Waiting on Wednesday #5

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine.

There are so many great new titles out there, still waiting to be release, that it’s pretty hard to pick just one. Especially when most of them are wild new dystopians (I think I’m about to go on another one of my dystopian sprees, so expect a lot of reviews of books in that genre). This week, I’ve picked an upcoming dystopian to spotlight: Beta, which release October 16^th.

In a world constructed to absolute perfection, imperfection is difficult to understand—and impossible to hide.

Elysia is a clone, created in a laboratory, born as a sixteen year old girl, an empty vessel with no life experience to draw from. She is a Beta, an experimental model of teenaged clone. She was replicated from another teenage girl, who had to die in order for Elysia to be created.

Elysia's purpose is to serve the inhabitants of Demesne, an island paradise for the wealthiest people on earth. Everything about Demesne is bioengineered for perfection. Even the air there induces a strange, euphoric high that only the island's workers—soulless clones like Elysia—are immune to.

At first, Elysia's new life on this island paradise is idyllic and pampered. But she soon sees that Demesne's human residents, the most privileged people in the world who should want for nothing, yearn. And, she comes to realize that beneath its flawless exterior, there is an undercurrent of discontent amongst Demesne's worker clones. She knows she is soulless and cannot feel and should not care—so why are overpowering sensations clouding Elysia's mind?

If anyone discovers that Elysia isn't the unfeeling clone she must pretend to be, she will suffer a fate too terrible to imagine. When Elysia's one chance at happiness is ripped away from her with breathtaking cruelty, emotions she's always had but never understood are unleashed. As rage, terror, and desire threaten to overwhelm her, Elysia must find the will to survive.

[Description from Goodreads]

Sounds like it’s going to be a good one, right? I haven’t read any of Rachel’s other books, but I still can’t wait to get my hands on this one! What are you waiting on this Wednesday? Comment or leave a link below!