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Old 10-16-2018, 02:39 PM   #152
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Yes. This.

When an author chooses something so out-there and so morally questionable as clones created specifically as a donor class, how can a reader not be primed to want details and explanations, even brief ones? A more mundane backdrop would not have been such a distraction.

And if there's going to be a lengthy and annoying information dump, it ought to provide more substance and answer more questions.
I found myself constantly thinking about that horrrible external society that the author implied. And—for me—the lack of any significant details about that dystopian world certainly annoyed me and took from the book.
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