Published May 28th 2013
by Razorbill
ARC from Netgalley
Summary from Goodreads:
Can Tessa pose as Madison . . . and stop a killer before it’s too late?
Tessa is a Variant, able to absorb the DNA of anyone she touches and mimic their appearance. Shunned by her family, she’s spent the last two years training with the Forces with Extraordinary Abilities, a secret branch of the FBI. When a serial killer rocks a small town in Oregon, Tessa is given a mission: she must impersonate Madison, a local teen, to find the killer before he strikes again.
Tessa hates everything about being an impostor—the stress, the danger, the deceit—but loves playing the role of a normal girl. As Madison, she finds friends, romance, and the kind of loving family she’d do anything to keep. Amid action, suspense, and a ticking clock, this super-human comes to a very human conclusion: even a girl who can look like anyone struggles the most with being herself.
Tessa is a Variant, able to absorb the DNA of anyone she touches and mimic their appearance. Shunned by her family, she’s spent the last two years training with the Forces with Extraordinary Abilities, a secret branch of the FBI. When a serial killer rocks a small town in Oregon, Tessa is given a mission: she must impersonate Madison, a local teen, to find the killer before he strikes again.
Tessa hates everything about being an impostor—the stress, the danger, the deceit—but loves playing the role of a normal girl. As Madison, she finds friends, romance, and the kind of loving family she’d do anything to keep. Amid action, suspense, and a ticking clock, this super-human comes to a very human conclusion: even a girl who can look like anyone struggles the most with being herself.
Thoughts:
Impostor is ultimately about shapeshifters and teenage mutants who worked with the Forces with Extraordinary Abilities (FEA). At the center of the story is Tessa; a shapeshifter who was abandoned by her own mother before joining the FEA. As her first mission, Tessa is tasked with finding a serial killer by impersonating one of the victim.
It is interesting to see how Tessa cope by pretending to be someone else and although she struggled at first, Madison's family and friends welcome her with open arms. Tessa also finds herself unwittingly drawn to Devon who happens to be Madison's twin brother. I would have like it if their relationship is explored further but instead another fellow Variant; Alec is featured as her romantic interest. Alec was supposed to be involved with Kate who can read minds so it was annoying to read about him pining over Tessa in a not so subtle way every chance he got.
It also bothered me that Tessa sometimes get sidetracked from her mission and seemed to focused a lot of attention on the boys surrounding her. You would expect that a teen secret agent to be more in control of her emotions after all that years of training but Tessa's skills as a spy left a lot to be desired.
Verdict: 3 stars.
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