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The Lost Girl by Sangu Mandanna
Designed to replace a girl she’s never met, a young "echo" must learn how to live someone else’s life—and decide who she really is. The Lost Girl is a quiet, haunting sci‑fi tale about love, autonomy, and the courage to become your own person.
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... a cloned girl questioning who she is beyond the life she was built to inhabit?
The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson
If you connected with Eva’s struggle to live as Amarra—training to mirror her mannerisms, stepping into her family in India, and constantly asking whether she’s more than a copy—then you’ll be riveted by Jenna’s piecing together of what was done to save her and what that means for her identity. Like Eva defying the Weavers’ rules to make choices of her own, Jenna tests the boundaries others set for her, searching for a self that isn’t just an assignment.
... the human cost and moral stakes of creating lives for others’ purposes?
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Eva’s existence depends on the Weavers’ harsh rules and the expectation that she’ll replace Amarra without complaint; Never Let Me Go explores a similarly chilling system that decides what clones are allowed to want. As Eva questions the right of her makers to dictate her future, Kathy and her friends quietly push against a fate designed for them, sharpening the same ethical edge that made The Lost Girl so haunting.
... a character-first speculative mystery that blurs reality while probing who we really are?
More Than This by Patrick Ness
Like Eva’s story, where the science of echoes stays in the background while her choices and relationships take center stage, More Than This uses its strange, possibly fabricated world to ask piercing questions about memory, love, and truth. If the way Eva navigates the Weavers’ manufactured life grabbed you, Seth’s search for what’s real—and who he is outside of others’ designs—will hit the same nerve.
... an intimate, day-by-day immersion into living someone else’s life and trying to love within the limits?
Every Day by David Levithan
Eva’s daily performance as Amarra—remembering friends’ names, fitting into family rituals, and facing the person who loved the original—echoes the way A wakes up in a new body every day and still tries to build a real connection. If you loved the close, personal lens of Eva’s life with Amarra’s family and the tenderness of a forbidden romance under impossible rules, this will speak to you.
... intense interior conflict where impossible circumstances force raw self-examination?
Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl
Eva’s voice in The Lost Girl is intensely inward—she weighs every rule from the Weavers, every moment with Amarra’s family, and every risk of claiming a self that isn’t sanctioned. Neverworld Wake traps its characters in a looping reality that strips away their defenses, delivering the same psychological pressure cooker that made Eva’s decisions feel so intimate and consequential.
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