Project Cain
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This dark, literary thriller is a story about blood: specifically, the DNA of the world's most notorious serial killers, captured and cloned by the Department of Defense to develop a new "breed” of bio-weapons. The program is now in Stage Three—with dozens of young male clones from age ten to eighteen kept and monitored at a private facility without any realization of who they really are. Some are treated like everyday kids. Others live prescribed lives to replicate the upbringing of their DNA donors. All wonder why they can't remember their lives before age ten.
When security is breached and the most dangerous boys are set free by the now-insane scientist who created them, only one young man can help find the clones before their true genetic nature grows even more horrific than the original models: a fifteen-year-old boy, an every-boy...who has just learned that he is the clone of Jeffrey Dahmer.
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As I have a thing for serial killers, I had incredibly high expectations when starting Project Cain. I mean - the plot had so much potential. The book basically tells the story from Cain's Blood (which I haven't read) from Jeff's point of view. Jeff's the clone of famous serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer and meets Castillo, a man we get no real information about. Together, they're trying to find all the other serial killer's clones (such as Ted Bundy and Albert Fish). As I already said - this story had potential. But in the end, the book was really, really disappointing. First of, I didn't like Girard's writing style (could he please stop using CAPS that often?). For me, it was the attempt to sound like a 16 year old (because Jeff's 16yo) gone horribly wrong. Secondly, the characters are really flat and boring. Due to the fact that there is no dialogue at all throughout the entire book, it feels like Jeff having a monologue, which is rather annyoing because he's constatly moaning (don't get me wrong, I'd moan and get mad myself when figuring out that I'm a serial killer's clone, but all Jeff did was talking about his dad, ugh!). Plus we know nothing about Jeff's personality. Or Castillo's. Or anyone's, actually. In the end, I was asking myself why Girard had the urge to tell this story. It's - boring. And it's incredibly hard to follow the plot because Jeff's way of telling the story is rather confusing. On a positive note though, the book provided loads of interesting facts and figures. Personally, I enjoy learning stuff and therefore I really liked the informativ part of the book. I actually can't remember doing so much research by myself while reading a book. (I literally looked up every single serial killer mentioned in Project Cain as well as the scientists and projects they talked about. I learnt quite a lot through this book). As I think Castillo's the most interesting character in this book (if 'interesting' means 'not as boring as everybody else'), I'm most probably going to read Cain's Blood one day because I'm curios if we're going to learn more about Castillo and the clones and read the whole story from another point of view.
Description
This dark, literary thriller is a story about blood: specifically, the DNA of the world's most notorious serial killers, captured and cloned by the Department of Defense to develop a new "breed” of bio-weapons. The program is now in Stage Three—with dozens of young male clones from age ten to eighteen kept and monitored at a private facility without any realization of who they really are. Some are treated like everyday kids. Others live prescribed lives to replicate the upbringing of their DNA donors. All wonder why they can't remember their lives before age ten.
When security is breached and the most dangerous boys are set free by the now-insane scientist who created them, only one young man can help find the clones before their true genetic nature grows even more horrific than the original models: a fifteen-year-old boy, an every-boy...who has just learned that he is the clone of Jeffrey Dahmer.
Book Information
Posts
As I have a thing for serial killers, I had incredibly high expectations when starting Project Cain. I mean - the plot had so much potential. The book basically tells the story from Cain's Blood (which I haven't read) from Jeff's point of view. Jeff's the clone of famous serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer and meets Castillo, a man we get no real information about. Together, they're trying to find all the other serial killer's clones (such as Ted Bundy and Albert Fish). As I already said - this story had potential. But in the end, the book was really, really disappointing. First of, I didn't like Girard's writing style (could he please stop using CAPS that often?). For me, it was the attempt to sound like a 16 year old (because Jeff's 16yo) gone horribly wrong. Secondly, the characters are really flat and boring. Due to the fact that there is no dialogue at all throughout the entire book, it feels like Jeff having a monologue, which is rather annyoing because he's constatly moaning (don't get me wrong, I'd moan and get mad myself when figuring out that I'm a serial killer's clone, but all Jeff did was talking about his dad, ugh!). Plus we know nothing about Jeff's personality. Or Castillo's. Or anyone's, actually. In the end, I was asking myself why Girard had the urge to tell this story. It's - boring. And it's incredibly hard to follow the plot because Jeff's way of telling the story is rather confusing. On a positive note though, the book provided loads of interesting facts and figures. Personally, I enjoy learning stuff and therefore I really liked the informativ part of the book. I actually can't remember doing so much research by myself while reading a book. (I literally looked up every single serial killer mentioned in Project Cain as well as the scientists and projects they talked about. I learnt quite a lot through this book). As I think Castillo's the most interesting character in this book (if 'interesting' means 'not as boring as everybody else'), I'm most probably going to read Cain's Blood one day because I'm curios if we're going to learn more about Castillo and the clones and read the whole story from another point of view.