Review: Prototype by M.D. Waters

Title: Prototype (Archetype #2)
Author: M.D. Waters
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Release date: July 24th 2014
Source: Edelweiss
Format: eARC
Reading level: Ages 18 and up

Rating: 4.5/5

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You can read my review of Archetype - here

The stunning debut that began with Archetype— and has readers buzzing—concludes in Prototype, when a woman’s dual pasts lock onto a collision course, threatening her present and future.

Emma looks forward to the day when she can let go of her past—both of them. After more than a year on the run, with clues to her parents’ whereabouts within her grasp, she may finally find a place to settle down. Start a new life. Maybe even create new memories with a new family.

But the past rises to haunt her and to make sure there’s nowhere on the planet she can hide. Declan Burke wants his wife back, and with a little manipulation and a lot of reward money, he’s got the entire world on his side. Except for the one man she dreads confronting the most: Noah Tucker.
Emma returns to face what she’s done but finds that the past isn’t the problem. It’s the present—and the future it represents. Noah has moved on and another woman is raising their daughter.

In the shocking conclusion to M.D. Waters’s spectacular debut, Emma battles for her life and her freedom, tearing down walls and ripping off masks to reveal the truth. She’s decided to play their game and prove she isn’t the woman they thought she was. Even if it means she winds up dead. Or worse, reborn.

I loved the first book of this brilliant adult duology and after that ending I needed to read its sequel immediately.

Prototype takes place a little more than a year since the events in Archetype and Emma's running of the men in her life, her past and she expects to find her parents so she can regain some normalcy and a family that can accept her, but what she isn´t expecting is that Declan will not give up on her and is willing to do anything to get her back, and she will not find a place on earth where she can hide, without someone alerting her whereabouts, and she will have no choice but to ask helps to the person she expected to never see again.

In this book we see a slightly different Emma as she finally knows who she really is and is trying to come to terms with this fact, besides she miss terrible the life that she could have had with Noah. Furthermore we see a stronger Emma and more determined to have a place in this world, regardless of the past, she´s a fighter. But besides Emma, Noah and Declan, we get to see a bit more of Foster a character that  we saw very little in the previous book, but also new characters are introduced like Leigh and Miles...I liked them a lot.

Prototype is an excellent sequel and conclusion of this fascinating and captivating series. Prototype is a fast-paced, action-packed and I loved the romance. I loved the ending!! I highly recommend this duology.

Review: Archetype by M.D. Waters

Title: Archetype (Archetype #1)
Author: M.D. Waters
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Release date: February 6th 2014
Reading level: Ages 18 and up

Rating: 5/5

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Introducing a breathtakingly inventive futuristic suspense novel about one woman who rebels against everything she is told to believe.

Emma wakes in a hospital, with no memory of what came before. Her husband, Declan, a powerful, seductive man, provides her with new memories, but her dreams contradict his stories, showing her a past life she can’t believe possible: memories of war, of a camp where girls are trained to be wives, of love for another man. Something inside her tells her not to speak of this, but she does not know why. She only knows she is at war with herself.

Suppressing those dreams during daylight hours, Emma lets Declan mold her into a happily married woman and begins to fall in love with him. But the day Noah stands before her, the line between her reality and dreams shatters.

In a future where women are a rare commodity, Emma fights for freedom but is held captive by the love of two men—one her husband, the other her worst enemy. If only she could remember which is which. . . .

The first novel in a two-part series, Archetype heralds the arrival of a truly memorable character—and the talented author who created her.

Set in a futuristic/dystopian world mixed with sci-fi, mystery, with romance, with a twist in the plot that was very interesting and unexpected. Archetype is a book that captivated me and left a very good impression on me.

The story of Archetype begins with Emma waking up in a hospital not knowing her name, knowing nothing about her past and not knowing the meaning of some words, but with the patience of Declan who claims to be her husband and Dr. Travista, whom is treating her, Emma slowly recovers from her accident. She lives for months in the hospital, under the scrutiny of Dr. Travista and constant visits from her husband Declan, but at night she has nightmares of scenarios she doesn´t know, a war and amidst all this there is a man which she can´t see but she knows is the man she loves, plus it has other puzzling dreams where she is trapped somewhere. Besides that inside her head there is a voice, "Her", which is telling her what to do and what she shouldn´t do but Emma does not always listen to her (this part reminded me a bit of the Host by Stephenie Meyer).

But what Emma doesn´t initially know is that she lives in a world where there are very few fertile women, so all women are concentrated in training centers until reaching their adulthood then they´re to be sold to husbands that can afford them. The women in this world are treated as possessions and gradually Emma will discover who she can trust and who she can´t.

This book is told from Emma´s POV, so most of the book we don´t know what´s really happening, or what´s real, and who is telling the truth, this is something I enjoy immensely! the mystery and suspense behind the identity of Emma, was very well handled. I really loved this book and I recommend it to dystopian and sci-fi fans.