Review: Wakers

Wakers by Orson Scott Card
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Laz has just woken up and found himself in a cloning facility.  No one else is around, except a girl who is still in her cloning pod.  He has memories of his life but doesn’t know why he has been cloned or who woke him up.  Laz also can move into the consciousness of himself in a parallel world.  He has memories of doing it “before,” yet him being alone in an abandoned world cannot be fixed with any side-stepping.  Laz thinks that the girl in the other pod will be the answer to why they are left alone.

Wakers is a stand-alone science fiction novel that was unique without being confusing.  There were a lot of scientific theories embedded throughout the story, yet it wasn’t enough science to distract readers who didn’t fully understand them.  The post-apocalyptic story was far-fetched and completely possible at the same time.  Card created characters that were easy to relate to and I found myself wishing the book would read a little faster because I wanted to know how it was going to end.  A fun read that might be a good start for a new sci-fi reader. 

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