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Katherine A. Applegate: The pretender (Paperback, 1998, Scholastic) 4 stars

"Someone's looking for Tobias. Someone who says she's his long-lost cousin. Tobias isn't sure the …

Review of 'The pretender' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

Tobias tries to decide how to be himself & whether that means being human, hawk, or a strange mix of both. The Tobias/Rachel storyline is developing in a really cool way, w/some things said explicitly instead of heavily implied.

The layers of deception and pretense are very thick. The titles usually work on several levels, but wow, this one does a lot. There are tricks, traps, pseudonyms, several kinds of impostor syndrome...