Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for allowing me to review this book. I am giving an honest review in exchange.
I was so excited to see this book on Netgalley. I really like Sarah Fine and have enjoyed her other series. Uncanny took me a little by surprise. At first, I thought "this is not for me", but I kept reading and next thing I knew I had read the whole book. Cora is a unexpectedly difficult character to like. She is so unsure of herself, but that became what I liked about her throughout the book. Sarah Fine has brought an unexpected and captivating young adult novel to readers. I will be recommending this book to many of the YA readers I know.

What drew me in to UNCANNY was the stunning cover. That, plus the description, made it seem like a book I'd love. Unfortunately, I never really connected with it and had to stop over halfway through. (I skimmed through the rest to see the outcome.) As wonderful as Fine's writing is, I really couldn't stand the characters within the store -- everyone except for Rafiq, that is. Even with everything that is revealed later on, I just couldn't connect to any of them and it felt like a chore to read.

Still, that doesn't mean this is a bad book by any means. In fact, I'd still recommend it to plenty of readers because it's such a fascinating premise and Fine's writing is great. It just wasn't for me.

I find the title of this book particularly well found, because this book was strange, disturbing and clearly Uncanny. We follow Cora, who has just lost her sister Hannah, she has no recollection of the night when she died, in parallel, we saw some flashbacks about the relationship between the two sisters and the latter was not always beautiful.

What is interesting is precisely this relationship, it is unhealthy in my eyes and we realize that everything could have happened on the night of Hannah's death, the author succeeds in maintaining a constant doubt and the resolution will be revealed only in the last chapters. I passed my reading wanting to know what happened, to discover these two sisters with characters so different, their past and the strangeness of what binds them. For this particular point, the book is very successful.

Another important point, the context of the book, the latter takes place in the future, and there is a whole issue around surveillance, freedom and artificial intelligences, besides one of the key figures is an AI, and I loved this character, but I will say no more about it. This context works perfectly for the plot and it is also a point that I liked.

So I loved this book, it managed to hook me in it plotwists and if you like thrillers this book will strongly please you.

This book took me through the ringer. I honestly wasn't expecting to enjoy this book as much as I did, not because it did not sound awesome but because I have never read a book like this before. I was blown away by the idea behind this book and the emotions that I was going through reading this was intense. I was not really sure who I should be rooting for Hannah or Cora? mom or dad? The way this story played out was such a twist and turn through the pages that I was not ready for it to end. What an amazing job Sarah Fine. Thank you NetGalley and Sarah Fine for allowing me to read and give an honest review of this book.