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 The city of Kersh is a safe haven, but the price of safety is high. Everyone has a genetic Alternate--a twin raised by another family--and citizens must prove their worth by eliminating their Alts before their twentieth birthday. Survival means advanced schooling, a good job, marriage--life. 
 Fifteen-year-old West Grayer has trained as a fighter, preparing for the day when her assignment arrives and she will have one month to hunt down and kill her Alt. But then a tragic misstep shakes West's confidence. Stricken with grief and guilt, she's no longer certain that she's the best version of herself, the version worthy of a future. If she is to have any chance of winning, she must stop running not only from her Alt, but also from love . . . though both have the power to destroy her. 
 I really wanted to enjoy this book. Dualed has an interesting premise and it's set in a dystopian society that is my preferred genre. Unfortunately, it just didn't meet expectations. It falls into the category of ya dystopian fiction where it lacks strong world building. 
 Dualed begins with a good first chapter. Giving the reader just enough information to keep them interested. But that's where I struggled to keep focus, constantly finding myself setting the book down. I never truly grasped the world this was set in. I couldn't picture my surroundings which I think is key to a dystopian novel. 
 I didn't find the characters in Dualed to be engaging and never connected to them. There is plenty of action to keep the pages turning. In fact, that's almost all there is. To the point of becoming repetitive and monotonous. In the end, the final showdown was just another anti-climactic fight. 
 Overall, Dualed failed to meet my expectations. The lack of world building combined with mundane characters left me disappointed. In general, my feelings for Dualed are meh. I'm not interested in pursuing the sequel.