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Synopsis:

After their parents divorced, 10-year-old twins Emmy and Iris were split up–Emmy lived with Dad, Iris with Mom. Now, after a tragic accident takes their mom’s life, the twins are reunited and Iris moves in with Emmy and their dad. Devastated over Mom’s death, Iris spends the first few weeks in almost total silence–the only person she will speak to is Emmy. Iris feels her life is over and she doesn’t know what to do. Emmy promises her twin that she can share her life now. After all, they’re sisters. Twins.

It’s a promise that Iris takes seriously. And before long, Emmy’s friends, her life at school, and her boyfriend, Tyler, fall under Iris’s spell. Slowly, Emmy realizes she’s being pushed out of her own life. But she’s just being paranoid, right? And Mom’s accident was . . . just an accident. Right? It’s not like she–or Dad–or Tyler–are in any danger. .

Review:

The Twin is one of those books that has you drawn in from the first page, which is done by not only a great plot but also by such mesmerising writing.

I found myself completely immersed and invested in Ivy’s life. You can’t help but feel sorry for Ivy and have that instant need to stand up, protect her and honestly hope that everything goes her way. Ivy recently lost her mother, who she was particularly close to and admired, even though Ivy was living with her father at the time of her mother’s passing. A bombshell is dropped on Ivy’s life as her identical twin Iris enters her life after the tragedy strikes.

In the time of grief you would hope that the twins, Iris and Ivy would bound and grieve together, but it doesn’t appear that way. Iris refused to acknowledge the passing of their mum or even go back to her old home and gather her belongings, which makes it harder for Ivy to connect with her sister but also doesn’t her bear with the loss of her mother. It begs the question of who is Iris? What is her intention and what is she planning?

Though Iris is extremely hard to like, you have to marvel at the attention to detail that Preston put into this character and the writing that helped convince you that something is up with Iris and you instantly have to ban with Ivy throughout the book.

Again, you feel sorry for Ivy. Such a heartbroken character that gets defeated at every turn, with even her friends turning against her with jealousy over the smallest things. It soon becomes clear that Iris is trying to take down Ivy at every turn.

The Twin was a delightful read from the first chapter to the last and is a book that I’m sticking back on the TBR pile to reread again. I loved this book and how brilliantly written it was. I cannot wait to see what else Preston has written and what else she is going to write. Overall I highly recommend this book, I couldn’t put it down!

Rating: 5/5

Publisher: Random House

ISBN: 9780593124963