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This is such a different book than I'd normally pick up and I can't even say what drew me to it. I should have reviewed it as soon as I finished but with being so busy the past three or four days I haven't been able to update and review like I usually do.
When I first started The Twin's Daughter I was impressed with the storyline but the actual voice sounded strained at best. I went back and forth between thinking it sounded strained to think it sounded fake. Kind of like if someone asked ...more This is such a different book than I'd normally pick up and I can't even say what drew me to it. I should have reviewed it as soon as I finished but with being so busy the past three or four days I haven't been able to update and review like I usually do.
When I first started The Twin's Daughter I was impressed with the storyline but the actual voice sounded strained at best. I went back and forth between thinking it sounded strained to think it sounded fake. Kind of like if someone asked me to speak like a woman in 1920's England for example. I could try. But I would not succeed. As time went on I either changed my mind or got used to it and I'm still not sure which is was exactly.
I'm going back and forth on so many different things. Part of me feels there were parts that didn't stay true to the time period in which the story takes place, even though we don't know what period it was.
The ending..... surprised me. I think. I went back and forth with that too. :) A big part of me thinks it's totally unrealistic to believe the main character didn't know if this woman was her Mother or not. Maybe some instances I can buy that, from afar or from the back if the women were truly identical. But so up close and over time? That was hard for me to swallow to say the least. I ended up buying it by the end though. I'm not sure if that's a testemant to Lauren Baratz-Logsted's or because I so badly wanted to believe it so the story wouldn't have a crack in it for me.
I have to say this also, I don't exactly consider this 'historical-fiction' and think by sticking it in such a genre that it'll lose readers. Readers so judge a book by genre. I'm also not very sure I'd agree that this is 'young adult' - does a main character under the age of 18 make a book YA? Not to me. I didn't really see anything YA here. I don't meant to say it's only for adults, I don't remember anything I wouldn't want a teen reading, but it's not YA. IMO.
I'll definitely read another book by the author - I think she's one that will only get better with time!
~~~POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!~~~
~~~POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!~~~
This is such a different book than I'd normally pick up and I can't even say what drew me to it. I should have reviewed it as soon as I finished but with being so busy the past three or four days I haven't been able to update and review like I usually do.
When I first started The Twin's Daughter I was impressed with the storyline but the actual voice sounded strained at best. I went back and forth between thinking it sounded strained to think it sounded fake. Kind of like if someone asked ...more This is such a different book than I'd normally pick up and I can't even say what drew me to it. I should have reviewed it as soon as I finished but with being so busy the past three or four days I haven't been able to update and review like I usually do.
When I first started The Twin's Daughter I was impressed with the storyline but the actual voice sounded strained at best. I went back and forth between thinking it sounded strained to think it sounded fake. Kind of like if someone asked me to speak like a woman in 1920's England for example. I could try. But I would not succeed. As time went on I either changed my mind or got used to it and I'm still not sure which is was exactly.
I'm going back and forth on so many different things. Part of me feels there were parts that didn't stay true to the time period in which the story takes place, even though we don't know what period it was.
The ending..... surprised me. I think. I went back and forth with that too. :) A big part of me thinks it's totally unrealistic to believe the main character didn't know if this woman was her Mother or not. Maybe some instances I can buy that, from afar or from the back if the women were truly identical. But so up close and over time? That was hard for me to swallow to say the least. I ended up buying it by the end though. I'm not sure if that's a testemant to Lauren Baratz-Logsted's or because I so badly wanted to believe it so the story wouldn't have a crack in it for me.
I have to say this also, I don't exactly consider this 'historical-fiction' and think by sticking it in such a genre that it'll lose readers. Readers so judge a book by genre. I'm also not very sure I'd agree that this is 'young adult' - does a main character under the age of 18 make a book YA? Not to me. I didn't really see anything YA here. I don't meant to say it's only for adults, I don't remember anything I wouldn't want a teen reading, but it's not YA. IMO.
I'll definitely read another book by the author - I think she's one that will only get better with time!
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