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Book Review of Her Fearful Symmetry

Her Fearful Symmetry
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Helpful Score: 2


I had mixed feelings about this book.
It starts off with some seemingly unrelated stories that soon come together. The main plot is about a pair of twins (one dies in the very beginning), and the (US) twin daughters/nieces that inherit her London flat.

I like the author's writing style (and loved her previous book). What I didn't like about this story is that A) a number of times it suddenly jumps ahead a few weeks/months without any "warning or explanation, and you have to that figure out because the weather is different, or people "know" things they didn't before.
and B) there are some KEY decisions people make that just didn't make sense to me.
Not "the big secret", but ... why didn't she just leave? Why did ANYone agree with the plan? Especially the ones that did!? It just didn't make sense.