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The Ice Twins
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As a mother of identical twins there is so much I hate about this book I don't even know where to start.
I didn't like the way it was written (largely from the perspective of the mother, in first person present, with occasional chapters in third person describing the husband's point of view) - lately I am just sick of thrillers which derive their thrill from having answers hidden from the reader because they are hidden from the narrator due to some sort of deficit. So you get a droning, self-conscious internal monologue which gives you half a picture until it becomes necessary for the truth to be revealed, at which point the protagonist is suddenly able to access the information that has been withheld.
As for not being able to tell one twin from the other. Do people really believe that? I mean other people find it hard to tell my identical boys apart but there is no way I could mistake one for the other. All that stuff about them looking exactly the same, smelling the same, having the same voice, having the same handwriting, is just guff. They are two different people! It doesn't even come across as if the mother is trying to talk herself into believing it, which at least would offer some sort of explanation.
And the final big reveal - are we meant to believe that too? It was over complicated and just bloody ridiculous to think that the people in question would behave in that way.
This is going in the naughty corner with Before I Go To Sleep and Girl On The Train.
I didn't like the way it was written (largely from the perspective of the mother, in first person present, with occasional chapters in third person describing the husband's point of view) - lately I am just sick of thrillers which derive their thrill from having answers hidden from the reader because they are hidden from the narrator due to some sort of deficit. So you get a droning, self-conscious internal monologue which gives you half a picture until it becomes necessary for the truth to be revealed, at which point the protagonist is suddenly able to access the information that has been withheld.
As for not being able to tell one twin from the other. Do people really believe that? I mean other people find it hard to tell my identical boys apart but there is no way I could mistake one for the other. All that stuff about them looking exactly the same, smelling the same, having the same voice, having the same handwriting, is just guff. They are two different people! It doesn't even come across as if the mother is trying to talk herself into believing it, which at least would offer some sort of explanation.
And the final big reveal - are we meant to believe that too? It was over complicated and just bloody ridiculous to think that the people in question would behave in that way.
This is going in the naughty corner with Before I Go To Sleep and Girl On The Train.
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Nov 10, 2015 10:56AM
Just reading the blurb, my instant thought was, "ummmm... the MOTHER couldn't tell her own daughters apart?" Not likely. I dated an identical twin. I could have differentiated them blindfolded by their smells alone, and I'm not their MOTHER. Dumb dumb dumb.
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I agree with both of you. As a mother of identical twin boys, I could tell them apart before they were two years old. I think if I'm ever going to read this book I'm going to have to suspend belief big time.
