Mystery/Thriller -- 1 1/2 stars
Twin girls, orphaned by the death of their parents, are taken in by their uber-rich grandmother who promptly ships them off to a tony boarding school where they are assigned a dormitory building being overseen by a young, handsome couple with two small children. One twin is studious, one twin is a party girl. Trouble ensues. Something I read compared this to Donna Tartt's The Secret History--an analogy that proved to be disappointingly wrong. Early in the book, I stopped and checked to see if this had been released as a YA book, because that's how it reads. (Not that I have anything against YA books..hello, Harry Potter.) This story is unoriginal, the writing unsophisticated, the dialogue unrealistic, the conflicts childish, the ending predictable. Finish that off with an epilogue so trite and sugarcoated as to put the reader in danger of a diabetic coma. To be fair, it seems to be getting good reactions on Amazon, but my opinion: read at your own risk.
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