OH my freaking god. Today I finished reading Identical by Ellen Hopkins and all I can say about it is that I was speechless for about 10 minutes. Sarah and Amanda will be my honest witnesses when I say this, when I read the huge twist at the end, I went nuts and I was like, shaking. I didn’t believe that a book could ever give me feelings of such…I don’t even know…it gave the “OH MY GOD” factor a whole new level. So without giving away too much, there are these twin girls that look exactly alike and everyone things they are so perfect since they come from a political family. But in retrospect, the girls are far from perfect. One of them binges and purges all food when she feels sad and cuts herself with her razor when she’s in the shower to “feel” anything. The other sister is addicted to drugs and sex. Kind of exact opposites, actually. So basically as this book goes on, you learn more about the family and their dysfunction as a family. The mother is never home as she is active in the government (and eventually wins the election as governor of California) and the father drinks more and more to fill the hole that the mother has left in his heart. He turns to the daughter for sex and abuse. This causes her to eat more and to cut herself more. The other sister falls in love with her history teacher and tries to get him in the sack, which doesn’t work. At the end of the book you learn that the twins are actually one person with schizophrenia and they actually believe that they are separate people. This twist made me blow my top and say really loudly in class (and I’m surprised if Mr. Cheng didn’t hear me) “HOLY SHIT!!”. It made Manda and Sarah laugh, but I was really embarrassed. Good book! Time to start Crank tomorrow…
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