This week I started and I’m about a third of the way through with “Identical” by Ellen Hopkins. So far, this book I think is the most confusing of the bunch (mostly because the main characters names are Kaeleigh and Raeanne and they’re kinda confusing at the beginning), but this is turning out to be very conflicting and climactic. Kaeleigh is pretty much “Mommy and Daddy’s perfect little angel” and does whatever she’s told. Like the teacher’s pet. However, there’s a darkside to this angel. She goes home and eats until she can’t eat anymore. This binging leads to depression and she begins cutting herself when she’s in the shower…and she likes it. Raeanne on the other hand, is the opposite of the angel. She is dating a guy she doesn’t even like, Mick, and does pot to get away from all the pain. They have loveless sex on an almost daily basis and she does whatever she feels like, pissing off who she wants to piss off, bitching out who she wants to bitch out. (this is a complete contradiction to the title, which is called “Identical”…which is the opposite of who the sisters actually are). If this wasn’t enough, the mother is running for office in California and she is never home. She is emotionally dead and doesn’t treat the daughters or husband with any love at all. The father is a drunk and drinks to get rid of the pain of not having a loving wife. He, however, takes joy in getting the love from another source…(i.e. Kaeleigh). This book has everything. Sibling and family rivalry, incest/rape, drugs, alcohol, sex, eating disorders…basically, a teenager’s nightmare. I love this book!
Ellen, you’re truly amazing!!
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