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The Girl in the Mirror by Rose Carlyle
2.0

This might be the unpopular opinion because I've seen a lot of people write rave reviews about this book, but I did not love it. I found it predictable and drawn out at times. The beginning was a nice build up of Summer and Iris's characters, and the last few chapters had the most excitement, but the middle moved so slow. I just wanted to something to happen.

The author did a nice job of writing Summer and Iris, but I felt like she didn't put a lot of time into the other characters. Adam was so one dimensional. All of the characters were so unlikable and down right nasty except for the twins' brother, Ben. He was really the only character I liked, but wasn't in the book enough. The author also wrote a lot of technical terms about sailing which I do not think helped the story. It actually took something away from it for me. There was a big twist at the end which was nice, but I could totally see it coming.

There was a TV show a few years ago called Ringer that starred Sarah Michelle Gellar as twin sisters and was a very similar premise to this book. It was hard not to compare the two while reading.

Overall, this wasn't for me, but as I mentioned above, a lot of people really loved this one so if it sounds interesting to you give it a go!