I first heard about this book was after I finished reading “The Time Traveller’s Wife” because they are both written by the same author: Audrey Niffenegger When I started reading the first few pages, I was a bit put off because I wasn’t sure if the storyline was going to be viable: if it was a bit too abstract but the way Niffenegger goes about describing Elispeth’s plight and struggle to regain her consciousness, gives the story a realistic twist which makes it not so incomprehensible.
As the story goes on, you begin to understand the twins different personalities more, which seems to hit on the real-life problems that twins face: that they are not the same person even though they are identical, especially mirror-twins.
Without trying to give to much away, I feel the ending of the book was a bit rushed and left open a lot of questions which rather then leave us to our own imaginations to decide what happened, would have been better if Niffenegger explained a bit of what happened to us: what happened to Valentina? Julia? Elspeth? Also I believe Martin should have had a more active role in what was happening, his story-line felt a tad unnecessary, like he was only put there to add depth to the characters and hit on a social problem of reality.
Overall, I thought this was an interesting book to read, I liked how Niffenegger lead us through different characters lives and how they all intermingled into each other. It was an insightful book to read for people that like books which are based on realistic lives with a bit of the unexplained thrown in.
