Plot:
Sisters. Soulmates. Strangers.
Molly Raven lives a quiet, structured life in London, finding comfort in security and routine. Her identical twin Katie, living in New York, is the exact opposite: outgoing, spontaneous, and adventurous.
But when Molly hears that Katie has died, possibly murdered, she is thrown into unfamiliar territory. As terrifying as it is, she knows she must travel across the ocean and find out what happened. But as she tracks her twin’s final movements, cracks begin to emerge, and she slowly realizes her sister was not who she thought she was and there’s a dangerous web of deceit surrounding the two of them.
Review:
This plot ending was confusing and had me rewinding everything I had just read.
This is the story of identical twins – 22 year old KT (Katie, older by 3 minutes) and Molly Raven from London.
While they might look identical, their personalities are quite different. KT is confident, outgoing, a bit of a risk taker who excels at pretty much everything.
Molly is much more reserved, quieter, VERY paranoid actually and assesses the risks of every breathing activity before doing anything. Nevertheless they are very close and talk every day.
Until KT announces she is taking up a sponsorship to undertake her Masters degree in New York. Molly is naturally gutted but they continue to stay in close contact and Molly learns about KT’s exciting new life. All this time Molly continues to live her small life in England.
About 18 months later the Raven parents fly to New York to visit with KT for a week. Then Molly gets the phone call. Her sister is dead!
She must drop everything and hasten to New York.
That is when things get more complicated. While the parents arrange the funeral Molly goes into research mode to dissect every aspect of her sister’s life. Because she isn’t just dead, she has been murdered. There are a few suspects to choose from and Molly goes full on stalker to get close to them. Might she want to punish them for any perceived harm they caused her sister?
And this where it really gets weird! I can’t say any more without giving spoilers and it’s too delicious to ruin it for future readers.
I will say though that what you think is happening may be quite different to what is actually happening. The ending is quite shocking really but I did take off half a star because for a lot of the second half of the book I was not sure who was doing what to whom. And I’m not sure that the logic hung together 100%.
It was a gripping story.
Will Dean is an excellent story teller who brought his characters to life and the plotting and pacing were very good so thank you to your mum who took you to the mobile library when you where young and got you hooked on to reading. I love reading a bit about authors like this and what inspires them to make gripping reads. My first and won’t be my last by this author!
3.5/5 Stars
C’s La Vie 