Book Review: The Twins by Mike Minicky
Title: The Twins
Author: Mike Minicky
Release date: May 11, 2022
Huge thanks to Mike for contacting me over on Instagram about checking out his debut novel, ‘The Twins.’
There’s always something engrossing and captivating about twins in dark fiction and in cinema. It’s a trope that can be done really, really well and many of those times where it succeeds is when you have innocent twins that are surrounded by worse and worse events or occurrences.
This is exactly what Mike offers us up and he does it with gusto.
What I liked: The book starts off in familiar territory. After receiving a horrible phone call telling them that their daughter is dead, two grandparents now become the guardians of their twin granddaughters.
Simple enough, right? Wrong.
Of course, this is a dark fiction book, so as soon as the twins arrive, bad things begin to happen and this is where Minicky really begins to let the story unravel. We get some really solid secondary characters and I loved seeing how they all had a key role in the events that occur.
As expected, Minicky at first keeps his cards close to his chest, not letting us see the extent to which the twins will go, but by the end, he lays them on the table and the reader is richly rewarded.
What I didn’t like: I don’t want this to sound overly negative, but Minicky doesn’t tread much new territory here. The book is fun, sure, but if you’ve recently read numerous stories featuring twins or sibling issues/connections, you may find this will feel more of the same.
Why you should buy this: For a debut novel, this is really, really solid. The characters are great and solid, the pacing really engaging and the story overall was really fun.
I wasn’t completely sure what I was in for when I dove into this one, but I was pleasantly surprised!
3/5
