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Her Fearful Symmetry

Audrey Niffenegger

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Oct 12, 2024 Maggie Shanley rated it really liked it

Shelves: stephen-king-s-recommendations

If you like books that are different and a bit unpredictable, then this is the book for you. It was a fun spooky read for October and a bit crazy. It is the story of two sets of twin sisters, life as a ghost and the men who love the sisters. Julia and Valentina are twins, Julia is the stronger of the two. Valentina is asthmatic. They find out that they have inherited a flat in London from their mom's twin sister. In London, the flat adjoins Highgate Cemetery and seems the perfect setting for gho ...more

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Jul 03, 2014 JoAnne rated it did not like it · review of another edition

I do not think I will ever read this author again. I was unsatisfied by this book. I hated the ending, which really was not an ending. The story just stopped. It's a story about a set of twins that had a falling out and years later, one of the women got cancer and left her home and money to her sister's twin daughters. the younger women had to live in her home for a year to receive the inheritance. The younger twins had the same problems as the older twins, their aunt and mother. One wants to al ...more

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Oct 15, 2016 Susan rated it did not like it

Shelves: 2016, no-no-no

I did not enjoy this book. It was just not believable. Here, I do not refer to the paranormal parts; if you read a book like this then you must somewhat suspend skepticism about the paranormal aspects, and I often do enjoy books with these elements. No, what I mean is 'who does that?!?' in the sense that the behaviours of the characters just did not make sense.

Additionally, and perhaps because they were so unbelievable, I never connected with the characters and actively disliked most of them. N ...more

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