I review: The Ice Twins – S.K. Tremayne

***/*****

There’s a fairly common sitcom plot where the characters don’t communicate an important fact or feeling and hilarity ensues from the misunderstanding. The viewer realizes afterward that the entire episode would not have happened if the characters had just spoken to each other. This whole book is like that.

Gus and Sarah have the perfect life. Perfect family. Perfect house. Perfect perfect perfect monozygotic twins with perfect blonde hair and perfect icy blue eyes. You hear? They’re perfect! Until one of the twins dies and a year later as they’re picking up their not so perfect anymore lives to move to a private island (seriously?), the surviving twin says she’s the twin that died (or is she or what is going on here?)

For some reason Gus and Sarah don’t have this little girl in therapy before this happens. Her identical twin sister has been dead for 14 months and she wasn’t in therapy!?!? What’s wrong with these people? They uproot a lonely girl who has just lost her identical twin and move to a private island?!? Everybody needed therapy!

The rest of the plot only happens because nobody talks to each other. Gus and Sarah each have their own secrets and theories and problems with the surviving twin and they don’t talk to each other about anything important. Just the dog and groceries basically. So if they had, maybe, discussed things this book would have been a lot shorter.

It was fast and it kept me interested on a frigid day in Chicago.  🙂