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Written by: Ellen Hopkins
Narrated by: Laura Flanagan
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Kaeleigh and Raeanne are 16-year-old identical twins, the daughters of a district court judge father and politician mother running for U.S. Congress. Everything on the surface seems fine, but underneath run very deep and damaging secrets.

When the girls were nine, Daddy turned to his beloved Kaeleigh in ways a father never should. Raeanne needs to numb the pain of not being Daddy's favorite; Kaeleigh wants to do everything she can to feel something normal, even if it means cutting herself and vomiting after every binge.

How Kaeleigh and Raeanne figure out just what it means to be whole again when their entire world has been torn to shreds is the guts and heart of this powerful, disturbing, and utterly remarkable book.

©2008 Ellen Hopkins (P)2008 HighBridge Company Bullying & Abuse Depression & Mental Health Difficult Situations Family Family & Relationships Growing Up Literature & Fiction

What the critics say

"Hopkins' gift with free verse reaches new heights in this portrait of splintered identical twins.... Kaeleigh and Raeanne maintain distinct voices throughout as they wrestle with psychic damage and an astonishing, devastating realization. Sharp and stunning, with a brilliant final page." (Kirkus Reviews )

"Hopkins' verse is not only lean and sinuous, it also demonstrates a mastery of technique." (Publishers Weekly)
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This books is another typical Ellen Hopkins. Lots of raw teenage trauma. I have read every book she has written and this one does not disappoint, but I wish I had bought the paperback. The narrator is awful. There are so many random pauses that a few times I thought I had accidentally hit pause! The voices she uses for some of the characters are nothing short of obnoxious. I hope Ellen Hopkins has better luck with future narrators!

Buy the paperback!!

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This isn't a usual read for me. I really struggled with the narrator. the slow way she reads, the strange pauses, the inflections making half the sentences sound like questions, the accents, the men's voices, it was all horrendous. the story itself was ok.

terrible narrator

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