The Ice Twins - anyone read it? (spoilers)

I read a little and then tossed it. Utter bilge.

Glad I wasnt the only one who wasn't a fan of the book. I thought it started well enough but it wasn't fast paced enough; several things were raised in the beginning and it never felt like you found out the answers properly. Think if it had been written better/differently and I would have been hooked.

oh wow
this has popped up on the Amazon recommended for you thing and doesn't appeal

but with regards to the OP, yes, I have met a couple of women who have their Tindr sex partners round while their kids are in bed. (they are not friends!) I gently suggested that this was unsafe and they looked at me like I was mad.

It was dreadful dont anyone waste their money on it

Oh, I'm totally confused with all these sister/twins books out at the moment. They're either being switched once or twice at birth or later on - or they are combining body parts from the two of them to make a third version.

Maybe a BBC drama in a few parts?

All the way through I kept thinking that the author had written a film, rather than a book. It wasn't great as a book, but would probably be a good creepy movie.

It was okay, until the denouement, which was laughably bad.

Yes they were very rare totally identical twins. No difference whatsoever.

There was some kind of scientific (or 'scientific' perhaps) explanation for the identicalness of the twins that went beyond the norm, wasn't there? No clue what, and a quick google hasn't turned up anything either.

In *new photos, I mean, that their mother posts on FB.

That is strange Clawdy. I used to nanny for a set of identical twins. I haven't seen them in person in a decade but I can still tell them apart in photos with a glance.

I hated the explanation for the girl's death.

It felt to me just as 3point has described it, this is what you get if you dare to misbehave.

And I really couldn't see how she forgot all about it either.

It was gripping in a sense but the ending was totally ridiculous.

That said, it could potentially make a bit of an eerie film if done right.

I think the change in character personality was intentional. I don't think you are really meant to 'get' them, I think that's a huge part of the story. It keeps you wondering what is going on and just who is at fault

It wasn't just the bit where she has sex with the kids running around,that was ridiculous,I agree, but even more improbable was parents not knowing the difference between their twins. We have identical twins in my family,and there is always a difference, a little mole or freckle or difference in teeth. Totally silly idea.

It started off really well, really chilling, so it kept me grippped, but the ending was disappointing, just daft, as pps said. I'm not even really clear on the identity of the twins at the end (not sure the author was either!)

I agree it was ludicrous. There was one scene I felt was very real - where the little girl went up to another child in the playground ( I think pushed by her mother) and tried to talk to them and got ignored.

The writing was bizarre at times - I think she describes someone's hair as 'Jewish' !

I enjoyed it but I hated the ending.
I felt like it was one of those 'cop-out' endings. Just to make sure you knew you'd read a 'creepy' book.

Apart from that, it was atmospheric and I did feel anguish at some of things going on, like the daughter being unable to make friends at school and losing the perfect life you had. Well as much as anyone can through a book.

Possibly twice? Tell me more.

This is like when I see trailers for horror movies that look vaguely intriguing...I know I don't really want to see them, but I DO want to know what happens. :o

CheerfulYank - the twins were switched - possibly twice. And yes, the book is as crap as others have said.

Although I did read it to the end which I wouldn't do if it was really Total Crap.

Utter dross.

So...were the twins switched or not?

Some of the worst character development I've ever come across. Personality transplants every 10 pages.
I have a policy never to give up on a book. So I kept going to bed early with my Kindle just to be rid of this one.

I have a copy of The Ice Twins (second hand) waiting for me to read it. MIL read it, said she couldn't understand it (?), gave it to DH who read it and said it was ok-ish. Not feeling encouraged to rush to read it :o

I can't remember much of it

• she was shagging someone she should not have been shagging and the children saw them (?) One of the twins fell out a window but it couldn't have been the window which she supposedly fell from but one on the storey above. I can't remember now why the mistaken identity arose but it had something to do with the windows being wrong.

Believe me that garbled synopsis makes it sound far more interesting than it is.