LitPick Review
In The Twin's Daughter, by Lauren Baratz-Logsted, Lucy Sexton lives a very comfortable life with her attractive parents. Very surprisingly, her mother, Aliese, one day has a visitor, a woman who claims to be her sister and Lucy's aunt. She does, in fact, very much resemble Lucy's mother. Aunt Helen, as she becomes known to Lucy, moves into the house and begins to be educated, as she had previously been quite poor. Her skills progress remarkably, until she cannot be easily distinguished from her twin. Lucy has a few surprises when she mistakes one twin for the other. Shockingly, one of the twins is brutally murdered. Lucy wonders which one it was, and why.
Opinion:
The Twin's Daughter was a very interesting and well- written book. The plot was, thankfully, somewhat original, and the characters were believable. Lucy's confusion over the identity of the murdered twin was quite understandable and expected. The book was sufficiently entertaining and managed to hold the reader's attention. Lucy's jealousy over her potential husband, Kit's, feelings reasonable. While Lucy seemed a bit modern-minded for the time-period, readers will be able to relate to her feelings concerning marriage and societal constraints.
