Sonya Mukherjee

I tore through the book this morning after getting it on my Kindle a week ago. From the very beginning I was hooked by the voice of the book: it's really fresh and down-to-earth. These are two girls who are exceptional in their situation, but they're still just like anybody else: raised in a small town in California, they have their own unique (and individual) dreams and desires.

Where the book shone, I think, was in the depiction of the town. It didn't go for the easy hooks and the easy plot points. There weren't mean girls and soul-crushing embarrassment. The characters didn't feel by-the-numbers, and the conflict felt like it arose from their individual desires and circumstances. And, in the end, there weren't easy answers, especially when it came to romance, but there was also plenty of hope, which is exactly, I think, why you read a book like this: in order to experience faith in other people and hope for our futures.… (mere)

I gave this book a 4.5 rating because it was interesting to see what life is like for conjoined twins, and how they do every day things. Its was a cool adaptation of two completely opposite people and the problems they run into with the ultimate idea of what to do after high school. One thing I didn't like about this book is how they didn't include how they probably would've gotten bullied in the real world, and in the book, it seems as if everyone at school likes them.

The book starts out with them setting up the story by each of them listing off the things you can and can't do when being a conjoined twin, and well as the struggles and ups and downs.They then begin to explain how they are complete opposites of each other. Hailey, the pink-haired extrovert who loves painting and exploring, and Clara, they shy blonde girl who loves everything to do with astronomy. Clara is convinced she'll never leave the town, until she meets the new kid Max. She then discovers he is an aspiring astronomer as well. Hailey then develops a crush on this kid named Alek, and she ends up asking him to the Sadie Hawkins dance, and he says yes. Clara overhears Max saying man things about the twins after they formed a bond,and is crushed. She then talks to Max and clears things up. Hailey gets an internship to go to San francisco to an art school, and ends up not going because of Clara. In the end the girls learn how to dance and face their fears by doing it in front of the whole school.… (mere)