![]() ![]() Agent: Sarah Davies, Greenhouse Literary Agency. Is Lexi unreliable? Is Ava lying? Or is the truth more convoluted? Some readers may not make it far enough to find out, between sluggish pacing and the sisters’ sympathy-numbing self-absorption. The narrative is from Lexi’s point of view, and she claims to know nothing, as does Ava. A murder has happened, and the cops are involved, but more verbiage is devoted to the joys of eating at a food truck than to concern about the law. They were identical twins who made up a third twin to blame for their problems. ![]() A hundred pages in, Ava and Lexi are still hanging out, worrying about their outfits, about not getting into Stanford, and about who’s wearing the diamond-encrusted pendant tonight. Omololu In an average every day town lived Lexi and Ava. Like Omololu’s Transcendence, this contemporary thriller takes a long time to get going. They have a habit of slumming with lower-class dates, alternately pretending to be “Alicia,” an invented “third twin.” When one of those dates turns up dead, Alicia is implicated. Ava and Lexi are foundling identical twins, left on a restaurateur’s doorstep as infants and raised by their single father as members of the privileged California beach crowd. ![]()
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