I've been courting more than one book at a time and it has really taken a toll on completing one book.
Her Fearful Symmetry is written by the author of The Time Traveler's Wife. I felt daunted knowing how much I LOVE her first book. However the two books are so different that I was able to stop comparing rather quickly.
Julia and Valentina are 20 year old American twins. Their lives are intertwined in an unnatural and somewhat perverse way. Sometimes it's like they are only a whole person when they are together.
Their mother (Edie) and aunt Elspeth) are also twins. As far as they can remember they have never met their mother's twin. Their contact with her begins upon her death. Elspeth leaves her London flat to the girls. Once they accept the stipulations set out by their dead aunt, deep secrets, bizarre desires, and twisted personal lives come flooding into the light.
Much of the book centers around London and Highgate cemetary which added a layer of gothic/romantic sadness.
I couldn't come to love Julia and Valentina, or Elspeth.......at times I disliked them for their deceit, desperate dependance, and sickening selfishness. My heart broke for Robert, Elspeth's left behind lover and for the quirky, charming upstairs neighbor (with extreme OCD) Martin.
On the other hand I loved the supernatural aspect, the cemetary, and finding out by the end that I didn't know what I thought I knew!
Rating 4 Didn't really love the characters but I did get into the story.
Rating PG13 sexual content, hauntings
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