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Beside Myself

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This book is very well written and is good read. Kept me engaged through the whole book. Not what you would think would happen at such a young age!

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This was an engrossing portrayal of mental illness, and a different take on the overall disease. I liked the characters and they were portrayed well. It definitely made me think about this a few times during the read. I enjoyed Morgan's writing.

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This novel is kind of a wacko psychological drama about identical twins who swap places as a game at a young age, but then the one who was considered the troubled one refuses to switch back with the one who is the good girl, and no one believes the good girl who wants to switch back. Alternates between their childhood and beyond, with the present day when one of the twins is quite mentally ill (seems maybe to be both manic depressive and schizophrenic?). It is quite hard to rate this book - for around the first half, I hated it's unrelenting darkness and creepiness so much I actually considered stopping reading it, which I never do. But somewhere along the way, I got totally sucked in and couldn't put it down. But I still find it preposterous that not only did seemingly no one notice such that they never switched back, but also that other people's perceptions/expectations would be enough to make one twin pull it together while the other one falls apart for the rest of her life. 2.5 stars.

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