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Summary: Destiny Separated Them
Review: Mary Lee lived very happy with her parents and twin sister, Madrigal, until her parents decide to send her to boarding school. There, she lives in total melancholy. She misses her sister too much. Soon, Madrigal goes visit her and accidentally dies. Mary Lee usurpates Madrigal's life saying that "Mary Lee" was the one who died. Mary Lee (as Madrigal) goes back home. Soon she realizes that her sister was not what she imagined. She was very different from her.
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Summary: Not Good enough for Ms. Cooney
Review: The plot of this book is so confusing & unrealistic. Two twins are separated by their parents. Mary Lee is sent to boarding school and Madrigal gets to stay home. Mary Lee thinks her sister is so great but she doesn't even really Know her5. Madrigal comes and visits and dies. But they switched places so everyone thinks Mary Lee died. This book was hard to follow and you really didn't understand why the characters did what they did. Like why Mary Lee didn't know about Madrigal's secret life even when they went to the same school? And why exactly did her parents decide to just suddenly separate the sisters? Ms. Cooney has written better. Read: the Face on the Milk Carton Series, Losing Christina books, etc.
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Summary: Odd, only in the worst way possible
Review: There are books that grab you for being peculiar and odd, hence Francesca Lia Block's continuously smooth-flowing lyrical threads that make up her books. That is the whimsical kind of odd, the kind that can often be beatiful.Then there is the type of odd that just makes you ask yourself, and the author, "What the f***?" TWINS, I am sorry to say, falls into this category. I read it a few years ago and reread it recently, thinking I might perhaps change my mind about its level of suckiness. But no, my mindset and opinion of TWINS did not change. It still sucks beyond sucking. The world's best editor would see the task of mending and re-phrasing this story as an impossible one indeed. I like Caroline B. Cooney's work. In fact, TWENTY PAGEANTS LATER was one of the very first novels I read - I picked it up at age 6 or 7, I do believe - and I have enjoyed it since, just as I've enjoyed Janie who found out that yes, it was HER face on the milk carton. So many of Cooney's YA genre novels totally grab you and pull you into worlds unexplored. TWINS is not one of these. I only wish I had know this beforehand. It's basically about two twin sisters named Madrigal and Mary Lee who seemingly have a close-knit relationship. Mary Lee narrates the story and is extraordinarily naive. She is angered that her parents wish to separate them - they believe the two girls direly need some time apart. So Mary Lee is off to boarding school. And I asked, "What kind of insane parents would do that? A relative's house would perhaps be suitable, maybe. Boarding school? Why?" Mary Lee rarely hears from her twin but is anticipating her visit. They meet on the slopes and Madrigal dies in an accident, only because they switched skiing outfits, everyone thinks Mary Lee has died. So she decides to assume Madrigal's role, to live her twin's life. Like I said: odd, only in the worst way possible. Mary Lee, now Madrigal, goes home to her parents pretending to be her sister. But since I've basically already spoiled the whole wonderful book for you anxious readers, I won't give away the deep, dark secret Mary Lee, now Madrigal, finds out about Madrigal. :-P It all gets damn annoying. And Cooney further pushes the annoyance factor with a bland plot, limp dialogue, and boring, one-dimensional characters bereft of life. ENJOY!!!!!!!!!! :)
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Summary: Odd, only in the worst way possible
Review: There are books that grab you for being peculiar and odd, hence Francesca Lia Block's continuously smooth-flowing lyrical threads that make up her books. That is the whimsical kind of odd, the kind that can often be beatiful. Then there is the type of odd that just makes you ask yourself, and the author, "What the f***?" TWINS, I am sorry to say, falls into this category. I read it a few years ago and reread it recently, thinking I might perhaps change my mind about its level of suckiness. But no, my mindset and opinion of TWINS did not change. It still sucks beyond sucking. The world's best editor would see the task of mending and re-phrasing this story as an impossible one indeed. I like Caroline B. Cooney's work. In fact, TWENTY PAGEANTS LATER was one of the very first novels I read - I picked it up at age 6 or 7, I do believe - and I have enjoyed it since, just as I've enjoyed Janie who found out that yes, it was HER face on the milk carton. So many of Cooney's YA genre novels totally grab you and pull you into worlds unexplored. TWINS is not one of these. I only wish I had know this beforehand. It's basically about two twin sisters named Madrigal and Mary Lee who seemingly have a close-knit relationship. Mary Lee narrates the story and is extraordinarily naive. She is angered that her parents wish to separate them - they believe the two girls direly need some time apart. So Mary Lee is off to boarding school. And I asked, "What kind of insane parents would do that? A relative's house would perhaps be suitable, maybe. Boarding school? Why?" Mary Lee rarely hears from her twin but is anticipating her visit. They meet on the slopes and Madrigal dies in an accident, only because they switched skiing outfits, everyone thinks Mary Lee has died. So she decides to assume Madrigal's role, to live her twin's life. Like I said: odd, only in the worst way possible. Mary Lee, now Madrigal, goes home to her parents pretending to be her sister. But since I've basically already spoiled the whole wonderful book for you anxious readers, I won't give away the deep, dark secret Mary Lee, now Madrigal, finds out about Madrigal. :-P It all gets damn annoying. And Cooney further pushes the annoyance factor with a bland plot, limp dialogue, and boring, one-dimensional characters bereft of life. ENJOY!!!!!!!!!! :)
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Summary: UNREALISTIC
Review: This book was fun to read, but it really annoyed me because i am a twin and this book was so incredibly innaccurate about what being a twin is like, it was so unbelievable. It was interesting, and I enjoyed reading it, but i probly wont read it again. It just really annoyed me, because it was TOTALLY false and misrepresents what being a twin is all about...even though it was interesting to read about how she switched and pretended to be Madrigal, because that would be interesting to do with my sister, but we have switched places a few times before, and people can tell the difference between twins, especially really close friends, so that wasn't too realistic. i know that from experience, my sis and i got caught every time we switched. and also, the other characters, especially jon pear, were so bad too! i had no image of them in my head, and jon pear was so unrealistic and totally unbelievable. he was too evil. good characters should be more complicated, not just pure good or pure evil.
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Summary: Best Book I Ever Read
Review: This book was great because it had a lot of detail in it. You could really understand how Madrigal and Mary Lee felt. It also has a surprise ending.
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Summary: Couldn't put it down!
Review: This book was great! I really got into it. It was the most frustrating book when i first started reading. I would just throw fits about things in the book and say that it couldn't really happen. But in the end it turned out to be really real, and all the things i had been saying couldn't be done, seem to have been been found ways to do them in a real manner. It was one of those I can't put this down, i have to know the endign books. I absolutly LOVED this book!
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Summary: Warning! This Book Was Horrible!
Review: This book was the worst book ever written by Caroline B. Cooney, at least in my opinion. I mean usually I love Caroline B. Cooney's books so I thought I would love this book too but boy was I wrong. The book was written really weirdly, sometimes to the point that you didn't understand what she was trying to say. At first the book started out "sort of okay" but then as it went on the book got worse and even more unbelievable. The whole concept of the book was just too [weak] for me. I don't even know how Caroline B. Cooney thought of it. The book was about these two twins named Mary Lee and Madrigal who do everything together and go everywhere together. But one day their parents decide to seperate them by puting Mary Lee in boarding school but letting Madrigal stay home and go to her regular school. Soon Mary Lee becomes jealous of Madrigal because she thinks that Madrigal's life is so much better than hers. Then Mary Lee starts wishing that she had Madrigal's life. Trust me don't waste your money on this book.
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Summary: Uhhhhhh, no....
Review: This book, I am sorry, is NOT GOOD! The cover, if you've noticed, it interesting, and got me immediatly to pick the book up and buy it, but I was wrong to this the book was intersting. It was dull, making me jump ahead page after page, trying to figure out what happens next. I didn't read every page in the book, becuase it got me so bored I just jumped up a bit. The beginning was good, it got me interested, but needed much more details on Mary Lee's life in her school, totally unrealistic... and I wished it was more on Madrigals part, so we could at least understand the dead twin's point of view. Then, after Madrigals's disturbing death (disturbing, because this was where I got lost in the book, wanting more details, trying to understand what Madrigal was thinking, and just confused) the book went down, down, down to the ground. Boring! Jon Pear, AKA: Mr. Perfect, was a loser, stupid, and unrealistic, Mary Lee was weak and much, much too goody-goody, and all the characters were just, plain, with no personality, and having no real name for themselves. I was bored to death, and the ending, along with Freeze Tag (if you've read it, you'd know what I am talking about) was stupid, unexplained, and was unrealistic.. unsettling.. and a real bomb. Take it from me, and try a better Cooney book, becuase this book was NOT one of her best!!!!
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Summary: Twins by Caroline B Cooney
Review: this is a vey inchanting book and it has lots of different twists and turns to the story line. with the two twins first living 17 years of there lives as one and getting separated at 17 by thier parents one moving to bording school and the other staying at highschool they turn out to be 2 completely different people with different personalities. one of the twins has it all popularity and personality yet the other is so plain and boring with no frinds at her bording school as she tells everyone that she has a twin sister yet no one believes (the popular twin) yet its only mary who than takes on the role her until she visits for a long weekend and then dies on a skiing trip but everyone thinks that it is madrigal
of madrigal and lives a completely differnet life its all perfect when all of a sudden everythink goes wrong and mary is haunted by her false past living the life of madrigal.
i really enjoned this book and recommend it for anybody that enjoys horror books.
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