But, like Ella, I’m going to just go with it, because otherwise the plot would be more DOA than… well, Maddy. Since Ella blames herself for the accident, she rationalizes that adopting Maddy’s identity would allow her sister to “live on” while Ella dies, and it’s for the best since Maddy was the more popular and loved twin.
This is the point when it’s safe to say that further reading requires one’s suspension of disbelief to be deader than… well, Maddy. She wakes up in the hospital with amnesia, but everyone is calling her by Maddy’s name, so she does the logical thing in such a situation and decides to just go with it. Maddy is killed instantly but Ella survives. Ella and Maddy argue on the ride home, it’s raining and hailing, and the car goes off the road and wraps around a tree. Ella does, and we get the sense that Something Terrible has happened but of course Maddy doesn’t want to talk about it, because if she did we wouldn’t spend the whole book trying to figure it out. Maddy calls Ella in tears, asking her to pick her up from a party at Maddy’s boyfriend’s house. “She wears short skirts / I wear t-shirts…” I was B-rated horror movies on the couch with microwave popcorn. She was Friday-night parties and homecoming dances.
Maddy was skirts and heels and flatirons, where I was jeans and T-shirts and ponytails. In TSWK, Ella and Maddy are yet another set of fictional twins who couldn’t be more different: I do recall it being really dark, at least to my teenage self. In fact, the premise of The Secrets We Keep is very similar to the latter, although I hadn’t read it in years and don’t recall exact details. This book initially caught my eye because I just love twin stories, and was reminded of 90s classics like Stranger With My Face and Twins. Unfortunately, I fear I have to go with the less favorable ones.
This is another one I read because of mixed reviews on my GR feed, so I wanted to decide for myself.
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