While the ending is horrible, like the others who hate this book, I also hate the inconsistency of the main character. For someone who is a problem solver that doesn’t like faking it, she fakes liking her sister for a looooong time, and only confronts her at the end. She wants to find proof to her evil sister but doesn’t record the final conversation (and she had time when they entered the house).
For a straight-A student who likes to fix things, the author doesn’t write like she is that kind of person at all!
And after her evil sister snaps at her and her boyfriend, gets him banned from the house…why does the boyfriend STILL talk to the evil sister the next day? Like none of that happened?
The author tries real hard to make the good sister seem bad to the school, but siblings arguing is NOT enough for people to see a person as changed. That’s 100% normal. Especially when they both have the exact same schedule, always seeing each other - Why didn’t anyone think of that?? The “she changed” narrative came off extremely forced.
If you read other books by this author, you’ll know she doesn’t develop characters well and uses the same personalities for different stories. Like hiring the same actors for different, shallow movies.
And no, making the bad person win in the end is NOT a twist, it’s been done before over and over and over. Except in this story, the good twin never got closed to solving anything. Just sat on photos she DID have, did nothing with them other than spill her guts to her boyfriend about her thoughts towards the end. No proof. Nothing. Went to their mother’s old apartment and the spot she died in just to find out information that doesn’t move the story forward and nothing to prove her help her case. That is NOT why main characters go back to the “scene of the crime”.
Don’t know how this got so many stars, honestly think they’re fake. Or maybe preteens like it and don’t bother with simple logic.
Read an actually good thriller book. This underdeveloped, weak plot will leave you unenthused.