Review: The Mirror Sisters (Mirror Sisters 1)

 V. C Andrews
 The Mirror Sisters
The Mirror Sisters - Book 1

Many of the fans were anticipating this series, this reader and Andrewverse-enthusiast included, but it came with apprehension. Lately the ghost writer has been trying new things: more standalone novels, more paranormal plots, more mainstream ideas.  While they have their merits, to some degree, you cannot help but miss the old classic VC Andrew style that we all know and love.

That being said, I went into “The Mirror Sisters” with an open mind. The premise was intriguing and I was willing to give him another shot. Lately, his stuff has been missing the mark with me.

I was pleasantly surprised with the overall story. We have two sisters, Haylee and Kaylee, who are identical twins. Their mother drives this term home in every way she can possible think; to the point of obsession and high on the creep factor scale. If one daughter gets a cut on her hand, she cuts the other daughter in the same place. When one daughter cries, the other must cry too.  The beginning of the book is very jumpy, to be honest – Kaylee, who is telling us the story, gives us lots of puzzle pieces from her childhood. At times she is a child, the next page she is a teenager, the next page she goes back to a story of when she was a child. It got very confusing.

The story really doesn’t get interesting until the final few chapters when the plot thickens. As the girls get older, they are still not allowed to have any independence from each other and one of the girls has 

had enough.

Overall, I did enjoy it and it did hold my attention so I will give it 4 stars, but again, the main point of the story did not start to pick up until the very end and we are left with a heavy and shocking cliff hanger! Fans will be itching to get their hands on the next book, for sure.  I was happy to see that we get a new kind of conflict – this is not typical VCA style, it is way more modern and very “2016”.  Time will tell with how the author takes the story, and just how far the bond of twins and sisterhood can be pushed.