the weird one about twins.

 Who writes a book like this?  Terribly, terribly strange and disturbing.  Or maybe just further evidence that I am not a fan of sci fi and never will be.

Her Fearful Symmetry is the follow-up novel to Audrey Niffenegger's Time Travelers Wife.  The topic of the novel was intriguing: a quirky aunt dies and leaves her fortune to her nieces; becomes a ghost and observes them. There is a cast of equally quirky characters and an interesting setting near a cemetery in England.  That said, the relationship between the twins is at once dark and incestuous.  And what ultimately happens in the book is downright dumb.

The reviews of Her Fearful Symmetry have been horrific.  Kirkus Reviews calls the plot of this book "breathtakingly far-fetched."  The book is terribly readable but ridiculously macabre. 

This book was a gift - if you want to call it that.  I should have known the novel was a stinker from the first page.  The names of the two main characters are Edwina and Elspeth.  Shame on me that I didn't put the novel down after page 50.