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Beautiful Lies

Beautiful Lies, September 2012
by Jessica Warman

Bloomsbury
Featuring: Alice; Rachel
432 pages
ISBN: 0802723381
EAN: 9780802723383
Kindle: B007N6JD7K
Hardcover / e-Book
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"Meet twins Alice and Rachel and learn about their secrets, their psychic bond and their terror."

Fresh Fiction Review

Beautiful Lies
Jessica Warman

Reviewed by Lynn Cunningham
Posted February 24, 2013

Young Adult Suspense

Alice and Rachel are twins and no one can tell them apart. When they were 9, their parents were killed and they came to live with their aunt and uncle. Alice was always the twin that caused trouble while Rachel was the smart and reasonable one. This was sometimes a problem until they decided to switch places off and on. Pretending to be each other while fooling everyone was a kick. Now that they're 18 and in their senior year in high school, they're closer than ever. At least that's what one of the twins believes. Everything comes crashing down, though, on the night that one of the girls disappears. They're meeting with some of their friends at the local fair. This is where one of the twins vanishes without a trace. Not only does she disappear, but the remaining twin can't seem to get anyone to take her seriously. She knows that something is seriously wrong because she and her twin share a psychic bond. They know when each other is in trouble. The remaining twin suddenly can't feel or sense her sister, but she starts to exhibit a terrible head wound as well as black eyes and other injuries that just appear. She knows that her sister is suffering the injuries and that's why she is showing the symptoms of them. It is clear to her that her twin has been kidnapped and is being horribly hurt and mistreated. Even as she looks for her sister, she can feel that time is running out. As she searches for her twin, she finds out many things that were being hidden from her. So many secrets start to crop up seeming to block her progress. Will she find her twin in time to save her? The answers to all the questions come out in the end along with spooky twists and turns along the way. BEAUTIFUL LIES is a book that grabs you from the very first page and takes you on one of the most thrilling rides of your life. You'll find the perfect blend of suspense and the supernatural that will stay with you long after the book ends. For those that love a great mystery, you can't miss with BEAUTIFUL LIES.

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SUMMARY

Rachel and Alice are an extremely rare kind of identical twins—so identical that even their aunt and uncle, whom they’ve lived with since their parents passed away, can’t tell them apart. But the sisters are connected in a way that goes well beyond their surfaces: when one experiences pain, the other exhibits the exact same signs of distress. So when one twin mysteriously disappears, the other immediately knows something is wrong—especially when she starts experiencing serious physical traumas, despite the fact that nobody has touched her. As the search commences to find her sister, the twin left behind must rely on their intense bond to uncover the truth. But is there anyone around her she can trust, when everyone could be a suspect? And ultimately, can she even trust herself? Master storyteller Jessica Warman will keep readers guessing when everything they see—and everything they are told—suddenly becomes unreliable in this page-turning literary thriller.


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Re: Meet twins Alice and Rachel and learn about their secrets, their psychic bond and their terror.

Sounds like a book I want to read.
(Mary Branham 9:22pm March 3, 2013)

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