My theory is that part of the idea of the first plot twist was to set me up ("Ha! I so completely saw that coming!"
Yeah, I could believe that, partly because the first twist was so completely obvious. I mean, in the first chapter I think it was we get Nick thinking about how everyone says they don't look alike, at which point I went, "right, got it, moving on." And to be fair I didn't have the second twist perfectly -- I thought he had a demon, but that it was a silent passenger that influenced him, or it did a lot of driving in his head but he didn't know. The clue I missed was the dyslexia, which was a clever touch.
Which was the best part of the book for me. There's this one bit where Nick says something like, "but I knew what the word 'brother' means, and now he's not that," which was sad, and made the title make sense and pulled it all together a bit better.
I'm pleased this is a trilogy and not an open-ended series, because she clearly has a plan.
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Yeah, I could believe that, partly because the first twist was so completely obvious. I mean, in the first chapter I think it was we get Nick thinking about how everyone says they don't look alike, at which point I went, "right, got it, moving on." And to be fair I didn't have the second twist perfectly -- I thought he had a demon, but that it was a silent passenger that influenced him, or it did a lot of driving in his head but he didn't know. The clue I missed was the dyslexia, which was a clever touch.
Which was the best part of the book for me. There's this one bit where Nick says something like, "but I knew what the word 'brother' means, and now he's not that," which was sad, and made the title make sense and pulled it all together a bit better.
I'm pleased this is a trilogy and not an open-ended series, because she clearly has a plan.