{"id":2406,"date":"2021-10-21T17:33:51","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T17:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2406"},"modified":"2023-04-02T23:05:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T23:05:06","slug":"ill-be-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2406","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ll Be You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of all-caps texts I sent about THE TWISTS IN THIS BOOK!!! were\u2026many. Those twists concern the misdeeds of identical twin sisters Elli and Sam Logan, who are estranged because of a shocking betrayal. They\u2019re former child TV stars, with Sam back then enthralled by their minor fame while Elli hated every moment. As adults, Elli is a mom while Sam sees reproduction as \u201ca monetizable bodily function.\u201d While Ellie explores empowerment in a self-help group, Sam is a barely sober alcoholic and drug addict whose possessions consist \u201cprimarily of emotional baggage.\u201d The twins\u2019 paths have diverged, but when their dysfunctional parents call Sam for help looking after a child\u2013one she didn\u2019t know her sister had\u2013she drops everything. The first part of the book looks at the past and present from Sam\u2019s perspective, and the second at the same events from the point of view of her sister. This reveals that identical events can be experienced through a gulf of misunderstanding, hurt, and fear and that damage and love will find ways out. <strong>Brown\u2019s insightful language and the emotional brutality and fortitude shown as Elli and Sam are forced to see themselves and each other anew will stay with readers.<\/strong> If twins in fiction are of interest, also try Brit Bennett\u2019s <em>The Vanishing Half<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of all-caps texts I sent about THE TWISTS IN THIS BOOK!!! were\u2026many. Those twists concern the misdeeds of identical twin sisters Elli and Sam Logan, who are estranged&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,164,51,53],"class_list":["post-2406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-family-life","tag-star","tag-thrillers","tag-women"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Ill-Be-U-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Ill-Be-U-400x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Henrietta Thornton","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=4"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}