The Other
by:
Thomas Tryon (author)
Tells the story of the Perry twins, Niles and Holland, one apparently good and gentle, the other, dark and mysterious
Tells the story of the Perry twins, Niles and Holland, one apparently good and gentle, the other, dark and mysterious
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780440167365 (0440167361)
Publish date: October 1st 1987
Publisher: Dell
Pages no: 281
Edition language: English
So, who was it!? Twins. Was it really Niles missing his dead brother? Or was it Ada using the 'games' to try to convince Holland he was Niles? Who really died in the well?
Please note that I gave this book 3.5 stars, but rounded it up to 4 stars on Goodreads.I wish that I could have gotten into this book more. I think the flow is what messed me up. It wasn't a slow burn of a read. It was a slog til almost the end when things picked up. Also since I figured out the twi...
Dude. That was weird. Boring for 2/3 of the duration of the book, but weird. I did not expect the plot twist. Not even sure how to interpret the last chapter. This will eventually require a second reading before it's fully understood! :P
”Twins? With different birthdays? How unusual. Indeed for identical twins, very. Oh yes, there were the mixed signs, on the cusp, as one says--they should have been more alike; nevertheless, the difference. Holland a Pisces, fish-slippery, now one thing, now another. Niles an Aries, a ram blithely b...
"Can you remember what we used to say about secrets?"Niles and Holland are thirteen-year-old identical twins; born on opposite sides of midnight just as Pisces turns into Aries, the two boys couldn't be more different despite the fact that they are each other’s spitting image. Actor-turned-author Th...
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