Two identical twin sisters with a long story of rivalry. Mia and Chloe are in her late 20s and trying to get back in touch after a long period of separation. But life changed them both and Chloe, the ´quiet one´ is decided this time to not allow her sister to destroy her life. No price is too high for this though...
The Quiet Sister by Alex Stone is an interesting take on twins rivalry, generating a suspenseful psychological thriller where the plot is built up by fragments of memories, thoughts and switched personalities. The network of unconfessed guilt Chloe built as a way of psychological survival plays an important role in the main events.
´Our lives were complete opposites and yet she wanted the same thing that I did: to feel like she mattered´.
The pace is relatively slow, allowing to Chloe - the main storyteller, whose perspective is shared although the facts she referrs to are not obvious at the first sight - to explain herself, especially her reasons.
´I´d always wanted to be Mia so badly, that it had never occurred to me that I might actually miss being me´. The duality and duplicity between the twins is played very well in the story, pushed at the very extreme limits.
The male protagonists, Scott and Aaron mostly, do play an unclear at the beginning but definitory role in the end. As the story progresses, they acquire the role of game changers in the story, helping at the same time Chloe to recover her own interests and self, and heal from the past trauma.
I´ve read the book with a lot of interest, and my curiosity was rewarded step by step, as new details about the motivations and especially recent history details were revealed. The idea of how childhood trauma and relationships between parents and children shape the personality of the future adults is a topic I am interested in recently therefore The Quiet Sister helped me to better understand such circumstances.
A recommended read if you are looking for an intelligent take on sisterhood with a psychological mystery twist.
If you are looking to read more by Alex Stone, feel free to check a previous review of her other book I published two years ago on the blog.
Rating: 3.5 stars
Disclaimer: Book offered as part of the book tour but the opinions are, as usual, my own
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