The Wordaholics

Beside Myself  Blurb: Beside Myself  is a literary thriller about identical twins, Ellie and Helen, who swap places aged six. At first it is just a game, but then Ellie refuses to swap back. Forced into her new identity, Helen develops a host of behavioural problems, delinquency and chronic instability. With their lives diverging sharply, one twin headed for stardom and the other locked in a spiral of addiction and mental illness, how will the deception ever be uncovered? Exploring questions of identity, selfhood, and how other people's expectations affect human behaviour, this novel is as gripping as it is psychologically complex.   Review: I got this book from  +Bloomsbury Publishing   (Bloomsbury India) for an honest review. I just love psychological thriller book and I just enjoyed reading it. This is a story of twin sisters Helen and Eleanor (Ellie). Helen is always a good kid. She excels in schools, was a quick learner, speak...

Blurb for this book:  She is pretty and talented - sweet sixteen and never been kissed. He is seventeen; gorgeous and on the brink of a bright future. And now they have fallen in love.   But . . .  They are brother and sister.   Okay. Well, how a book can make you feel so many feels is just beyond my comprehension. I started reading it yesterday and I finished it off in one sitting! It is so grappling till the very end that a reader cannot put this book down (even if they want to).  Forbidden deals with a very sensitive topic that is often (always) considered a taboo in our society. However, you should only pick it up if you are COMPLETELY and TOTALLY ready for it. Believe me, you need to make up your mind before getting into this novel. I, however WASN'T ready for it. I just picked it up as a break from reading so much of Percy Jackson and Heroes of Olympus (not that I needed any break but yes). I don't want to discuss each and every detail ...