Her Fearful Symmetry - Audrey Niffenegger

Ever since I read The Time Travellers Wife, I have been eagerly awaiting Audrey Niffenegger's second book. The wait was over at the beginning of October when Her Fearful Symmetry was finally released. I don't normally buy hardback books, but on this occasion I couldn't possibly wait for the paperback and ordered it from Amazon straight away. ~ The Plot ~ 21-year-old mirror twins, Valentina and Julia Poole, have just inherited a flat in London from their aunt Elspeth. It comes as a bit of a surprise to them as they didn't know their mother, Edie, even had a sister, much less a twin sister living in London. There are some strings attached to the ...  Read the complete review

I was a huge fan of The Time Travellers Wife and would rate it as my all time favourite book, so when I heard Niffenegger had a new one coming out I wasn't so keen pon reading it because I was sure she wouldn't beable to top her best seller. How wrong was I? Andrew had been dying to read it and rented it from the library. One day I saw it hanging around and thought I'd give it a try and once I picked it up, I couldn't put it down. Andrew and I read it together because neither of us wanted to give it up even though he was the one that should have rightfully read it first since he ordered it and picked it up. The story tells of a set of twins, ...  Read the complete review

I liked this book enough to bother writing a review about it. It isn't the Time traveller's wife part two, nor should it be. Although it is inevitable to some degree to compare the two books, it is slightly unfair I think, and unnecessary. I could easily have compared the two in this review, and it may have been helpful for those who read TTTW, and wanted to see if this was similar and worthy. However, there are many other reviews about that do that. I aim to simply collate my thoughts on what I did like, and what I didn't like about this book. I'm not going to give much of a plot summary, partly because they are easy enough to find all over the web, and ...  Read the complete review

This is the long awaited novel from the woman who wrote 'The Time Traveler's Wife' which goes down as one of my fav books ever, so the pressure was on. The story is about two identical twins, Julia and Valentina, who inherit their dead aunt's flat but feel a mysterious presence around them when they are there. Robert is the dead aunt's boyfriend, left behind, and Martin is the man from upstairs who has OCD. In this brilliant and twist filled tale, their lives will converge. First up the plot; imaginative and interesting, it's like nothing I've ever read before. It deals with a lot of things that to mention would be a major give-away, but suffice to say ...  Read the complete review