Identical, Ellen Hopkins
Identical, Ellen Hopkins
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Identical

Author: Ellen Hopkins

Narrator: Laura Flanagan

Unabridged: 8 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/27/2008

Synopsis

In the latest hard-hitting YA novel by the New York Times bestselling author, sixteen-year-old identical twin girls must come to terms with their abusive father.

Kaeleigh and Raeanne are sixteen-year-old identical twins, the daughters of a district court judge father and politician mother running for Congress. Everything on the surface of their lives seems Norman Rockwell perfect, but underneath run deep and damaging secrets.

Kaeleigh is the good girl—her father's perfect flower, something she has tried so hard to be since she was nine and he started sexually abusing her. She cuts herself and vomits after every binge, desperate to feel something normal. Raeanne uses painkillers, drugs, alcohol, and sex to numb the pain of not being Daddy's favorite. Both girls must figure out how to become whole, but how can they when their world has been torn to shreds?

Writing in her characteristic narrative poetry style, Ellen Hopkins shows once again how well she knows today's teens and the issues that matter to them.

About Ellen Hopkins

Ellen Hopkins is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of numerous young adult novels, as well as the adult novels such as Triangles, Collateral, and Love Lies Beneath. She lives with her family in Carson City, Nevada, where she has founded Ventana Sierra, a nonprofit youth housing and resource initiative. Follow her on Twitter at @EllenHopkinsLit.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Emily May on February 24, 2011

This book was... disturbing. Very disturbing. I really like the author's style and I think the use of verse is highly effective and contributes something to the story that I never imagined possible... but. And there is a but. I felt this book, unlike Burned which I loved, just went too far. It made......more

Goodreads review by Thomas on February 10, 2009

I have to say, this book is pretty amazing. Basically it's about these two twins, Kaeleigh and Raeanne. They are half of the All-American family, with a dad who is a judge and a mom who is running for a position in Congress. But what lies beneath their facade is really dysfunction; and the worst, wor......more

Goodreads review by Carla Bulian on May 20, 2024

The manner of the storytelling is disturbing the same way as the story itself. It’s worth reading.......more

Goodreads review by Mary on June 25, 2018

THE GOOD: * WELL I’M NOT OKAY * at all, jesus fucking christ * it’s 100% better to go into this as blind as possible (aside from trigger warnings, that I’ll list below) * it’s a novel written in verse, which is a format that I’ve never read before, but oh my gosh so cool?!!? * it’s a lot more introspecti......more

Goodreads review by Snotchocheez on August 12, 2017

2.5 stars I doubt I'll ever cotton to the literary stylings of Ellen Hopkins (that faux-poetry thing drives me nuts; she's no Jacqueline Woodson, that's for damn sure) but I suspect Identical will strike a chord of truth for incest survivors and others who've grown up in exceedingly dysfuctional fami......more

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