** spoiler alert ** 
 So this book was on a best books of 2010 list i saw and i threw it on my list. I HATED IT in way that i haven't hated a book I've finished in a LONG time. 
 So the story is that there are two girls, from families with nothing in common, but yet the one mother is obsessed with them beign friends because their daughters were born on the same day. It tells the story of the two daughters and their lives. both have nothing in common with each other or their families. About 25 pages into the book I figured out that the daughters were switched. And then spent the rest of the book being annoyed that it took them 200 pages to figure it out. 
 It was so annoying. The one falls in love with her biological brother (although we do learn later it's her half brother-- the only thing even remotely resembling a twist is that her steady father had a one night stand with her birth mother) and eventually finds out she's pregnant. Her mother, who never leaves the family farm, flies to British Columbia, TELLS THE GUY AND NEVER TELLS HER DAUGHTER. And when this extremely Christian woman makes her daughter have an abortion it still takes the daughter being told by her mother's best friend to figure it out! THIRTY YEARS LATER!!! 
 The story was sweet in many ways- but this felt so forced. I didn't believe that the author didn't want me to know. At one point in time Ruth (the one that had the incestuous affair with her unknown half-brother) notices how their hair is the same color. And yet she never pieces it together. And I don't' even get the feeling that she just wasn't getting it. The author took what could have been a charming story and ruined it by not being able to either a. keep this a secret from me and shocking it with me or b. taking me along the discovery with the characters.