** spoiler alert ** 
 This is the first of Hopkins' books I've read, so I wasn't really sure what to expect. I picked it up because the kids who look for her books don't really read much else, so if I'm going to point them new directions I need to at least know what her books are about. 
 Overall, I wasn't terribly impressed. The story is interesting, but I had some troubles knowing who was speaking, as the sisters' voices were indistinguishable*. Exposition is clunky at times, with large blocks of dialogue that sound ridiculously stilted. Handy coincidences lend support from different quarters (like the old lady in the nursing home), and Dad's past wasn't any big surprise--anyone who inflicts abuse had it inflicted upon them as a child, of course. (Really? All the time? it seems that way in books and I know it's common in real life, too, but it seems lazy to assume that sexual abusers are that way because they were abused as kids.) 
 *The ending of the book, in which the two sisters are really one person with dissociative identity disorder, do a little to clear up the indistinguishable voices issue, and also explains why Mean-Girl Madison is hitting on both girls' boyfriends and spreading rumors about Kaeleigh's promiscuity. Unfortunately, the ending doesn't justify the problems I had--while the issues make sense in the context of the revelation, the revelation isn't strong enough to support the 500+ pages before it.