Review: Never really got the point of it all
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 12 7, 2012
***May contain SPOILERS*** (but it would be hard to tell as confusing as this book was...)This started out okay, for the first few pages.  Belinda's sister Kate has gone missing so she sort of dives into Kate's polar opposite type life to see if she can discover who or what made Kate run off.  Except maybe Kate didn't run off because she is known to be flighty and travels a lot.  But that's okay, Belinda decides to take on Kate's life in an attempt to sort it all out, despite the fact she has only been gone a few days and this is not out of character.I get that they are opposites.  Kate is flighty and "hip" and into the alternative music/DJ scene and is totally attractive to men.  While Belinda is, umm, well, Belinda looks just exactly like Kate except, umm, she is unattractive and fat--except without doing much more than wearing Kate's clothes she is a dead ringer for her.  And, umm, she is the smart one, yeah, that's it.  With an eidetic memory.  Even though, umm, there really is no such thing, but whatever, she needs some way to be able to pull minute details from conversations she had with her sister out of nowhere to convince others that she really is Kate.  That was just too weird.  Belinda comes across as totally flighty herself, daydreaming away during her "dates" with the men Kate met online and then all of a sudden she is like, "oh, yeah, on February 19th, 2002 which was a snowy day with temps in the low 20s Kate was telling me...."  As a plot device it was useless and unbelievable.The pages and pages of DJ junk and head banging, clap your hands, I will ROCK you scenes were overlong and boring to read.  And then there was the ending.  Wow.  And not Wow in a good way.  I got it.  It was all sliding doors and turnarounds.  But so much set up and BS for that?  It was more of a let down than a bizarre twist.  I didn't find Belinda likable in any form she took.  The twists were unreal and more than a bit whacked.  The last several pages added nothing but a deeper sense of dislike for Belinda.  The only character I came close to liking was teh Kiwi, and he had to be more than a bit off to put up with all he did.  The basic concept was good.  I just wish the author had gone in a different direction with it.