Maybe Twin Terror will make sense of book 1, but I'm kinda hoping it will be just as ridiculous! I'm assuming Twin Terror is the second in the series, but there's no blurb at the end advertising book 2, nor is this listed as part of a series here on Goodreads (a fact which I'm about to fix). You find out that Liz and Rob realize that Isabel must still be alive, with no real proof and then BAM, book over. The main problem I had with the story was that it ended so abruptly, and clearly implied that there must be a sequel because we get NO CLOSURE WHATSOEVER. Plot holes and vintage tech aside, this was totally the type of story I loved as a teenager: the idea of taking over someone else's life, murder, secret diaries. I'm thinking it's meant to be like a Palm Pilot? 'Can't you send messages on those things?' Rob asks, to which Liz muses something about 'infrared beams,' because apparently text messaging wasn't something anyone had heard of in 2004. I'm pretty sure I read this book back when it came out in 1995, but this edition was printed in 2004, so Iz using a 'small personal computer' called 'The Wiz' sounded really dated. The house gets broken into a least once more before the end, and there's also a coven that's been meeting on the grounds, but all Liz does is tell her teacher about it. You'd think he might have bought a security system or something, at the very least. I suppose that's also why he doesn't worry too much when Liz picks him up from the hospital and drives him home only to find that their mansion has been broken into and Iz's room trashed.

Somehow, no one knows that Isabel died, because she was at the family beach house when it happened, and the father is some famous author-recluse and so manages to keep it out of the papers. When your mother tells you about the death of your twin, who is her also her own child, do you think she would tell you the gory details, like 'The shotgun blast had destroyed her face'? And then her only reaction is to shudder, and later begin to cry, but then tell you that going to the funeral is a silly idea? I couldn't quite wrap my mind around it. Someone keeps breaking into Iz's house and leaving messages telling her to leave Rob alone, and soon Liz fears for her own life. Liz also discovers that Iz had been seeing a biker.

She seems to trust Rob, Iz's on-again-off-again boyfriend, but his ex, Amy Rose is in a coven. When Isabel is murdered, Liz immediately flies back to the States, where she slips into Isabel's life with startling ease. Elizabeth's been traveling the world, while Isabel lives with their reclusive father. Elizabeth and Isabel are twins who have been separated since age 3, when their parents got divorced.

Twin Sisters by Janice Harrell