If you like your plot twists ludicrous and your characters shallow, then this is the thriller for you.
Now don’t get me wrong, I’m a big fan of trashy thrillers but this one is not even fun; it’s just ridiculous. Identical twins, right? Iris and Summer. Summer goes missing off the yacht the twins are sailing through a remote part of the ocean. The other twin, Iris, assumes her identify (yawn) with a plan to claim the hundred million dollars promised by their equally ludicrous father in his will to the first of his children to have a baby and give it his surname (eye roll). I mean, let’s not even bother with the massive holes in the plot. They are impossible to discuss without giving away some of the more irritational twists and anyway you’re not likely to read it because I suffered through this book (all the way through) so you don’t have to. You’re welcome.
Now if you too are a fan of the good trashy thriller genre, here’s some suggestions for what to read instead of the way overhyped The Girl in the Mirror. Try The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena, The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley, The Rumour by Lesley Kara, In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware and Something In The Water by Catherine Steadman.
Two stars for The Girl In The Mirror. Seriously, life’s too short….
