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"With &amp;quot;Identical&amp;quot;, Hopkins sticks with her successful formula, writing a thick book of free verse poetry about abused, self-destructive teens. As readers tick off behaviors (bulimia --check, cutting -- check), more cynical readers might wonder why she didn't make the girls triplets so she could toss in a few more. The biggest complaint is the lack of editing -- there's simply no reason this needs to be 565 pages long. Even easy-to-read poems can't make up for redundant lessons and tedious action.\nBoth parents are caricatures, and the twins are preternaturally self-aware as they engage in overblown prose like \"Why can't he and I find/a way to accept each other, lose ourselves in all-/encompassing love, the kind that can save you?/ The kind that can glue/ all the fragments of two/ broken hearts together.\" The novel's twist, while shocking, veers into soap opera territory."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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