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Think Twice |  | Author: Lisa Scottoline
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
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Pages: 384
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Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 6.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 0312380755
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
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Publication Date: March 16, 2010
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Product Description
From the blockbuster New York Times bestselling author of Look Again comes a novel that makes you question the nature of evil: is it born in us or is it bred? Bennie Rosato looks exactly like her identical twin, Alice Connolly, but the darkness in Alice’s soul makes them two very different women. Or at least that’s what Bennie believes, until she finds herself buried alive at the hands of her twin. Meanwhile, Alice takes over Bennie’s life, impersonating her at work and even seducing her boyfriend in order to escape the deadly mess she has made of her own life. But Alice underestimates Bennie and the evil she has unleashed in her twin’s psyche, as well as Bennie’s determination to stay alive long enough to exact revenge. Bennie must face the twisted truth that she is more like her sister Alice than she could have ever imagined, and by the novel’s shocking conclusion, Bennie finds herself engaged in a war she cannot win—with herself.
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 This book would not convert readers to this series... August 20, 2010
M.V. (TX, USA)
Really? I kept thinking to myself has no one thought to check their fingers prints, maybe I have seen to many CSI/Cop shows or something.
This story just seemed really dumbed down to me, where's the strong Bennie at? So many other things just went on where I kept saying to myself "Really"?
It's your choice read it or move on to the next in the series.
 And 1 Star is Generous August 14, 2010
Joseph Farro
First let me admit two things up front;
1. I'm a big fan of Lisa Scottoline, have read all of her previous novels, and have enjoyed them very much, especially the Rosato and Associates ones.
2. I did not finish "Think Twice". I couldn't. It's dreadful. I stuck it out until page 202 but then couldn't stand the thought of reading another page, let alone another of those short, choppy chapters. The plot path she was taking was obvious, and I no longer cared what happened to a character I always had cared a great deal about in the past.
The evil twin part is bad enough, but we've seen Alice before. It's the use of two of the worst possilble plot elements that made this a second (or third or tenth) rate work. They are, first, the overuse of coincidence and, second, that everyone is suddenly struck stupid. They are the hallmarks of bad writing and of authors who no longer care or are no longer able to write anything worth reading. I was incredibly disappointed that one of my favorite authors would stoop so low. It was like reading one of those awful "Ludlum novels" that "he" wrote years after his death. (Or, even worse, one of the Van Lustbadder Bourne novels.)
This book raises an interesting question. Did Lisa Scottoline really write "Think Twice"? Maybe she has an evil twin who took her place and wrote this mess. Maybe every one around her is too stupid to figure this out. That would be more plausable than anything that happened in this book.
The plot involves Bennie Rosato's twin sister replacing her and everyone who knows Bennie either being on vacation (by coincidence) or too wrapped up in their own agendas (due to sudden stupidity syndrome) to tell the difference. Bennie herself joins the idiot parade, which includes her previously intelligent associates Mary and Judy. This is particularly evident on the above mentioned page 202. It was at this point that all Bennie had to was ask the cops to fingerprint her to prove who she is, or at least who she isn't. Instead, she runs away. I realze that proving her identity on page 202 would have ended the book around page 215, and you can't sell a book that short. However, I didn't care enough to see if she got caught to continue reading.
And does anyone really believe Bennie's dog was put down? I didn't finish the book, but I suspect the ex boy friend went back and paid for the operation. I'm sure that was intended to be the big, surprise, heart breaking ending.
I doubt Lisa Scottoline reads these reviews, but just in case she does: Lisa, you should be ashamed of herself for writing this. The worst part about the everyone is struck stupid plot device is that the author assumes everyone reading the book is stupid as well. Of course, she may be right about this more than she's wrong. Look at how many reviewers in here thought this mess was good and, even worse, original.
Lisa Scottoline owed her readers, many of us loyal for years, better than this. We have come to expect a lot from her. Instead we got something that seems to have been thrown together in time to beat a contractual deadline. One wonders if we will all "Think Twice" before ever trusting her with our money or time again.
Just Awful July 27, 2010
Janet M. Stankovics (so calif)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'd recently read "Look Again" and it was a very decent book.. ok, fell apart at the end a bit, but a solid effort.
By comparison ( or not even by comparison) "Think Twice" is just horrible. It's so unbelievable and contrived that I couldnt' even finish it. Benne's "hard of hearing" father who's dialog IS ALWAYS IN CAPS was annoying to even read!
Some of Lisa Scottoline's books are borderline to begin with, but this one stinks. Don't waste your time.
Really? July 26, 2010
L. A. Kaminski (Exton, PA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am usually a big Lisa Scottoline fan however, I agree with all of the '1 star' readers on this one. Too convenient for Alice .. and I really missed Bennie. Throughout the book I kept thinking, 'Really?' Don't waste your time.
 Not a Scottoline winner July 20, 2010
Judy K. Polhemus (LA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
If I don't forget who I am when I read a book and don't get "lost" in the story, the writer will have a problem with me. Not only did I not slip into the story, I kept standing outside, saying, Lisa, why in the world did your character choose this action when another would have been so much better? Or, Lisa, that's not credible. You must make the reader believe your story. "Think Twice" by that inveterate writer, Lisa Scottoline, made me think twice all right: Why did I read this? Oh yes, the Vine program.
I'm trying not to be too hard on the book, but after all, a twin ("think twice!") who drugs her sister to take her place to confiscate ALL her money, leave her penniless, all because she can, and make everyone believe she is the original--I dunno--makes me ask: What's wrong with everyone? Initially, I thought she could make it work (She? Both author and character). The problem with switching, in the twins' case, is that they did not even know about each other until fairly recently, thus don't know each other's multitude of little ways that make up a person. Take the other's place and fool whom? Right! Everyone! Even a former boyfriend she runs into on the way to stealing all her sister's bank goods. In bed, in bed he will know she is not his former girlfriend. No-o-o-o-o-o--he thinks she has simply changed her style and he loves it! This subbing twin embraces sex, the other not so much. And he cannot tell the difference? Men! Fiction!
Oh, where is the "good" twin? Alice drugged her, put her in a wooden coffin and buried her in a field. That's how the book opens-- Bennie is trying to claw her way out. She does but is captured as the imposter. Who can tell? Not Mary, Bennie's young attorney (aiming for partner in the law firm), who calls "Bennie" to let her know the impersonating twin is apprehended. Yikes! I must drug Boyfriend and go out and burn the field where the coffin is so the real Bennie cannot prove that she was buried alive. Afterwards, returns to boyfriend who is clueless concerning just about everything.
And on and on like this. Parents, co-workers, the witchy aunt from Italy, who tries to steal Bennie's father from her mother. She's "witchy" because she is a strega, a fortune-telling witch and the only one who knows immediately that the evil twin is NOT Bennie, the good and true.
Except for the time the reader stops to question the weak spots, the story moves rapidly, leaving the reader hanging here, then there, then everywhere--but that's the good part! Dangle, dangle, dangle. Jumping from character to character, always keeping the reader's interest and need to know what happens next. What more can I say? Something drove me all the way to the end. Want to know what? I had to know what kind of ending Scottoline would use. I found out and that was the end. AND-- I've not given any spoilers!
Bottom line: Not Scottoline's best, but still a fairly fast-paced story with an interesting cast of characters. I recommend this one for an easy beach read, just not highly.
(Normally, I write positive reviews, but occasionally not so. That happens in the Vine program. There are fabulous products, then those less than worthy of a glowing review. "Think Twice, for me, gets one--less than glowing, that is.)
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