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Brit Bennett: The Vanishing Half (Hardcover, Riverhead Books) 4 stars

The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a …

Review of 'The Vanishing Half' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

I could have read another 500 pages of this. Nothing really happens but I still found it infinitely readable. My only two complaints is 1) Bennett doesn't really spend any time describing what anyone looks like. She gave one or two defining features for a few characters but for a lot of people I had no idea what they looked like, and for a book so focused on looks and the ability to pass, you'd think we'd want to know what the twins looked like beyond "light". My second complaint, and this is minor, but it was hard to tell what year the story was set in. The story jumped around a lot and was broken up into sections with broad years attached to them, but within the sections there was a lot of time jumping which made it difficult to know when things were happening. It's not the biggest deal but something I struggled with.