The cover of The Other very much suits it!! I won't say too much because I don't want to give anything away, but once you read this book from start to finish, you'll realise why it suits the book perfectly. Whilst it does suit the story, I feel the author missed a trick with the naming of it. I believe there were plenty of better titles the author could have chose for his book though. The title of this book comes across as being a book about something sinister. What will it take for Niles to realise that Holland isn't all he seems? Niles worships Holland and would do anything to get Holland's admiration, including making excuses for Holland whenever Holland does a bad deed. Niles is the good one whilst Holland is the bad one, always up to something really bad. However, it took me a long time to get into this book, but I was definitely rewarded with a twist and a great ending! One good twin, one bad twin, yup, definitely sounded interesting. When I read the synopsis of this book, I was definitely intrigued. (This review can also be found on my blog at The (Mis)Adventures of a Twenty-Something Year Old Girl). It is a landmark of psychological horror that is a worthy descendent of the books of James Hogg, Robert Louis Stevenson, Shirley Jackson, and Patricia Highsmith.
Thomas Tryon’s best-selling novel about a homegrown monster is an eerie examination of the darkness that dwells within everyone. As the summer goes on, though, and Holland’s pranks become increasingly sinister, Niles finds he can no longer make excuses for his brother’s actions.
Perry still hasn’t recovered from the shock of her husband’s gruesome end and stays sequestered in her room, leaving her sons to roam free. The Perrys live in the bucolic New England town their family settled centuries ago, and as it happens, the extended clan has gathered at its ancestral farm this summer to mourn the death of the twins’ father in a most unfortunate accident. Holland is bold and mischievous, a bad influence, while Niles is kind and eager to please, the sort of boy who makes parents proud.
They are close, close enough, almost, to read each other’s thoughts, but they couldn’t be more different. Holland and Niles Perry are identical thirteen-year-old twins.
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