Identical by Ellen Hopkins

Here's a blurb from the book's goodreads page: Kaeleigh and Raeanne are 16-year-old identical twins, the daughters of a district court judge father and politician mother running for Congress. Everything on the surface of their lives seems Norman Rockwell perfect, but underneath run deep and damaging secrets.

Kaeleigh is the good girl-her father's perfect flower, something she has tried so hard to be since she was nine and he started sexually abusing her. She cuts herself and vomits after every binge, desperate to feel something normal. Raeanne uses painkillers, drugs, alcohol, and sex to numb the pain of not being Daddy's favorite. Both girls must figure out how to become whole, but how can they when their world has been torn to shreds?

Writing in her characteristic narrative poetry style, Ellen Hopkins shows once again how well she knows today's teens and the issues that matter to them.
 
My Take
 
Wow, talk about your gritty, heartbreaking, roller coaster of a story.  Ellen Hopkins is the master of novels in verse.  Though the topic may be tragic, her writing is so well crafted.  You're drawn to Kaeleigh and Raeanne.  Their story is gripping.  They're on a run away train of self-destruction and no one seems to notice.
 
This book will deliver one shocking secret after another.  I would highly recommend this book.  I'm giving it five kisses!