Review: Doppelgangers - Erin Lee and Lorah Jayin

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Review: Doppelgangers - Erin Lee and Lorah Jayin - January 2020

I have to admit I was in two minds with this book as I did enjoy it but thought it could have been a tad different as it wasn't what I expected from the title Doppelgangers. The book starts with us being introduced to Neri who is a special education teacher who lives alone, now that she is divorced and her children are in college. Neri receives an email from a concerned Aunt known as Harlo. Neri received it as she is stepping in for the current teacher Debbie who is on maternity leave. Harlo claims that her niece Laura is in danger and that her parents are abusing her by making her sick etc. Laura supposedly is on the spectrum, but when Harlo gets into Neri's mind, she starts testing Laura and is very surprised when things don't start to add up with the "autism" diagnosis.  We learn that Harlo is also single but quite a hard woman and works as a child social worker dealing with children who have been removed from their parents and sadly given back. She also has a dark secret of her own where she plays Vigilante saving the children in a way only she can understand.  Jump back to Neri when she is pushed and decides to take matters into her own hands and kidnaps Laura and takes her to Harlo and imagine their surprise when a tox screen reveals a cocktail mixture in Laura. Doppelgangers have a theme of DCYFs and neglected children which we have read in Erin Lee's stories as EL George previously, it also has a case which is like half Munchausen By Proxy and Hero Complex, this part I love as it had always fascinated me as I grew up in a similar world but not as terrible. The part that did disappoint me was the whole Doppelgangers angle as I felt it wasn't even really touched on in the book and the cover/blurb makes it sound like a bigger deal than it was in the book. Overall though if you love Edgy reads, disabilities, and social welfare stories, then you will enjoy Doppelgangers by Erin Lee and Lorah Jayin.

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