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Duplicity (2012)

by Nikki Jefford(Favorite Author)

4.14 of 5 Votes: 6

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English

genre

Romance

publisher

Nikki Jefford

series

Spellbound

review 1: **I received a free ecopy of this book in exchange for an honest review.**Firstly, just wanted to say that I love the cover of this book. It doesn't do much in terms of explaining the story but it is stunning. Duplicity, was an interesting but slightly confusing read. First Graylee Perez was taken from her body and put into another’s and now there are two Grays, one in Charlene’s body and the other in Stacey Morehouse’s body. It was confusing because I read the first book quite a long time ago so it took me a while to remember what had happened, plus having two Grays in different bodies, one who just came into existence after almost a year from the original ‘switch,’ is enough to confuse anyone! To prevent further confusion I’ll refer to the ‘duplicate’ Gra... moreylee that is in Charlene’s body as ‘Gray’ and the original Graylee that is in Stacey’s body, ‘Lee,’ as these are the names used in the book.I pitied Gray, because she’s come back to find that she’s missed out on the last 8 or so months, another Gray has been filling her place, her boyfriend’s moved on with Lee and basically everyone has been fine without her. Not to mention that someone has put a spell on the town which is making everyone’s powers out of control, Gray coming back (again) isn’t exactly big news. The worst thing is that both the girls are Graylee but Gray is seen as the duplicate; the excess version when really they were all doing fine without her. Talk about feeling unwanted!I’m not particularly fond of Raj, he’s too loved up with Lee for my liking, not that it stopped him from kissing Gray because he was ‘confused.’ Ha! Although to be fair it’s not exactly his fault since Gray can’t seem to accept that Raj is Lee’s boyfriend, not hers. Adrian, on the other hand, is far more interesting. Slightly evil, crazy and power hungry, but definitely has more appeal than Raj. I feel that he and Gray may share some interesting chemistry in the next book. Overall, a light and fun albeit confusing read but I recommend reading book one first!Favourite Quote:She didn’t come up with anything other than what she felt wasZ a reasonable question: if it was okay for doppelgangers to run around, why couldn’t there be two people with the same mind and memories? Who was that bothering, really?
review 2: After dying, living in her sisters body, and then taking 8 months to get used to an entirely new body, Lee Perez is finally starting to relax into her semi normal, magically filled life. That is until Gray shows up. Now Lee, Raj and their families have to figure out if living with two Graylee's is possible. Their problems continue when the whole covens' powers start to go haywire and the gang is put in hot water when it comes out that Adrian Montez may be connected to all of the trouble.Nikki Jefford has a knack for pulling at my heart strings. It seemed as though every time I decided on whether I was going to root for Gray or Lee, she wrote something to make me change my mind. I do feel however that that was Jefford's point. Perhaps the goal isn't to pick a side. It really did amaze me that the two Graylee's were so different. They weren't mimicking each other's phrases or being all cutesy look alike. No, they were fighting with each other... themselves? Oh whatever. Again, Jefford uses her characters and their situations to point out a seemingly obvious fact that I hadn't thought of in that way before. Think about it, if you were to find a copy of yourself, would you be thrilled, like "yay lets have a tea party"? NO. You would be threatened. In this case; Graylee is her own worst enemy.And oh, poor Raj. Could you possibly imagine how hard his life must have been? It's kind of like when a woman asks her significant other which dress he likes better. He likes them both DUH, because they are both hers! The situation with Gray and Lee is similar. Does he like the old pre- dating Graylee or the new, had some experience with, Graylee? How can he possibly decide? He's only a teenager. Give the guy a break. Sheesh.Adrian Montez was my absolute favorite thing about Duplicity. He has so many different sides and emotions that his presence kept this book spinning. He's not innately good or bad and that makes him an extremely realistic and dangerous character. He a young warlock trying to act too big for himself and I can't help but think that his crazy schemes and hunger for power are an outward expression of his own inner turmoil.I found it perplexing and (in my rebel heart) awesome that there was so much school skipping in Duplicity. They're teen witches and warlocks so of course school skipping is a menial thing.Now, in terms of things I didn't like. I really disliked that Graylee's mom wasn't too worried about Charlene. I realize that Charlene is an entirely unlikable character with, you know, being a crazy skank and all but, after the motherly concern we saw in book one, it was just hard to believe that there wasn't any for from her, in regard to Charlene, in Duplicity.Again, Jefford has me keening for the next book. She really put some characters through the gauntlet in this one and I'm so very excited to see that book three holds even more of my favorite character, Adrian. I hope Enchantment is everything I want it to be. less

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