In this supernatural tale, an abused wife finds herself unwittingly in a battle between good and evil.

Natalia Sathers is a world class model: beautiful, kind, and adored by the public. When she meets Drake Fontaine, her father’s young business associate, she’s instantly smitten. They fall in love and marry in short order.

Soon, Natalia finds that she doesn’t know Drake at all, especially when he drinks. Then, he becomes jealous, demanding and physically abusive. Natalia determines to leave him but is suddenly overwhelmed by mysterious occurrences. When she tries to leave home, for instance, she turns into an old, wrinkled caricature of herself – but only outside her home. After she learns more about Drake and his upbringing, she finds that she’s up against something more powerful and sinister than she has ever known – something that may even have involved her late mother.

This slim volume is written in a stream of consciousness style – one long burst of narrative from Natalia’s point of view, suggesting her random thoughts. As such, it has a certain hypnotic cadence. However, this quality is undermined by the plethora of inconsistent spellings, punctuation, and grammatical errors, making the text hard to decipher. Among inconsistent quotation marks, rare paragraph breaks and, often, missing periods, readers find themselves lost in a tangle of words.

Towards the end, the story gets ever more confusing as spiritual beings come and go. Readers come across two characters named Margaret – or are they really the same character? Lilith, the symbolic figure of demon mythology appears, but her name is spelled two different ways: Liliath and Lilith. And there’s her friend Peter – or is he Patrick?

The title of the book, Dizygotic, refers to fraternal twins. Because the book ends on a cliffhanger, readers will have to wait until the sequel to understand its significance to the story. But in the face of so many technical errors, it’s unlikely many will be eager for the next installment.

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