This was OH MY GOD not what I signed up for, and certainly not what I expected.

One deals with conjoined twins, Grace and Tippi, and their struggles and laughs and loves, as they tackle everyday problems in their extraordinary ways. It is emotional, and beautiful, and it’s written in verse form. Verse, you guys. Anything, even my shopping list, evokes emotion in me when it’s written in verse form. Especially when it contains peanut butter, then it really starts the waterworks because peanut butter.

The book is about conjoined twins, and that in itself was unique and brilliant. It’s a topic that we very rarely see and even rarely read about. The only other books about conjoined twins that I’ve heard of are The Girls by Lori Lansens and I do believe BZRK by Michael Grant has a set of conjoined characters. I’ve read neither books, only heard about them so reading One was a new, first-of-its-kind experience for me.

And I can say happily that I wasn’t disappointed one bit. …show more content…
Regardless, Grace gives a rundown of their rare type of disfiguration, is thankful that her sister and her have lived for 16 years at all, and marvels about how it would be to fall in love. And then the reader is introduced to various facets of Grace and Tippi’s life—how their parents struggle to pay their medical bills, how they’re going to be going to a real school rather than being homeschooled and the twins’ fear of being alienated while outside their house, how their sister is