Daniil and Vanya was fine. In what seems to be a common trope (Orphan, the Omen, the bad book I read a few years ago, the real life Orphan Natalia Barnett), Toronto couple Emma and Gregory decide to adopt twins from a Russian orphanage and pretty much from the moment they leave the orphanage, the twins bring increasingly more troubling and disturbing situations to the family, leading to a strain in the marriage and a growing sense of paranoia in Emma. When I say disturbing, I really mean it: some pretty explicit descriptions of a loss of a pregnancy, some scenes of self-harm, and when it comes to the twins, it starts small, with strange comments from the twins in their childhood, but progresses to some terrible and descriptive acts of torture and underage sex acts... yeah, it gets pretty bad! As I mentioned, this book was fine, but the writing and dialogue seemed wooden and clunky, perhaps due to the translation. The synopsis touts this as a combo of We Need to Talk About Kevin and Goodnight Mommy, but I’d recommend just reading/watching either of those instead. I did like this but there wasn’t much depth here. Also Emma was obsessed with mentioning the brand names or her clothes, household items, strollers... not sure what the point of this was but I assume there was one!