Disappointed. I had expected something else I think. I was excited about the ideas of exploring the nature of the Self, especially online with deep-fakes, AI, and just the normal masks we wear everywhere. However, I got something entirely different from this.

The writing, while competent, was largely a meandering pile of political ideologies in retaliation to a lot of far-right theories. It covers a lot of ground -- anti-Semitism, climate change, gun rights, QAnon, etc. Firstly, I am aware of my left-leaning political biases. Therefore reading this was an echo chamber of thoughts and ideas, and did not challenge me in any meaningful way. Most of the time I thought, "yes, and what is your point?"

Secondly, from the onset, I find issue with how Klein defines "doppelganger". Her issue with Naomi Wolf is just that she gets mistaken for her sometimes -- which is understandable, I feel that people get names of celebrities mixed up all the time, but by no means does anyone think that Klein looks like Wolf and vice versa. The premise seemed to be a flimsy thread to tie in Klein's views all together.

I also did not appreciate the "otherness" of language, even if I disagree with far-right fringe theories from Wolf, I don't like how we're calling that political spectrum a "shadow realm", "mirror world", or even "other Naomi". It just feels like it's adding fuel to the fire of political polarization that is so rampant.

Only in the first few and last chapters did the idea of mirror images of each other and the Self get explored, but really, most of the book read like a giant reactionary rant against far-right ideology and a "I am not Naomi Wolf!" cry.