Danielle Steel's Mirror Image

This is my second Danielle Steel novel I've read so far. The 1st one was not so good; this one, however, is terrific! I've also read her memoir about her son. :(
Anyway, without further ado, I present to you-Mirror Image!
This novel takes place during the turn of the century (20th century). When horses are being abandoned for cars and there were rich people everywhere you turn (Astors, Rockefellers, etcera). It was just after the Titanic sank
Identical twins Olivia 'Ollie' and Victoria Henderson were living the high life. Whenever one's in pain, the other knows it. Since their mother died giving birth to 'em-Victoria thought she killed their mother since she came out eleven minutes later than Olivia-Olivia had been taking care of their father and the house while Victoria had been out acting wild, joining the sufragettes. Victoria also stole their father's car once.
A new lawyer, Charles Dawson, had started working for their father. After hearing his story, Olivia became quite smitten with him. His wife died on the Titanic while his son Geoffrey was put on a lifeboat; it left the kid very traumatized. Charles had to take care of him.
Soon there was business to attend to in New York, where they have a place. They invited everyone and anybody. Victoria became smitten with Toby Whitticomb, a guy with rep for using and abusing women. Although Olivia and their father was discussing it before the party, Victoria paid no heed.
Victoria bought everything Whitticomb said: that he was in a loveless marriage, and that he was gonna leave his wife (an Astor, yeah right) and that they're on the verge of divorce, etcera. They even bunked up in a country house. Victoria, how gullible are you?, lost her virginity to Whitticomb. For 2 months, they shacked up in the country house until her father's lawyer, Charles Dawson, heard Whitticomb bragged about his latest conquest: that the Victoria was the one who seduced him and all those lies kept on coming. At that time, Whitticomb's wife was pregnant with their 4th child. So Victoria confronted him and boy! was he cruel to her. Right after that time, she fell off her horse and miscarried her baby (yes, the baby with Whitticomb). Olivia knew Victoria was in trouble cos she felt her pain like knife stabbing at her. Victoria was hemorrhaging twice. Maybe she had twins?  so bad she had to be taken to the hospital. After she came back from the hospital, their father made arrangements for her to get married to Charles Dawson to regain  her self-respect, to save her rep and her fam's rep.
Before they got married, they met Geoffrey, Charles' son, whom Olivia got really close to. No one, including their own father couldn't tell the twins apart except Bertie, the woman who was like a surrogate mother to the twins  Now with Geoffrey in their lives, he could also tell the twins apart. Olivia even shown him how to tell the twins apart: a freckle on their palm of their hand.
Charles and Victoria's marriage was a loveless one. Whenever Charles tried to get close to her, she wouldn't accept him b/c she didn't love him. She would shake Finally he gave up. They fought day after day using words. Victoria wanted to go to all those suffragettes' meetings while Charles wanted Victoria to stay and run the house and take care of Geoffrey. She wasn't the domestic type; it was up more Olivia's speed, that's why Victoria always ended up asking for her sister's help.
Victoria couldn't take being trapped in this so-called marriage anymore. So she decided to jump ship, so to speak. It was right after WWI. She wanted to be part of the war. She had been going to meetings about the war. Ever since she left Europe (cos she and Charles were there for their honeymoon), she wanted to take part in the war effort.  She decided to switch places with Olivia.  Her plan was pretend that Olivia had taken off California while she goes off to Europe to help in the trenches or whatever. 'Victoria' (in fact it was gonna be Olivia) was gonna stay with Charles and Geoffrey while 'Olivia' (in fact is was gonna be Victoria) was gonna go to Europe.
So Victoria (under the guise of Olivia) set sail on the Lusitania (big mistake-it's gonna be torpedo by the Germans Anyway things at home are going well until the Lusitania got torpedo. Olivia felt Victoria drowning cos Victoria was drowning. (But this is fiction, so Victoria survived.) She felt well enough to send a telegram to Olivia. Olivia was so overjoyed that she surprised Charles who can't tell one twin from another so he thought that Victoria was in his bed, not Olivia-WRONG-that they made love that very night.
Meanwhile in Europe, Victoria finally found out where she was needed. At first it was a lil overwhelming. But she ended up finding a new love, Edouard, along with a few new friends. Life behind the scenes was grueling. Helping out the dying and wounded was hardwork. Sometimes endlessly long. But she managed to tough it out. Edouard and Victoria were joined at the hip. She drove his cars.  She also slept with him.
Unbeknownst to each other, the twins were pregnant at the same time. They even gave birth at the same timee. Victoria gave birth to a darling baby boy  whom she named Olivier. and Olivia named her identical twins Elizabeth and Victoria. Life was good until...
Victoria got injured by a sniper while Edouard got killed.  Olivia and Charles came down to see her. They told him that they switched places. He was furious. But in the end, he forgave Victoria. He let her rest in peace. Olivia saw her sister one last time before she died. Riding on the cruise on the way home, Charles and Olivia got married.
With Victoria's death, Olivia felt a part of her missing.

My criticism on the book? Well I kinda like it, esp. the part where have twin ESP, knowing when one's in trouble or whatever. Do twins really have ESP?! Remains to be seen. Wish I had a twin. Twins are never alone. They always have each other through thick n' thin; they stick by each other no matter what.
And I also like the fact it takes place pre-WWI and during WWI-love history!