642 minutes.Paper Quake by Kathryn Reiss. The teenage protagonists were not entirely convincing (maybe it was the twins, but I kept thinking Sweet Valley High) but the book was dramatic and exciting in unpredictable ways.
Violet, a fraternal triplet with identical sisters, longs to share in her sister's twinness and no longer be the poor sickly one everyone takes care of. Her seemingly irrational fear of their California earthquakes, doesn't help, though.
She finds a new sense of self determination as she continues to uncover letters and diary entries from around the time of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake that eerily parallel her own life. Lead on by these clues, along with mysterious dreams and visions, Violet, her sisters, her best friend, and her new "friend" Sam, unravel the events of the past and race to divine what the past might be trying to tell them about their immediate future- which given Violet's visions of fires and buildings collapsing, doesn't look good.
Took some patience to get through, but the end was worth it.
Finally got in my plot-driven book :)
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