The Stephanie Meyer book is being billed as the "only love triangle with only two people." There's an alien inside this lady's body, but the lady doesn't abandon ship like she's supposed to, so her memories affect the alien and they both end up loving the same guy. It doesn't matter. I'm never going to read it.

What does matter, is that the reviewer has made an egregious error. Obviously, Jem, Jerrica, and Rio from Jem and the Holograms is the first two-sided love triangle. And that one is far superior because Jerrica seduces Rio to cheat on her with herself! I knew you would appreciate it as much as I have.

My former partner-in-crime and I have put much thought into this situation. For example, is it cheating if he cheats on you with your alter-ego? Are you allowed to hold it against him if you seduce him with yourself? Are you cheating if you change identities and sleep with your boyfriend cheating on yourself? These are very important questions that are never addressed in the cartoon series. I don't know how they completed three seasons of that show and never once tied up the Jem-Rio-Jerrica plotline.

But here are my thoughts on the situation: Jem is only a hologram projected over Jerrica's body, so Jerrica's body chemistry would still be the same. This means that whatever physical markers that attracted Rio to her, her scent, her pheromones, etc., would still be in place. I would put forth, therefore, that his attraction to Jem, while possibly not wholly innocent, must be understood because he is still attracted to Jerrica. This makes extra sense because Jem's personality is still that of Jerrica's--they are the same person. Jem is just the much cooler, much funner rockstar version. Heck, I would be all over Jem too if I were Rio.

Unfortunately, at one point in their association Rio does pull away when Jem is making her move (see: is it cheating when you seduce him with yourself?) and states that he can't hurt Jerrica. Now--there are a couple of disturbing parts to that comment. The first and certainly not the least is, who wants a guy who doesn't cheat because he doesn't want to hurt us, not because he doesn't want to? You see the difference there? I'd say it's a fairly major one. Now, again, Rio could be granted a pass because even though he might want to, Jem is Jerrica so how could he not want to? Right?

And what if Rio actually didn't find Jem attractive at all? What happens when the cooler rockstar version of yourself is a turnoff to your boyfriend? Was Jerrica driven by this crazy world we live in to seduce Rio just to make sure she could?

This is a very serious situation here people. When dealing with a two-sided triangle all known laws of math and physics break down and even Ann Landers doesn't know what to offer for relationship advice. (For anyone born post 83? 84? Ann Landers predates Dr. Phil as a newspaper columnist relationship person.) And let's say, for argument sake that Rio did sleep with Jem. As Jerrica do you get mad? And why let it go to the point of sex to begin with? Why not tell him you're Jem? But if you choose not to tell him and sleep with him how does that work in the morning? You offer a "Show's over Synergy" and then when you flash back to Jerrica in front of him start screaming and hitting and accuse him of being a no good cheating boyfriend? Seems like that reaction might be a bit hypocritical. It's hard to tell because you know, you cheated with your boyfriend on yourself, but still....there's got to be some ethical problem in there somewhere.

These are just a few of the problems that arise when there are only two of you, but a love triangle is formed. Think about that the next time you buy a pair of fancy pink star earrings and plot the seduction of your boyfriend with your alter-ego. It could all end badly.