Interesting World, but awkward dialogues.

First, I want to say that this book was really intriguing based on the prologue. I actually thought that this was supposed to be a horror genre. Although, even if I found out it was fantasy the world was still keeping me interested in the story. There are flaws, however, especially in the writing:

1) The characters (aside from the twins) were sometimes hard to tell apart. In my opinion, there were also too much characters introduced who were all not fleshed out enough for me to remember or care.

2) Some conversations were really cringey and awkward. Sometimes it seemed juvenile.

3) The “romance” was really rushed and out of no where and underdeveloped.

Aside from those main things that bugged me, I thought that this really has potential with a little more editing and revision. It’s a very promising fantasy book that can take some interesting twists if the author chooses (if they decide to write a sequel). I recommend this to anyone who likes a not-so-strict magic system but also has some rules to it, but just remember the flaws I listed at the top so it isn’t a surprise and affects your reading experience.

Thank You for giving me an ARC for this novel!

I enjoyed the story of this book and what it was about, it gave me real Mary-Kate and Ashley vibes at the beginning!!! However I did find it really confusing at some points, there were so many characters that it was a little hard to keep track of them all, at some points I had no idea who some of them were. I think it would have been beneficial to instead of writing the chapters, write who's point of view or who we are following. There were moments I was reading when suddenly the character was switched to a different point of view and I did not know who I was following, so I think that would have been really helpful.

I found this very difficult to get into and was very slow at the start.
Forcing myself to continue it did improve but most of the characters were bland with very little depth.
Younger teens may enjoy this though.

I had high hopes for this novel and found myself to be disappointed. This story had already been done, in the book and movie "Twitches". I was hoping that there would be something that Channing would do differently with the novel but as I got farther into the book, it kept reminding me of "Twitches". There are some differences between the two books but for the most part, I found the premise to be almost exactly the same:
Twins who were sent to another world and didn't know each other? Check.
A storm of evil that caused the other world to collapse? Check.
A mother who stays behind to take care of the other world? Check.
A dead or missing father? Check.
An evil male character who insists on getting at the twins? Check.

I really did want to enjoy this book, the description was what really drew me to it at first, but I couldn't look past the fact that it was so much like another book I had already read. I felt like Savannah and Ellie were very flat characters and had nothing to add. They didn't feel real at all.

I really wanted to like this book but the major problem I had was it seemed as if the essence of the plot was almost exactly the same as from a series of books and movies that were put out about ten years ago called Twitches.

The idea of this being something cool and unique got lost when so much of this story has already been done before; granted there were lots of differences but the similarities just felt overwhelming so I was disappointed in the lack of originality.

In the original story a set of twins was sent from their magical world to a nonmagical one (Earth) because of the threat of an evil darkness which was storming over the world, it seemed to have killed their father as he was trying to save them, was destroying the world and turned out to be the work of a man. The twins were adopted by different families with no idea of each other, their powers or their true home until they were much older. They eventually found each other, discovered their powers and a way home where they found out the truth that only they, together, had the power to overcome the darkness.

Granted this version is a lot more violent, bloody and there are other differences but I just wish the author had used something more unique for her plot outline because the entire time I’m reading this I just kept picturing Tia and Tamara Mowry, the actresses who portrayed the characters in the original movies.