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.