Twitches 2: Building a Mystery

Alexandra is mad because Camryn wants her to meet some of her friends. A little of the back-story to the two girls is also given. The twins have also been warned about someone who is looking to hurt them but will try to pass as their friend.

One of the school bullies accosts an innocent girl and Camryn manages to teach him a lesson without anyone knowing it's her doing it, The girl acts like she knows the twins.

Alex ends up getting in trouble in one of her classes on the very first day of school. After they get home Alex and Camryn don't get along very well. During their arguing the necklaces the girls wear pulled them towards each other and connected, resulting in voices which they think were the voices of their real parents.

A school bully attempts to assault the two girls but they manage to stop him. First, it seems the charms they wear are doing it, but then they begin to figure how to work the magic themselves.

The problem is that once they have the bully on the floor and all twisted up, they realize they don't know how to untwist him, but somehow he ends up getting untwisted anyhow.

Another problem ensues when a girl wants to befriend the two sisters to the point of becoming a pest.

Later the actual history of the birth of the twins is revealed, along with the death of their father. They also find out their mother was a witch, they have powers themselves and, Ilena and Karsh are guarding over them.

Then a boy one of the girls is interested in turns out might be involved in an accident where a young child was hit by a car. Or he could also be the messenger from Thantos who is after them.

The girls want to help try and heal the boy and go to the hospital to help him where they are joined, unexpectedly, by Karsh. They end up healing the boy then decide to go to Boston to confront the girl who had been blackmailing Cade.

That they do and they settle the score on that account. Later they end up confronting the messenger from Thantos and manage to subdue it, Ileana taking the creature to the Council.

This is the second book in the series and has some good aspects and some not-so-good aspects. The main problem is that you can tell who is the messenger almost as soon as you find out there is a messenger. There's no suspense, really, about that issue and it becomes a question of not "who" but "when" will the girls find out.

The rest of the book is fairly decent, especially in relation to how the two girls are still basically still getting used to each other. There's a lot of potential in the series.

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