Twice Lived

I was really looking forward to this book based on the premise, but the execution unfortunately fell entirely flat for me. There are lots of examples, but a few issues really stuck out to me. The construction was sloppy (why were only the parents in therapy/support groups, even if the children tende......more

The book was fine. The plot was a really cool concept, but the writing was kind of boring. The ending was highly disappointing......more

4.5* Gosh, where do I even begin? I loved this book, and was hooked from the start. It was incredibly emotional, and I found the concept so intriguing, and the execution equally fabulous. In Twice Lived, some babies are born with the ability to "shift" between parallel worlds. There's seemingly no r......more

Some people are born as shifters, living two lives in parallel worlds which they shift between at random, splitting their time between the two. But most people settle in one world or the other in early childhood. This is the story of a teen girl – Canna in one world, Lily in the other – who hasn’t s......more

It's an interesting premise, and the concept of losing a young family member abruptly, never getting closure, and just living with a hole 10-miles wide in your chest forever because you lost them really hit home to me as someone who lost a sibling (and one of my biggest critiques is that there is no......more