First off, I love this cover. It’s gorgeous and makes me want to pick the book up. Kudos for that!
This was one of the most original fantasy stories I’ve read in a long time. There wasn’t a moment where I was thinking how it was kinda like this book or that book. Even though the book is a novel, it read like a short story to me. I say this both because of how fast the book moved and because of some undefinable characteristic. It just ‘felt’ like a short story.
The world of Twixt is wonderfully inventive with creepy creatures and strange overlords who rule over a scared group of people who call themselves sleepers. None of them know where they are or how they got there. Of course everything changes when the main character is found. Doesn’t it always?
The beginning is a little slow and confusing because you are thrown into this new world with the character and have to learn everything with her. As she learns more and more the pace picks up and it becomes a true page turner.
And the love story? Personally, I would have liked to have seen a bit more of it. What’s there is beautiful and simple, but it is swamped over by the rest of the story. It’s fine because the rest of the story was good, I just wanted more of the girls!
Worth the time and price of admission, definitely pick this one up. Fair warning though, it will get into your head, I had two dreams about it.