I found myself wishing message milk, bubblegrams and magical signatures would just magic themselves into real life. Never before has magic seemed so second nature.

In fact, it made me even more interested in reading book 1, which I hastily ordered after finishing Untwisted. But starting out on book 2 did not leave me wanting – Allen artfully incorporates enough of the happenings in Twinchantment such that I did not feel lost. I was lucky enough to receive an early release copy which was admittedly my introduction to the series. With a case of mistaken identity, a wickedly powerful exile out for vengeance, and time running out for their mother, the twins might just need to make their own magic to save the day.Įverything about Untwisted is alive with color, movement and magic. Enlisting a brave servant boy and his plucky black kitten as their guides, they set off on an epic quest to the Twists – a forbidden place full of dark magic – to find the evil mage who cursed the queen. They traded off various royal duties including attending balls, participating in fencing exhibitions, and making friends with other young nobles, all while hiding in plain sight.īut when the first magical attack in years puts their mother’s life in danger, the girls must break the rules that have protected them to save her. This meant that royal twins, Flissa and Sara, had to pretend to be one princess, Flissara.

Twins, black cats, and other potentially magical beings also made the outlaw list. In the first book in the series, Twinchantment, we learn that magic was outlawed in the kingdom of Kaloon generations ago.