Twin Time

Twin Time

Christopher Werby

  • 4.3 out of 5
  • 19 ratings
  • 459 pages
  • PG-13
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Overall Content Rating: Parents Strongly Cautioned PG-13

This story blends family life, mystery, and peril across time or place, with children and adults navigating secrets, travel, and tense relationships. Language stays relatively tame for much of the book, with occasional mild expletives and idioms rather than constant swearing. Parents should know there are scenes of injury and blood, including home treatment and a gravely wounded adult, plus references to political violence and forced entry. Dialogue includes mild put-downs and a sharper insult about disability in a high-stakes discussion; there is no sampled explicit sexual content, slurs, or strong profanity on the scale provided.

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Crude Mild

8

Characters sometimes use dismissive or insulting language when they are worried or arguing, including a harsh label for intellectual ability. Frequent mild wording calls ideas, places, or mistakes foolish rather than graphic crudeness.

Amazon reviews mentioning crude

Specific words
  • stupid: 6
  • idiot: 2

Profanity Mild

3

Strong language is light and infrequent. A single mild expletive appears in dialogue, and two common idioms express worry about getting in trouble, without harsh swearing throughout the book.

Amazon reviews mentioning profanity

Specific words
  • hell: 2
  • damn: 1

Violence Moderate

7

Physical danger and injury come up in a historical or adventure setting. Characters deal with bleeding wounds and aftercare at home, an adult is seriously hurt and pale from blood loss, and there is talk of armed men and ideological violence in the region. Most other physical actions are non-injurious.

Amazon reviews mentioning violence

Specific words
  • blood: 6
  • kick: 1

About this book

Alex and Sasha are twin sisters, physically identical down to their freckles. But the resemblance is only skin deep—Sasha is profoundly autistic, while Alex is not. Sasha can’t communicate and acts bizarrely, and the family revolves around her and her intense needs. Yet the aged, wealthy, and mysterious Aunt Nana seems to have a particular interest in both girls. Offering a helping hand, she encourages the family to move to San Francisco to be near her. And when the young twins discover a tunnel in Nana’s tool shed, it leads them on a journey across the world and back 100 years in time. The tunnel is a pathway to the Firebird Estate, the home of their ancestors, located in rural Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century. Even more remarkable, through the effect that twisting time has on cognition, Sasha is not autistic when she’s at the Firebird Estate. Now, growing up in two strikingly different times and places, the twins must face their separate destinies among the ravages of the incipient Russian Revolution. Can they save their families on both sides of the tunnel? Can they simultaneously stay true to their own hearts, to each other, and to the people they left behind? Each sister must face her own personal challenge—but only together can they discover their own future within their family’s past. Read more