Creepy tale of twins transported to a world out of 1930s monster movies.
5 stars
The characters and plot mesh together better than the previous book. It doesn't tell us much new about Jacqueline and Jillian, but we get a deeper understanding of how messed up their childhood was. (Parents, remember: children are people, not status symbols.) And why one would jump at the chance to be adopted by a vampire, and the other would take so well to becoming apprentice to a mad scientist.
And of course, there's what really happened when they returned to the normal world!
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