Great book. It has a slow start but are introduced to the The Ghoul early on so you know shit is about to go down. Aria and Cali are twins separated for really sad reasons. There's past family trauma to sort through and evil that just won't stop. I liked the horror in this and the mystery and the family bonds. I really enjoyed this. I think this fits better into the new adult category rather than YA. Thank you to NetGalley for an ARC

Current rating: ~3 stars

I was intrigued from the first chapter, but the book slowly started losing me as it went on. There were several points where I wanted more to happen, and it didn't feel like the two protagonists did much. The story overall was quite predictable, but I didn't feel the urge to dnf since I was still relatively interested and it was quite short anyway. I liked reading about the different relationships in this book (mostly the familial ones), though there was also a romance that wasn't given enough development for it to feel needed to the point where the love confession just felt random and out of place.

Thank you to the author, publisher, and Netgalley for the eARC in exchange for an honest review.

In Twin Tides, Aria and Caliste live very different lives. Aria goes to Georgetown, hangs out with best guy friend/crush Phillip and struggles to make ends meet since her Aunt Thu is in poor health. Caliste is a wealthy influencer in California who has frenemies not friends and strained relationships with her dad, her stepmother and her Grandma. What is missing from both their lives is their mother- a woman who has been missing and presumed dead for years. They finally get a phone call that her body has been found in Minnesota- in a town they did not know that they had ties to. They arrive at the local police station at the same time and realize that they are twins who have been separated for years, with not one adult in their lives ever mentioning the other. It’s obvious that their family has a lot of secrets and that the death of their mother is tied to something bigger and more sinister than they can imagine.

I did end up enjoying this book although the first 80 pages are pretty slow. I thought the story had interesting supernatural elements. I did not think that the antagonist of the story was written very well - the character was just a basic villain.