I was a little let down by this book. I was drawn into the cover/style of the book, it seemed like something I would really enjoy (even though I don't particularly enjoy stories with twins, I don't know what it is but twins just kind of weird me out, just one of my many quirks). However, the narrator is so damn annoying, it made the book more of a chore to read than anything else. I guess the snarky narrator is popular for kids now, probably stemming from the success of the Series of Unfortunate Events. And I loved Snicket's books, as a kid and still today. But this narrator was just annoying with all the "tell me how amazing I am" parts and then saying how stupid the reader is ("you probably don't understand what's happening, it's ok, thank god you have such a brilliant narrator to help you"). It got old really quickly and it ended up taking up the bulk of the book. I'd say the story with the twins was maybe half (?) of the actual writing and the rest was the narrator taking over. Maybe this is what kids are really into now (which makes me sound like an old grump but alas) but I just didn't get the appeal.