For those of you that don’t remember or haven’t heard, Kendall & Kylie Jenner started their writing debut in 2014 with a young adult dystopian fiction novel Rebels: City of Indra, with co-writer Maya Sloan. They’ve now released the second book in the series with Regan Arts called, Time of the Twins: The Story of Lex and Livia, with new co-writers Elizabeth Killmond-Roman and Katherine Killmond, which is on sale now.
Other members of the Kardashian-Jenner family have put out books as well, but they have all been on themselves, where some are intended to be helpful, some a bit more self-indulgent, there’s a cookbook, and then one was a fiction but it was still somehow about the three big sisters? That gets a bit confusing. Hell, Kim even has not one, but two books of literally just her selfies on sale. Though this series that Kendall and Kylie have started really stands on its own, because it’s a freakin’ dystopian future sci-fi fiction series intended for kids. So they definitely get points for creativity.
Now onto Time of the Twins, its a little over 360 pages long and I actually haven’t even read the first book in the series, but the story is self-contained enough in this second installment that you don’t have to read the first book. The short prologue at the beginning sets up the lore and back story enough so you don’t have to be like, “what the fuck, now I gotta read a whole other book before I read this one?”
They’ve actually done a pretty good job of building this future dystopian world. You’re following twins (duh) who are named Lex and Livia, and the story stays true to sci-fi as it’s more centered around the goal of their adventure, plus there’s quite a few fights along the way, and the element of a “love story” or love interest is more of a C story if anything. A con I did notice is that at points things get a little cliché, but it’s for teens and tweens so I want to give it a pass on that. I mean I liked some corny shit when I was a kid, I bought a Smash Mouth CD when I was 12. We’ve all been there.
Now some might ask why I would consider even reading a young adult book. Young adult basically means its intended age range is 9-12 years old or middle-grade. In all honestly I was genuinely interested, and from another stand point it’s an interesting venture because they’re contributing something to get kids to read with their fame, and not being all just modeling and makeup. Overall, it’s a creative story with a strong female duo lead, the youth could only benefit from more positive female heroes, and even if you’re not a tween it’s still a quick cute read.
