Seventeen year old, Oddily has been bullied her entire life. Her latest foster home with her foster sister, Starla is just the latest in a long line of pain and heartbreak. She longs for the chance to escape the dreariness of her life but until she can she spends her time daydreaming about being someone else.

Maxim and his sister Nexa shouldn't exist - in this timeline at least - and so they keep to themselves, unwilling to accidentally influence or alter something they're not meant to. Right up until Starla bullies Oddily into trespassing on their home, the Stafford Estate and the twins become involved in Oddily's life.

This is a quirky young adult science fiction novel with a lot of potential. Unfortunately it needs a good editor. It's clunky to start with and some of the transitions between scenes don't quite make sense.

Maxim and Nexa are meta humans and identical twins who were born to a father who is a time traveller. The father fell in love with a "primitive" woman while travelling to a different time stream. The woman died giving birth to Maxim and Nexa. Apart from the twins powers, they have advanced technical gadgets like virtual reality glasses and high tech medical equipment. They keep to themselves in order to avoid discovery by scientists and governments who would undoubtedly study them.

Nexa is the most interesting character. Considered to be an angel by Oddily, she's also kind, smart and has the power to read and manipulate minds. Although interesting she spends most of her time on the peripheral of the novel.

Maxim is your cliche romance hero with little personality, great looks and lots of money. That said he is very kind and thoughtful and considerate of Oddily and horrified by the bullying that she encounters at school. He has the power to erase fragments and entire parts of memories and thoughts.

Oddily is the heroine of the novel and was found in a wrecked car as a baby. Since then she has lived in various foster homes. Oddily is an amusing, naive and very young seventeen year old who has an innate goodness about her. She struggles with severe bullying but is still kindhearted, generous and willing to forgive and forget on the off chance someone is willing to talk with her. It was actually kind of heartbreaking. She can be a little stupid and is extremely emotional over everything.

Oddily's romance with Maxim is terrible and is actually pretty painful to read. Every cliche you can think of is thrown at this relationship. It's total instalove, super sweet fluff and will likely be a pleasant read for young tweens but for those that are after a bit more substance it was over the top ridiculous.

But as young and ridiculous as it could be, I actually quite enjoyed Oddily. The story was interesting and kept me interested in finding out more about Oddily, Maxim and Nexa - particularly what happened to the twins father and Oddily's mother.

The use of the advanced technology and how it was incorporated into the story was good, if a bit thin on details. I would've liked to see more world building particularly in regards to the technology and some further detail on the twins' powers and time travel. But it was sufficient to keep me curious. The bullying storyline is wrapped up with Oddily coming to the realisation that she feels sorry for Starla and Kip - not particularly realistic but hopeful for those struggling with it themselves. And the end finds Maxim bringing Oddily home to the Stafford Estate where he'll answer some of her questions.

It's not a perfect novel but it has potential to be a good one with a decent editor. 3 stars. ( )

Somehow my review for this book was lost, so you will get the condensed version.

I paid $.99 for this book and it was almost worth every penny.

Editing was terrible.

Writing was awful:

"She couldn't help herself because her tortured heart was monetarily relieved from its painful place of humiliation."

Direct quote, punctuation and all...or lack there of. This is just one example of several sentences that made me cringe and rewrite them in my head.

I originally bought the book:

a) Because, my Nook was empty and I needed some stuff on there in order to feel good about having it.
b) Because, I thought the premise looked cute for a bit of fluff reading one day.
c) I liked the cover, I liked her hair.
d) I originally saw it on firstreads and figured for a buck, I'd forgo the competition.

Based on that, I deserved what I got...torture. The story line was completely over done, over dramatized and far fetched. All of the trials in Oddily's life could be realistic, but not as exaggerated as they were, it was ridiculous.

In the end, I recommend this book to completely undiscriminating teen girls who like over dramatization and happen to have a lack of pocket money. For that specific demographic, this book is perfect. ( )

I don't remember why I bought this book, it was a while back.

I didn't enjoy it much. It reminds me a lot of Stephen king's Carrie although is quite different. It's a young adult novel, the high school supernatural one. the main plot might be interesting but I just don't connect with it. I'm nott a really time traveler kind of girl.
It's an independent publishing and it has some editing lapses. ( )

I don't remember why I bought this book, it was a while back.

I didn't enjoy it much. It reminds me a lot of Stephen king's Carrie although is quite different. It's a young adult novel, the high school supernatural one. the main plot might be interesting but I just don't connect with it. I'm not a real-time traveler kind of girl.
It's an independent publishing and it has some editing lapses. ( )

Somehow my review for this book was lost, so you will get the condensed version.

I paid $.99 for this book and it was almost worth every penny.

Editing was terrible.

Writing was awful:

"She couldn't help herself because her tortured heart was monetarily relieved from its painful place of humiliation."

Direct quote, punctuation and all...or lack there of. This is just one example of several sentences that made me cringe and rewrite them in my head.

I originally bought the book:

a) Because, my Nook was empty and I needed some stuff on there in order to feel good about having it.
b) Because, I thought the premise looked cute for a bit of fluff reading one day.
c) I liked the cover, I liked her hair.
d) I originally saw it on firstreads and figured for a buck, I'd forgo the competition.

Based on that, I deserved what I got...torture. The story line was completely over done, over dramatized and far fetched. All of the trials in Oddily's life could be realistic, but not as exaggerated as they were, it was ridiculous.

In the end, I recommend this book to completely undiscriminating teen girls who like over dramatization and happen to have a lack of pocket money. For that specific demographic, this book is perfect. ( )