The Order of Time

Thanks to the author for giving me this book for free, opinions are my own!!!
OK, let's just start with the cover... It's nice and the gold letters look pretty good, but I don't like the kids. They are a picture and look so weird with the drawing. The sequel's cover though looks pretty good and I like how the kids look, so 1+ star to the sequel already, lol. I mean I'll read the second one too for sure! Just not right now, in January hopefully!
This is a series about these two twin siblings Anastasia and Edward who are different but both are pretty brave and strong. Anastasia loves maths, meteorology and is great at martial arts, she also has pretty good guts! Edward is good at arts, memorizing facts and isn't that self-confident and maybe shy?! I liked Anastasia more though. And they go to this historical museum often and like to help this doctor who reveals there's this agency The Order of Time, and they basically go at the past to fix stuff from these bad guys the Corsairs. Then as Dr. G isn't healthy enough to go, the twins go instead to Ancient Egypt to save the pharaoh Akhenaten and his wife Nefertiti. There are then these evil power-hungry Egyptian gods, assassins, and well a lot of action I guess. I liked that the author actually did quite some research, and I learned more about Ancient Egypt and Akhenaten, especially his claim to make a monotheist religion to worshiping Aten.
While I did enjoy the book, I found some stuff that didn't make much sense to me. Like when the twins travel in Ancient Egypt, they don't really take other names... and no one finds it weird. Also, Edward is blond, ancient Egyptians were pretty dark-skinned, how didn't they find him extremely weird??? Anastasia could have fitted in more ad she has more olive skin and dark hair... but Edward sticks out a lot... Their names are sooo European... I can't believe no one seemed to be bothered by that. And speaking of names, many Egyptian names there were very Arabic sounding, like Salah, Israh and some others... maybe they could be Ancient Egyptian names too... I don't know.
I'd say I enjoyed this book, it has the potential to be a pretty popular series, and it reminded me of both The Magic Treehouse and Rick Riordan's books, so that was nice. It wasn't the best book of course, but tweens can enjoy this. The thing I disliked the most was Salah+Anastasia thing by the end, as it didn't even make any sense... Also, this book didn't really make me feel so excited, or sad at all, I was pretty neutral all the time... I don't know if that's a bad thing or not...