I love Christine Riccio and have been following her for years. I love that she has successfully moved from noon reviews to writing her own books and I had high hopes for her sophomore novel. I wanted to read this book and was so excited to receive the ARC.

Better Together promised to be a combination of Parent Trap and Freaky Friday, two movies I love. But unfortunately, this mashup has not worked well for me while reading this book. None of the characters felt real to me--every character is a caricature of one major personality trait rather than multidimensional. The plot sounded like so much fun, but the execution requires the reader to remove all sense of disbelief before the touch of magic happens. I think this book would have been good if it had focus on only a Parent Trap or Freaky Friday plot, but the combination did not work for me.

I know Christine has heavily edited the first part of the book after the ARC was released so I hope that the final copy will be an improvement. Unfortunately, at halfway through, I don't have the desire to continue reading this book between the character and ploissues. It was a hard decision to DNF this book and I'm so thankful for the ARC. I will continue to support Christine and hope her third novel will be more successful with me.