January Book Report, Pt. 1

The book I read for this month is Children of the Lamp: The Akhenaten Adventure, by P.B. Kerr. The two main characters are John and Phillipa, who are twins.
In the beginning of the book, the twins are in New York City, and have just had their wisdom teeth removed at the tender old age of 12. The reason they're so young is that they are 'djinn,' which is basically genies but the "politically correct" way of saying genies.
We'll start with John, the boy (obviously). He is 12 years old, like I said earlier. And, also like I said earlier, he is a djinn. But he doesn't know that yet. His face is covered in zits, and he has dark hair. The zits really, really bother him, especially when they "occasionally erupt quite horribly." Yuck. That's pretty gross. Anyways, he is also the older of the twins, which sometimes makes Phillipa really mad at him. But, also, on the flip side, he is a very protective older brother to her, which she likes.
On to Phillipa, the younger twin. She is 12 too, which makes sense (you know, twins). Her hair is a bright red/orangish color, and she has funny looking glasses. She likes to annoy her brother sometimes by calling him "zit boy," which bothers him a lot. When John is protective, she feels very safe and says he seems like "the best big brother in the world."
Both of the main characters are very physically fit, and both pretty smart, too, with Phillipa edging John out a tiny bit in the smarts category. The reason that they're so fit is that they are both claustrophobic and hate elevators. And since they live in New York City, this creates a problem. So they always run up the stairs, which makes them both extremely fit, but also makes them "notoriously late" to everything. As twins, they sometimes seem to possess and unnatural ability to telepathically communicate, not like mind readers, but like they sometimes seem to think the same thing at the same time, or form a plan at the same time without actually telling each other out loud.
Overall, they seem like they might be someone I might like, or someone I didn't really care about, one way or the other, depending on my mood. To me, they seem nice enough, but since their mom is "perfect," and they're considered virtually perfect too, and I think I might be jealous of them.