Starting a new school is never easy, but this time not fitting in could cost lives.
Despite being raised by shifters, my life was fairly ordinary . . . until I tried to break up a fight and got zapped with magic.
Then, all hell broke loose.
The binding spell placed on me as an infant broke and I found out in a painful and rather unpleasant manner that I’m actually a witch. Sounds great, right?
Yeah . . . not so much.
Now, the very people my birth mother tried to hide me from want to use my concealment as an excuse to push an anti-shifter agenda. The only way to keep my adoptive family—and myself—safe is to enroll in the elite Ravencrest Academy and prove I can control my newfound abilities.
Unfortunately, raw power doesn’t translate into competency and magic alone does nothing to help me navigate the ins and outs of witch society. But even with all the things working against me, I manage to make a few new friends and there’s a spark of something more with the last person I expect.
Still, I can’t let that distract me from the ugly truth that many who walk the halls of Ravencrest are eager to see me fail. To keep the peace between shifters and witches I must succeed . . . no matter the cost.
My Review
I love that we get bits and pieces about the main character but we don’t even get her name a couple paragraphs into the book.
Selene is almost 18, finishing up high school and what they call a blank. She has magical witch parents but doesn’t have many powers herself. She was adopted by her shifter relatives and is very familiar with pack politics. Essentially she is a human in a paranormal world. Her life gets upended by one wrong choice and it changes everything she knows up to this point. She isn’t so human anymore.
I don’t blame her for her feelings and thoughts as she enters this Academy to be honest they are very normal. As if life isn’t hard enough add in political issues and an unfriendly guide Tristan. Tristan is questionable, Adrian and Devin have me laughing as I read this definitely lightens up this book. Oh, I secretly love the forced proximity with the school jerk this is gonna be fantastic. Okay so maybe he isn’t quite so awful their proximity has helped me not to hate Tristan’s character. I really like how the author forced the opposites together with magic making enemies now friends. Oh, this book gets a little teenage angsty as she battles her own feelings and predicaments.
Oh, we get a little ya steam with at least one of the enemies expressing their interest in the other. Their lives are a whirlwind of school, political standings, and of course all things witchy. Selene herself is struggling not only with teenage emotions but with her magic as well. This book gets slightly mundane in the middle of it and I find it not as interesting as I thought the storyline would be. But I do want to keep reading and see where it goes. From hot mess to heroine the end of the book begins to finally lead toward something. I do kinda secretly love that this is more of a “Percy Jackson“-like a book with action and adventure as well as the paranormal and magic.
The end of this book has me at the edge of my seat. I did enjoy the cliffhanger ending of this book; it definitely left some story parts hanging. I’m interested enough to read the second book in the series and I enjoyed the angsty teenage academy tropes as well as the forced proximity and enemies to friends.
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