Synopsis:
“Life is full of crossroads, Alex. Full of choices.”
Returning for a second year at Akarnae Academy with her gifted friends, Alexandra Jennings steps back through a doorway into Medora, the fantasy world that is full of impossibilities.
Despite the magical wonder of Medora, Alex’s life remains threatened by Aven Dalmarta, the banished prince from the Lost City of Meya who is out for her blood.
To protect the Medorans from Aven’s quest to reclaim his birthright, Alex and her friends seek out the Meyarin city and what remains of its ancient race.
Not sure who—or perhaps what—she is anymore, all Alex knows is that if she fails to keep Aven from reaching Meya, the lives of countless Medorans will be in danger. Can she protect them, or will all be lost?
Review:
Alright book dragons. If you are following me on Instagram over at @bluefairytales_ you may or may not know that my opinion of this book which I shared in a story BLEW UP! I received hateful DM’s about ‘how I am too stupid to review books’ and ‘how dare I’ and so on and so forth from FANDOM accounts for this series. And lucky that I have thick skin and the hateful words of other just makes me laugh. What I do like that is that Lynette has a passionate following that aspire and adore her work.
Let’s start with the positives. I’ll give credit where credit is due, Lynette Noni is a captivating writer, you can be in any mood and be pulled into her worlds with ease and in such a few lines. Not many authors are as captivating as she is and this is coming from someone who isn’t a fan on the series. I will however keep an eye out on Noni’s work because her mind is just fantastic.
Another positive is the world building, it is fascinating and well explained without your mind trailing off with about unpaid bills.
Also Aven. The bad guy and at this stage the main reason why I am reading this book, I’m predicting or rather hoping that he gets more brutal.
Alright now let’s talk about the small and silly aspects of this book that KILLED ME! And not in an enjoyable crush your heart kind but the rolling of the eyes kind. This whole book is rose coloured glasses. Nothing more. Nothing bad can happen to the all might hero Alex, and literally everything always presents itself at the right time to save her because we wouldn’t want our leading lady to have a rough time and actually save herself.
Alex needs to get into this magic door. Oh a key just suddenly appears!
Alex gets stuck in a bad situation. There a muscle bound guy there to help.
Those are examples but you get my drift.
I’m not a massive fan of Alex, I mean at all. And every time I think of her I think of killing her ‘death by a thousand cuts’ style. Mostly for my own amusement. For someone that is meant to be a teenager, the hero of the land and a pretty savvy chick, she acts and speaks a majority of the time like she is a year old with a bad attitude, which everyone fawns over like she carries the cure for cancer in her pocket. Will Alex actually win anything for herself? Who knows?
So besides D.C and Alex, the remainder of our characters are men, who all seem to joke with Alex, touch her should ‘supportively’ and all the flirting. The amount of sexual tension in this book was ridiculous. I grow bored at a love triangle but this book is something else. The male characters out stage the females, which isn’t a problem I much prefer males to females anyway, but every single male in this book idolises her and it makes me ehh *vomit* Can’t deal. No deal. Check please!!!
The parents, or the lack of? Oh our daughter is now attending this mysterious school in another world and there is a bad guy after her. ‘Oh good luck hunny and enjoy yourself!’ Umm seriously? Who the hell let’s their child go to another world and have zero means to contact them. At least Hermione Granger wrote to her parents. And on that side note, none of the adults spoke, nor behaved like adults.. at all??
This book was almost a high school orgy fest. There is already the premise story line of a war literally on the verge of starting, yet we need to add these teenagers needy for love and affection in there as well?
D.C is sooo irritating. Can she please be a casualty of war please? Or a flight of stairs? Or can someone just push her in front of a moving vehicle? Any of the above, I’m not fussy. She is daft, annoying, whiny and kills my brain cells where ever she opens her mouth. Just killll herrrr alreadyyyyy.
Bear. Meh
Jordan. Meh
I don’t hate Bear and Jordan I just don’t find them interesting, or interesting enough to care about.
Also that ending… well I figured it out real early on.
Over all this wasn’t a book I would read again however I will be finishing the series because my life is based around reading and supporting Australians and Noni has some talent, I’ll give her that. We definitely need some more brooding bad guy moments!
Rating: 1.5/5
Publisher: Pantera Press
ISBN: 9781921997624