I’m still working my way through some older reads in this series, but I thought I’d start mixing them in with more recent ones. I’ve mentioned a few times that I want to use Kindle Unlimited again soon and by the time this post goes up (I’m writing it in September) I may have potentially used it by then.
The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake
I had no idea this was on Kindle Unlimited until very recently. Only the first book is available, but it’s a great way to try out the series. I’ve also only read the first one, so I can only recommend this one.
If you’re a fan of secret societies and books that focus heavily on character development, The Atlas Six is for you. It wasn’t my favourite read ever, but it was very well written – very poetic.
Synopsis: The Alexandrian Society, caretakers of lost knowledge from the greatest civilizations of antiquity, are the foremost secret society of magical academicians in the world. Those who earn a place among the Alexandrians will secure a life of wealth, power, and prestige beyond their wildest dreams, and each decade, only the six most uniquely talented magicians are selected to be considered for initiation.
Enter the latest round of six: Libby Rhodes and Nico de Varona, unwilling halves of an unfathomable whole, who exert uncanny control over every element of physicality. Reina Mori, a naturalist, who can intuit the language of life itself. Parisa Kamali, a telepath who can traverse the depths of the subconscious, navigating worlds inside the human mind. Callum Nova, an empath easily mistaken for a manipulative illusionist, who can influence the intimate workings of a person’s inner self. Finally, there is Tristan Caine, who can see through illusions to a new structure of reality—an ability so rare that neither he nor his peers can fully grasp its implications.
When the candidates are recruited by the mysterious Atlas Blakely, they are told they will have one year to qualify for initiation, during which time they will be permitted preliminary access to the Society’s archives and judged based on their contributions to various subjects of impossibility: time and space, luck and thought, life and death. Five, they are told, will be initiated. One will be eliminated. The six potential initiates will fight to survive the next year of their lives, and if they can prove themselves to be the best among their rivals, most of them will.
Most of them.
Shadowspell Academy (The Culling Trials #1) by K.F Breene
If you are looking for somewhat of a quick read then this series is definitely for you. I breezed through these books and if I’m being honest that’s probably why I liked them.
One negative that I have about this series is that the ending seemed far too abrupt. I was not expecting the story to end where it did but I think a second series following new adventures with Wild and her crew does exist. I may potentially check it out.
Full of twists, turns and moments of comic relief, The Culling Trials series is perfect for any reader who loves a quick but suspense-filled read.
Synopsis: You Don’t Choose The Academy. The Academy Chooses You.
I had no idea how those words would change my life. Or how they’d changed my life already…
Until the day the most dangerous man I’ve ever met waltzed onto my farm and left us a death sentence.
In an invitation.
My younger brother has been chosen for the prestigious, secret magical school hidden within the folds of our mundane world. A place so dangerous, they don’t guarantee you’ll make it out alive.
If he doesn’t go our entire family will be killed.
It’s the same invitation my older brother received three years ago—the same place he mysteriously died.
The academy has already killed one sibling. I’ll be damned if they take another.
I do the only thing an older sister can: chop off my hair, strap on two bras to flatten the girls, and take my brother’s place.
Magic and monsters are real. Assassins are coming for me, and the dead are prone to rise. What’s a girl faking it as a boy supposed to do? That’s right—beat the academy at its own game.
Or die trying.
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