The Academy (The Pathways Tree Series, book 2)
By F.D. Lee
Blurb:
It should have been a Dream Come True - instead, everything was turning into a nightmare.
Bea is the talk of the town – she is the first fairy to ever be accepted to train at the prestigious Academy. Not only that, but thanks to her, the Mirrors are working again and the fae city of Ænathlin is enjoying a rare moment of prosperity.
So when Bea arrives at the Academy she is determined to keep quiet, behave herself and not, absolutely not, get into any more trouble.
But when things start going bump in the night, Bea just can’t help investigating…
Within the prologue of the book we discover a woman being tortured and ends up dying, I believe that we discover who this character is later on in the book, but I couldn't be 100% that it is the character.
The main part of the book starts of with The Raconteur telling stories, and Bea getting ready before leaving for the Academy. Since Bea has been accepted for the Academy she has been getting a mixture of hate and praise mail delivered.
When Bea arrives at the Academy there is a few people that don't like her, especially Carol who she used to watch plots with, who also got accepted to go to the Academy. Everyone thinks that Bea managed to persuade her plotter to get her a position in the academy, which he did but not for the reasons all the others believe.
Reading through this book I felt it was a lot quicker paced than the first book and that the characters had developed a lot more. I also found that it was more interesting as the story had developed and it was a different scene than that kept having its own little problems. I also found that I liked it more because it didn't just stick to the scene at the Academy it also went back to the Aenathelin, and we re-visited Merry and Joan. We discovered what they were doing with their lives now that Bea has left them. I found that really good to be honest, because you get some authors who include these sort of characters in the first book and because the main character moves on the others get forgotten, and you are always left wondering what they were doing or how they got on.
The new characters that we meet that I quite enjoyed was Chokey and her brother the thoughts person. These characters I started liking from the very start because they automatically included Bea and their mother had already sorted all of them a room out. Even though none of them had actually met yet or gotten to know each other. The friendship between these three is really interesting because it is just like Bea is back at home because they always stick by her side and follow what she wants to do even though they don't think it's a good idea. But that's what true friends do, they help you out no matter what.
The discovery of who Bea's plotter is was also a really good, and it sort of made sense how he has different personalities now. It was also nice to revisit things from his past too and meet characters that he knows. It was nice that all of the characters in the end kind of linked up it just fit together perfectly.
The adventures within this book were a lot more detailed and felt more realistic. At times I did feel sorry for Bea because she just seemed to be getting a lot of bad luck all at once and nothing seemed to go right for her again just like the first book. There was times that I was really proud of Bea too especially overcoming her fears with the witchelin and becoming a totally different person and thinking things through. I found that she was really brave to especially fighting the fae she had to and trying to keep things to herself again so she didn't get anyone else in trouble.
The next scene I'm about to describe may possibly be classed as a spoiler so if you don't want to know skip this paragraph.
*SPOILER*
I found when Bea tried to overcome her fear of the witchelin quite hilarious, I really did not expect her to do what she did. I was expecting her to smash the bottle and then start killing the witchelin.
I'm looking forward to reading the third copy to see what happens in the next book, as the ending was so sweet I loved it. I want to know what other adventures we will go on and what other plot twists and problems occur with the characters.
Favourite Characters: Bea
Read: 14/11/18 - 22/11/18
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