Supernatural Academy Year One

✧ 3 stars. ✧ "Knowing I have you guys in my corner... it means everything. I would cut a bitch for you. Girl power, my friend. This is girl power." I guess I'm out of my reading slump, or trying to. This book took me a while for that reason: my reading slump has last at least 3 months, and I'm slowly recovering, lol. I'm still debating so hard with this one. Maddison James lives a "normal life", moving on from city to city and changing her hair color every year on her birthday, january 1st... Until a tracker finds her and tells her that she isn't human and has to go to an Academy to learn how to control her power or she will be dangerous for the humans, yada, yada, yada. I like books with the academy / boarding school trope, because I missed my teen years due depression (that's a story for another day, lol) and so, I think they're pretty cool, entertained and a little bit refreshing. I like the idea of making new friends who will be with you fighting darkness and that kind of shit. This one, however, didn't feel as much as I expected (that's also why I don't make illusion with books in general). Maddison is recluted by Ilia and she goes to the Supernatural Academy. But there's something weird with Maddi: she doesn't know where does she fits, in which specie: demi-fae, magic users, vampires, shapeshifters, etc. Year One is basically a high school with people of 20+ years old. We have the girls who think they're superior than everyone else, the irrelevant people, the daughter of the princeps and the hot guys who don't mix with the other kids, and that also are so fucking powerful because why not? Maddi draws the attention to her in the moment she arrives to the Academy. Maddi falls into the arms of the super popular, hot, rich and powerful boy, Asher. The conection between them two is so goddamn fast. In matter of seconds, they know something is going on between them... The normal thing, right? The bad bitches mess up with Maddi and warn her to stay away from the hot kids. Another total normal thing. The pace is a little bit fast. Some characters are easy to love or to hate. Maddi is annoying, I still don't know if shelf this book as "badass female mc" or as "stupid female mc" because Maddi was both sometimes. In the second half of the book, I get to dislike her. Asher was pretty good at the beginning of the book. It was towards the end when he became the asshole overprotective "hero" that believes he can decide over the girl and ugh, I wanted to kick him so bad. AXL IS MY FAVE NERDY HOT BOY, DON'T YOU FUCKING TOUCH MY BOY. Rone was being hostile with Maddi at first but suddenly he's like "I will protect you" and ?????? wHAT THE FUCK!! Jesse and Calen are sweethearts and I must protect them but still, they lack of personality and development. This is not a reverse harem (I don't like them tbh), even if it feels like that. While many people likes the bad boy with dark hair, edgy and rude and annoying, I like the hot nerd dude who's always with a book. Don't ask me why, I just know I love that type of guy, yES, AXL, I'M TALKING TO YOU! I wanted to kick Maddi for being an idiot the 99.99% of the time. She was feeling horny or rejecting the possible idea of being part of an ancient specie and was like "nO wAy I'm ThAt SpEsHuL, i JuSt CaN't", which is annoying as the fucking hell. Trust me, there's nothing that exasperates me the most than a girl trying to pretend that she isn't speshul, when she clearly is it, because hello, the book is of your pov. The girl-on-girl hate was stupid and pointless, because the bad girls don't even work out as secondary characters... And the author ditched them so quick and easily. But this trope is normal in books like this, so. I'm not complaining, there were a couple of good moments, but some felt really dry, senseless and pointless. This book had a lot of potential and it got kind of wasted. I don't know if my many questions will be solved in the second book or I'll accumulate more, yikes. And I found many plotholes, jsjsjs. Many characters were irrelevant (and probably used just to fill a gap and show Asher like the asshole he is, yup), the romance between Maddi and Asher a little bit rushed, same between Ilia and Calen... The time in which everything happens is weird. One day can last like 3 or 4 chapters, and a month can happen in one paragraph, which left me kinda confused and annoyed. It's a 50/50 for me and I guess I will pick up the second one, but not yet because my currently reading list it still a little bit bigger for me, lol. bUT IF AXL DIES, I WILL RIOT AND BURN THIS WHOLE FUCKING WORLD FOR HIM.

This was an easy and enjoyable read. I actually finished it in an afternoon.. In the beginning I was afraid this would be a reverse harem, which I just can't read or enjoy, because of my constant eye rolling and laughing... but it wasn't! I liked the fact that the characters were in their twenties and that most of them were likeable, I liked how the world and magic works and I loved the whole situation with the food and cleaning in the academy being magical and very easy :P It wasn't obviously a book with unique characters or plot and the relationships / friendships were a little forced in the beginning.... Most of these paranormal books, that are taking place in an academy with a special protagonist, seem to follow a formula. Despite of that it was pleasant and I appreciated that it was not about shifters and vampires, like most of the others are, but there were also Atlanteans and fey. I actually haven't read a good paranormal book about Atlantis before, so I hope the series will explore this aspect more.