Review: Great start to the series!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 15, 2013
Sophie is a student at The Lotus Academy with her best friend Lillie.  At a young age, Sophie and Lillie discovered that they had supernatural powers.  Sophie is an Oracle with the ability to see the past and future as well as sense others emotions .  Lillie has the ability to heal the injured.  As students at The Lotus Academy they meet 4 other students also with powers, Tristan, Jackson, Aidan and Morgan.  All 6 of the students are connected in ways that only Sophie is able to interpret and have visions of.The Awakening begins very quickly since the characters are all introduced to each other immediately.  This made it difficult to read and understand initially.  They didn't know each other prior to their meeting, so as certain characters have an instant chemistry without a lot of dialogue it made it a bit confusing in the first couple chapters.  However, that is my only complaint.  The story is fantastic.  There is something always going on.  Action, suspense, grief, a little romance and some witty moments, Aidan and Morgan are great comic relief to the storyline!  While I feel this book had to compound A LOT of information in order to explain backstories and characters, I believe it will make for a very powerful and exciting series and I truly cannot wait for the next installment.  This book does contain a cliffhanger, but will make the next one that much better!