Review: Enthralling and exciting...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 27, 2013
Fantasy is, without a doubt, my favorite genre. As such when I saw "The Academy" I knew I had to have it. What an amazing find! Original and engrossing, this is a premise I've not yet seen done in quite this way. I've always been fascinated by futuristic tales and what diseases or epidemics may lurk there. Asa is a very relatable and intriguing lead protagonist. He's not perfect (thank goodness!), nor the cardboard cut-out stereotype which plagues so many YA novels, what he *is* happens to be smart and savvy and in possession of a survival instinct that is second to none. In other words he is precisely the kind of character that grasps your heart and makes you want to follow him through his journey and his struggles.Very enthralling tale - I can't wait to read more of this series!