Each student enrolled at Akarnae is there on the basis of their unique magical abilities, except Alex who has yet to discover what her ability is. With strong, friendship based relationships and a chosen one based storyline where Alex's world has been turned upside down. With her two new friends in Jordan and Bear, Alex hides the secret of who she truly is from her peers.Īkarnae features shades of Harry Potter, a boarding school for magically inclined teens. Based on an age old method of sorting teens by their potential, Alex now finds herself within a multitude of advanced skill classes, including combat. Alex has no choice but to remain at Akarnae, with the only person who has the ability to return her to her world, now missing. Where most teens would be an emotional disaster, Alex takes it all in her stride but before she's had a chance to enroll, she's thrown into a world that is not her own.
Alex's story begins with her parents abandonment in favour of their own adventure, leaving her at a new school without helping her settle in. Will Alex risk her entire world - and maybe even her life - to save Medora?Īkarnae was wonderfully written and delightfully surprising, not to mention an incredibly enchanting fantasy. Only she can save the Medorans, but what if doing so prevents her from ever returning home? is looming.Īn unwilling pawn in a deadly game, Alex's shoulders bear the crushing weight of an entire race's survival. She soon starts to enjoy her bizarre new world and the friends who embrace her as one of their own, but strange things are happening at Akarnae, and Alex can't ignore her fear that something unexpected. While waiting for him to reappear, Alex attends Akarnae Academy, Medora's boarding school for teenagers with extraordinary gifts. With just one step, sixteen-year-old Alexandra Jennings's world changes - literally.ĭreading her first day at a new school, Alex is stunned when she walks through a doorway and finds herself stranded in Medora, a fantasy world full of impossibilities.ĭesperate to return home, she learns that only a man named Professor Marselle can help her.
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