2 / 5 Stars – almost DNF
I know, I know, it seemed that everyone that I knew was recommending this series. While it sounds like it would be right up my alley, it just wasn’t.
I love the premise of it. I love the world. I enjoyed Ruthless Boys of the Zodiac which is set in the same world, but I just couldn’t love this one.
This book switches back and forth between the viewpoints of the Vega twins. These sisters grew up in the mortal world, then were suddenly told that they’re fae, they’re the last of their rich line, and they have to go to Zodiac Academy in order to qualify for it. These girls had nothing, were barely scraping by, so yeah it seemed like a no brainer.
What followed is one of the most painful books that I’ve read in a while. The writing itself wasn’t bad, which is why it gets 2 stars not 1, but the story was just painful. Literally, the girls are picked on and bullied from day 1. Lots of people enjoy the consent-non-consent thing. I myself do at times too. This was just NON-consent. No thank you.
Everyone keeps telling me to just get through this book, because it’s really later in the series that it gets good, but we’ll see.
As for the possible love interests or whatever, I’m ok if the Vega twins power up and destroy them all. Not kidding. If bully romance is your thing, then this has that in spades. The bully part at least.
CW/TW NON-CONSENT
I read this in December. Then forced myself to keep reading. After getting through the 4th book, probably a fourth of which I skimmed through (which I never do), I needed a break. I won’t be reviewing the others any time soon and will probably wait until the whole series is done before I even attempt to try to read this again. I hate not knowing how things end, but I’m not sure that I want to know that badly.
Book blurb from Goodreads:
You have been selected to attend Zodiac Academy, where your star sign defines your destiny.
If you’re one of the Fae, elemental magic is in your blood. And apparently it’s in ours. As twins born in the month of Gemini, we’re a rare breed even in this academy of supernatural a-holes.
Changelings were outlawed hundreds of years ago but I guess our birth parents didn’t get the memo. Which means we’re totally unprepared for the ruthless world of Fae.
Air. Fire. Water. Earth.
No one has ever harnessed all four of them, until we arrived. And it hasn’t made us any friends so far.
As the rarest Elementals ever known, we’re already a threat to the four celestial heirs; the popular, vindictive bullies who happen to be some of the hottest guys we’ve ever seen. It doesn’t help that they’re the most dangerous beasts in the Academy. And probably on earth too.
Our fates are intertwined, but they want us gone. They’ve only got until the lunar eclipse to force us out and they’ll stop at nothing to succeed.
We never knew we had a birthright to live up to but now that we do, we intend to claim our throne.
We can’t expect any help from the faculty when it comes to defending ourselves. So if the dragon shifters want some target practice, the werewolves want someone to hunt or the vampires fancy a snack then we have to be ready. But we’ve been looking after each other for a long time and fighting back is in our blood.
Today’s horoscope: totally screwed.
