The Culling Trials (Shadowspell Academy #1) -

Shannon Mayer, K. F. Breene

Sky Pony Press

2019

576 páginas

19h 12m

ISBN-13: 9781510755109

You don't choose The Academy. The Academy chooses you.

I had no idea how those words would change my life, until the day the most dangerous man I’ve ever met waltzed onto my farm and left us a death sentence.

My younger brother has been chosen for The Academy: the prestigious, secret school of magic hidden within the folds of our mundane world. A place where there’s no guarantee you’ll make it out alive. If he doesn't go, our entire family will be killed.

It’s the same invitation my older brother received three years ago—and he never came home. The Academy has already killed one sibling, and I’ll be damned if they take another. So I do the only thing an older sister can: chop off my hair, strap on two bras to flatten the girls, and take my brother’s place.

Magic and monsters are real. Assassins are coming for me, and the dead are prone to rise. What’s a girl faking it as a boy supposed to do? Being accepted into an elite school of magic, monsters, and assassins was not my idea of higher education. But here I am, fighting my way through the deadly physical and mental tests of the Culling Trials to claim my right to be taught.

In a cutthroat world where no one is as they seem, the golden rule is simple: Trust no one. The Academy tells us we should just look out for ourselves. That we should leave the fallen behind and ask no questions.

Not on my watch.

Resenhas (2)

4 (Muito bom)

Gostei, mas que pena kkjjkkkk

O livro é bom e apesar da proposta de escola de magia não ser tão nova no mercado, a abordagem é diferente, eles têm que passar por muitos desafios mortais primeiro e a protagonista deu uma canseira neles kkkkjjkkk.

Muito injusto na verdade, esses desafios, já que existem aqueles que já usam MAGIA para passar porque a família tem influência. Mas achei que o livro não foi tão fiel à sinopse porque prometeu uma coisa mais séria e tensa, e todos lidam com isso como um acampamento de férias, sem falar no alívio cômico diário, dá vontade de pegar todo mundo pelo pescocinho e falar "ACORDA DESGRAÇA, TU PODE MORRER AQUI SEU LIXO!"