This series topped the teen YA Wizards & Witches Fantasy eBooks charts for months. Find out why readers say “If you are a Harry Potter fan, you will love this series!”On her 16th birthday, Caroline Destine’s safe, happy existence is thrown upside down into uncertainty, mystery, and magic…Caroline returns home from school on her 16th birthday to find her mother and brother missing, with no … birthday to find her mother and brother missing, with no sign of a struggle and no clues to their whereabouts. Caroline’s estranged aunt and next of kin, the mysterious Marguerite Destine, brings Caroline to stay with her in France at the prestigious school where Marguerite is Headmistress. However, the students at Destine Academy aren’t your typical gifted and talented academics. Caroline finds herself surrounded by a world filled with four factions of magically talented individuals, each with their own special skills. There’s the friendly witch Nadine Landry of the Magiques, and the handsome and flirtatious Corbin of the Surnaturals with his preternatural strength and skills. Even the sullen and unapproachable Magique Aldrick Vieux can’t help but intrigue Caroline, who finds many more surprises in store for her in this fascinating world, truths that throw everything she thought she ever knew into question. But is she ready for this new knowledge, or for the potential dangers of this unfamiliar new reality?
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This is less then an hour read. It will keep you wanting to finish it, and want the next book now. We have Caroline that just turn sixteen. When she gets home and finds her mother and brother missing. What happens next is her Aunt showing up and carting her away. What has happened to her mother and brother? Why can’t she stay with her friend until they are found? What is this school that her Aunt runs? Is it real? Can she fit in until her family is found? What is really going on with her Aunt? I own and also recieved a free copy for my honest review
OMG, I was just getting my teeth into this book and it was suddenly finished! It teased my interest enough to want more, hopefully a longer taste next time, but I definitely want more, somecgreat narration by Melissa Topscher!
This is the first book in the series what a great start.
Caroline the main character in the book returns home from school to find her brother and mother missing….no signs of a fight or any clues.
Caroline goes to stay with her Aunt who is the headmistress of the school which she attends.
Hear is were Caroline meets all sort,s of students of magical talent at the Academy.
This is where it all starts with how she interacts with the students ,what happens and how she uses the Knowledge she learns.
With a great story plot many twists and turns.
Great trials can she cope with the learning and dangers it involved.
To enjoy and understand what i am about you will have to read the book as i did.
Happy Reading………..
One moment and your life is changed completely. Caroline arrives home on her birthday for a fun evening of celebration . Yet no one is there to greet her. It’s like they all vanished. She is then taken by her aunt to an unfamiliar place. Will she make new friends and new enemies. What is happening to her family, where are they and are they even alive? Cliffhanger ending I have to read the next book.
In the first volume of the “Destine Academy Series” by Sara Snow, we meet the heroine, Caroline Destine on her 16th birthday. What should have been a happy moment in Caroline’s life, turns out to be the beginning of a brand life.
With Carolina mother and brother missing without a trace, Caroline ends up under the care of her mysterious aunt Marguerite Destine, who does not hesitate a single moment in uprooted Caroline and move her to Paris, by enrolled her in the prestigious Destine Academy, from which she is the Headmistress.
Once there Caroline learns about a whole new world, full on magic and supernaturals and not only has to question everything she believes but also here own heritage.
The book is a blend of action, adventure and self-finding with the occasional dose of teenager angst, inserted in a canopy of bright urban fantasy tropes that are all the more enticing for feeling familiar and brand-new at the same time.
It is a well-written book, a page-turner with enough action to keep the reader interested and still enough character development to be invested in not only the main character but most of the secondary ones.
A very good introduction to a new YA Urban Fantasy Series.
ONE INTRIGUING ADVENTURE!!!
Fantastic! Sara delivers one enticing approach with such ingenuity, immense passion, and unique insight, presenting this arresting storyline and engaging plot, melding this baby together sleek, shiny and tight. This gem maybe quick but there ain’t nothing short about it. A multitude of intimidating trials and challenging tribulations, noting the compelling twists and wicked turns, testing our characters in ways they could have never envisioned. Anarchy, escapades and havoc run amuck, kicking this bad boy into a raging tempest, blasting it into a tailspin with a life-altering culmination. The dynamics and countenance in layer upon layer that you peel back with each page your drawn into this web so deep until everything else ceases to exist. The realism and authenticity of the characters as their on point personalities blend and connect along with the graphically detailed scenes, paint an epic backdrop that makes the storyline pop. Fantastic job Sara, thanks for sharing this bad boy with us.
This is a quick read that introduces a young girl who is just turning sixteen who has her whole world turned upside down when she gets home from school to find her mother and younger brother missing in the midst of what they were doing.
I was intrigued with it and I recommend it for all those who like the paranormal universe. I will be reading this series and writing reviews as I go.