In a world where vampires rule the night,In a place where werewolves roam free,In a universe where anything could happen,You have to be ready.I’m a writer. I’m not a fighter, or a hunter, or the kind of girl who carries a sword. I’ve never shot a gun and I’ve never even gotten in a real fight before. I dream up love stories; I don’t cause trouble. At least, I didn’t think I did.But when Flynn … didn’t think I did.
But when Flynn Richardson marches into my book signing and hauls me off into the night, I realize that my books have done more harm than good and I’m forced into a school where the monsters I write about are real.
They actually exist.
And not a single one of them likes me.
Welcome to Big Bad Academy.
It’s going to be a bad year.
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A captivating read from beginning to end! An exciting storyline that leaves you breathless wanting more! Sexy steam filled chemistry! Emotionally heartfelt, enjoyable and fun! One heck of a twisted, intense rollercoaster ride! An amazing must read!
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Heather has been having dreams of the supernatural world since she was 13. Lately the dreams have been getting worse and the only way she can alleviate them and understand them is to write them down. During her first book signing event, Heather is approached by a big, looming man who seems far too interested in her and not her books. Before the night is up, she’s kidnapped by him. He’s in a desperation to get answers fast before the next full moon when undoubtedly another of his werewolf pack will be taken, same as the previous three full moons. The last time one of his pack members went missing, the kidnapper left a page of one of Heather’s books behind. He takes Heather back to the castle turned Academy where his pack lives, and enrolls her in a couple of the history classes so she can understand werewolves better, while they try to pry answers from her.
I was really wavering between a 4 star and a 3 star for this. It tells a good story, it’s got drama, and tension, and romance, and a timid heroine coming out of her shell. It’s just from the blurb and the cover I was expecting more. From the cover picture, I was expecting a young girl (late teens-early 20s) in a large ball gown, attending a paranormal school filled with “monsters” as mentioned in the blurb. What I got was an “average looking” (as described by the hero of the book) cat lady in her 30s (I did like the cats though), the ball gown is only briefly in one scene, the paranormal school felt like it had just been added in so that the book could jump on the whole Academy band wagon and wasn’t really integral to the plot (she sits through a couple of classes, but that’s about it), and the “monsters” were exclusively werewolves (okay, one solitary exception). I mean, it kept referring to the place as a “shifter” school, but all the students were werewolves (which felt rather species-ist, since I’ve read books covering so many other shifter types. And honestly, I’m more than a little tired of werewolves and would have liked to have known that it was a werewolf book up front). I had trouble with the writing. It kept contradicting itself (usually on the following page). For example, it states that werewolves mate for life, then it goes on to talk about this guy who had a wife who died and then fell in love with his pack beta (almost like the mating for life idea got thrown out the window in that situation to make the book more PC). The heroine says she doesn’t want to tempt, but then she strips naked. And calling her average, and then gorgeous on the following page by the same person. My largest beef with this book was the language. It doesn’t hesitate in throwing around f-words and s-words. The heroine’s behavior is erratic and unbelievable. As in the kidnapping, she’s scared and freaked out by her kidnapper, but then she’s suddenly kissing him while he’s attacking her. I mean, who does that? As a distraction maybe, but once a guy does something like that, no matter how gorgeous they are, they turn into jerks in my opinion. And honestly, I never warmed to Flynn because of that. The plotlines her fans were gushing over sounded utterly cliché, and I really couldn’t fathom the attraction of her books. Also, it was like her age got forgotten somewhere along the way. As in she’s 30, attending classes with nothing but teenagers, but yet no one said anything about it, and she just seemed to blend in with the younger kids. (One of the teenagers even says she looks “pretty young”).