Brynn of Haversey is a spirit whisperer—a person blessed with the ability to see and speak to the dead. In the country of Amerin, she’s one of a select few with magical gifts known as whisperers.Every year, the Royal College accepts a small number of new students, all magically inclined, all whisperers. Competition is brutal and the classes, nearly impossible to pass for a half-breed angel with … angel with two left feet and a massive pair of black feathered wings.
Oh, and especially if she brings her six ghostly boyfriends with her to the academy (including the recently deceased crown prince, a master thief hanged for his crimes, and a former student of the Royal College). What kind of spirit whisperer is Brynn of Haversey if she can’t exorcise her own soulmates? But Brynn isn’t attending the most prestigious academy in the world to become a better exorcist—she’s searching for a way to bring her lovers back to life …
SPIRITED is a full-length (300+ page) reverse harem romance with a (slightly) clumsy but still kick-butt angel heroine and her six boyfriends who just happen to be ghosts. This book includes foul language, violence, and sexual situations.
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If you love reverse harem with the exceptional world building of Sarah Maas, then look no further. Loved this book.
Spirited: A Reverse Harem Fantasy Romance (The Academy of Spirits and Shadows Book 1) Kindle Edition
by C.M. Stunich
I borrowed this book via the Kindle Unlimited program. I am choosing to leave a fair and honest review.
Spirited is in fact spirited, with word play and name games. Humor rides along with the ghosts that Brynn of Harvesty can see as a Spirit Whisperer. She and her handler have attempted to be admitted to the Academy, and with their final try, they get the Queen’s clearance to attend… As long as they return her heir, Air, to life
Stunich is the masterof Academy RH, with such hits as the Burberry Prep and Havoc at Prescott High under her belt. With this in mind, I expected to have complex heroes and herions. But without the Bully Dynamic that Stunich has used to great effect, the future reverse harem falls a little flat. There is no pathos running about the men. Brynn is also a little less than complex as well. There is no sexual tension in any of the relationships.
There is a lot of smexy time, however. Even that doesn’t pick up the pace of the book. In fact, several of the sex scenes seem to be story stoppers and really has no deeper point to it.
The plot is a bit flimsy and could have been narrowed down to a novella, not a trilogy
2 ½ stars rounded up to 3 stars
https://www.amazon.com/Spirited-Reverse-Fantasy-Romance-Academy-ebook/dp/B0785GRXVD
Wow I absolutely adore Brynn as a character. She is strong and capable of so much. She goes through so much trouble throughout the book and as her harem is starting to form I’m left anxious for the next book.
I really loved this audiobook version of Spirited by CM Stunich! I think its my favorite of hers thus far, and thats saying something haha. I have heard these narrators before, even just on one of CM’s other series, and they improved on this one and I didnt want it to end. I am dying for book 2 to be on audio, but I will wait patiently….mostly
About the story first off….I will be honest that this book took me a little bit to get sucked into. Not sure why, but even with the action packed beginning, it wasn’t until about 1/3 of the way through the story that I had a hard time putting the book/audiobook down. I really am falling for all these different characters and love the concept of ghosts and spirit whisperers. I already have read book 2 but I am rereading it now because of how amazing this audiobook was. So Brynn keeps getting more potential loves, more of them become ghosts unfortunately, and there is a lot of scheming going on that the group is unaware of. Everyone is going to have to come together to get the ingredients and to figure out how to make this spell work. I have to say I really fell for all the guys, except Trubble, Dire, and Spicer since they are more new, even though Trubble is totally BA and Dire’s fight and feelings at the end of the book pulled at all my heartstrings. I know I will love them even more after book 2 and really really hope book 3 happens this year. I need to know how the HEA happens!!!
For the narration, like I said before, Kylie and Eric were on point. I will say something that could be improved upon that made me sometimes teeter between and 4 and a 5 stars were the pronunciations of some of the words. Like Air’s real name, the land they were living in, etc. Kylie would say it one way, then Eric would say it a different way. There were times Eric changed his pronunciation in the same chapter of a certain word haha. Things that could be found before production and it would have been perfect. I will definitely listen to any book these 2 narrators do. I couldn’t believe how awesome Eric made the different guy voices and you could tell who was who right away, especially Trubble and Talon. Amazon job!!
Highly recommend this audiobook! Love, Love, Love . My one concern is finally getting book 3 released. I am totally good with waiting because CM is brilliant and writes amazing stories. I just want book 2 on audio like NOW (haha I know, super greedy over here) and hope and cross my fingers we get the ending this year for the series. I NEED TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS hahaha.
I’m a huge fan of this author and I’m not sure how I missed this book when it was published. But, I’m glad I found it now. What a wonderful story. The characters are unique and incredible. I loved every second of it and I’ve already grabbed book two.
This was phenomenal! I absolutely love C.M. Stunich’s writing, sense of humor, characters, creativity, everything. This was a combination of all the best elements crammed into one seriously awesome story arc. Brynn is an amazing character with unconventional parentage, a unique skill set, uncommon powers, and even more unconventional love life. She just wants to get into the Academy and be a normal college student, but circumstances arise that make her college career anything but normal. But I guess being in love with a prince isn’t really normal to begin with, is it? This poor half angel whisperer can’t catch a break when she gets saddled with a seemingly impossible task, and the company of many ghosts that are depending on her to help them all while trying to keep up in this cut throat Academy.
All of these characters are awesome though. Jas the best friend, companion and human scholar, and all her men, Air the prince, best friend and love of her life. Eli is the college student turned ghost now lover. The sexy Vexer, a griffin and master of the travelers guild, and Spicer the young and sexy ghost professor. Dyre the kitsune and my two favorites Trubble, Dyre’s sexy as hell brother with a perverted sense of humor and zero brain to mouth filter, and Talon the thief that once stole a kiss from Brynn.
This book has a ton of action, magic, sexy fun, danger everywhere, rivalries, budding romance, fight scenes and ghosts galore! It’s a flubbing awesome read with creative cursing, sassy, kick butt and take charge women and more. I highly recommend that you all read this book!
CHARACTERS: 5 OUT OF 5
PLOT: 5 OUT OF 5
WORLD BUILDING: 4 OUT OF 5
FLOW: 4.5 OUT OF 5
OVERALL RATING: (ACTUAL) – 4.5 OUT OF 5
The characters in this book were fun. I loved how the MC would not curse and how she got around that, some of the substitutes were really funny and in places I found myself laughing out loud. The guys were all uniquely different and it was nice to see how the MC played off them. The descriptives of the MC were great, the image of a beautiful girl with long white hair and a realistic body image.
The plot was well thought out and pacing was consistent. I would like to have had more details about the gifts and the gods as well as the abilities and gifts they gave. Overall this is a great story, with brilliant characters and loads of hot guys (Vex my fave). One of the best RH I have read.
Brynn is an awesome MC, she is quirky, clumsy, and goes through a lot but just keeps moving forward. I llike the world Stunich has created. It is interesting and unique. This is the first book in a trilogy and does und on a cliffhanger. I can’t wait to see where the series goes!