Ten best-selling authors. Ten paranormal tales. One page-turning supernatural academy story in this spinoff from the award-winning Havenwood Falls universe.
For more than a hundred years, Sun & Moon Academy has taught the supernatural youth of Havenwood Falls, but it’s now expanding to the brand-new College of Supernatural Guardians—an elite training program for a covert army. After a series … program for a covert army. After a series of difficult trials to test their worthiness, only the top tier of applicants are admitted to the hidden college under the mountain.
With a powerful mix of shifters, witches, vampires, fae, and others, this is no ordinary university, and with tough classes and combat training, it’s not the usual college life. Still, ten of SMA’s first students find a way to forge friendships, ignite rivalries, and discover that there’s always room for romance. After all, no other place in the world teems with such a sexy fusion of brains and badassery.
But classes haven’t even begun when danger arises, spreading terror across campus. And the perils keep coming, challenging these students to their limits. A hacker who threatens to publicly expose their school, a string of vampire attacks, wild beasts with deadly bites, cursed classrooms that devour anyone who enters . . . and it doesn’t stop there. If the students don’t defeat the obstacles thrown at them—and ensure they all survive—this first semester of SMA just might be the last one ever.
In this unique anthology of over 750 pages, you not only get ten paranormal fantasy novellas, but one sweeping story that will have you flipping pages until the end.
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Justine Winter The Havenwood Falls universe is expanding, this time with a whole new type of supernatural creatures: college students.
This semester launches the introduction of Sun & Moon Academy, a College of Supernatural Guardians that acts as an elite training program for a covert army charged with protecting the world’s supernatural community. Students are offered acceptance by invitation only, and after passing a series of grueling trials to test their worthiness, the top tier are admitted to the hidden college under the mountain. This semester ten students will find themselves “marked” in a series of personalized trials that require them to defeat monsters and mayhem that threaten to destroy campus before time runs out. This is not your typical classroom exercise either. The longer each marked student takes to succeed, the higher the body count grows.
The first collection in the new Sun & Moon Academy spinoff features ten paranormal tales from some of the Collective’s award-winning and bestselling authors, including Kristie Cook, Tish Thawer, Belinda Boring, Rose Garcia, Victoria Flynn, EJ Fechenda, Amy Richie, Victoria Escobar, and Justine Winter. In addition to the collection’s variety of authors, the diversity of supernatural creatures you can expect to find in attendance at SMA runs from vampires to shifters, to angels, and even Valkyries. The students themselves, when they’re not practicing magic, include a host of new faces, familiar family names, and an inclusive student body that takes care to represent the diverse voices of a true university campus. SMA, with its Norse mythology flair and an under-mountain campus that makes Hogwarts Castle look plain by comparison, is truly a home for all furred, fanged, and feathery.
As with any collection, some stories are stronger than others, but all remain true to the unique voice of Havenwood Falls, proving again publisher and Universe-creator Kristie Cook’s unquestionable talent for collaborative world-building and visionary storytelling. Personal favorites in Sun & Moon Academy Book 1 include EJ Fechenda’s “Time to Live”, a story about a time-spinning witch who finds herself torn between the ghost of a boy she visits in a netherworld and her love interest in real time, and Rose Garcia’s “Chasing Time”, wherein Infiniti Clausman (a recent addition to Havenwood Falls High, the universe’s YA fantasy line) finds the power within herself to overcome her challenge.
Whether it’s a supernatural love-triangle you’re interested in or something a little darker, it’s impossible not to fall in love with these characters and their world. As for this reviewer, I’m still holding out for my Hogwarts letter, but if a wooden puzzle box with a star and moon etched on top shows up on my doorstep, I might trade in my wand and head to Havenwood Falls and Sun & Moon Academy instead.
Kristie Cook Tish Thawer Belinda Boring Rose Garcia Victoria Escobar E.J. Fechenda Amy Richie Victoria Flynn
The first book in the Sun & Moon Academy series is a trilling anthology of 10 paranormal fantasy novellas is set in the Havenwood Falls world. It follows the first group of ten student to attend the Sun & Moon Academy, which is a college for supernaturals that are being tested and trained to protect the world’s paranormal communities. Each novella is an individual tale but they are all interconnected and build seamlessly onto the overall story.
This exciting, fun book shares the ups and downs, dangers, trials and relationships encountered by the students. It is full of action, suspense, angst, mayhem, love and menace, and has a role call of shifters, vampires, witches, Valkyrie, and angels, to mention just a few. I really can’t pick a favourite story, I enjoyed them all. As with any anthology some were stronger than other but they all built onto the overall arc, leaving you with a great addition to an already captivating universe. This set of stories easily grabs your attention and keeps you enthralled right up to the surprising twist at the end.
Such an amazing collection so stories, that flow so perfectly together. This set follows the first group of student to attend the Sun & Moon Academy. Their first semester is full of up and downs like any school. However the stakes here are even higher and some are deadly. Each story really flows into the next and yet you could also ready them individually if you really wanted, but I suggest reading them in order for the fullest experience.
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SMA Fall Semester was a freaking ride! Each story started where the last one left off, they flowed so smoothly! These authors are A-MAZ-ING! I need more, like yesterday! While you don’t need to read ANY of the previous books, I loved knowing who everyone was prior. This whole town is something special. Love, love, LOVE! (No, that’s not the four letter word I started with)
Forget Hogwarts. I want to go to the Sun & Moon Academy. This is one the best anthologies I read. I got teary eyed when I finished reading it. Not because of anything that happened in the book. Necessarily. Because I was finished, and it is THAT good. I need more!! *re-read coming soon*
The flow of the whole book was effortless. Each story rocked on their own, but together they were magical.
I loved ALL the characters. I couldn’t pick a favorite, so don’t ask me too. From the student to the teachers, and everyone in between. The authors did an outstanding job writing them.
Havenwood Falls just gets better and better with each new book.
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Nine fabulous Authors provide interconnected tales of paranormal college students attending The Sun & Moon Academy Book One: Fall semester.
I so very much enjoyed meeting each student, and delving into their social and academic worlds, as challenges were presented to them. Each author found a way to create a world within a world, and provided angst and fear, lust and love and loyalty, and mystery to tie it all together.
Kudos to this tremendously involved group of authors, for allowing us a seemless ride through our hopes and fears and creating a force of writing that made me excited for the next semester!
Kristie Cook, Tish Thawer, Rose Garcia, Belinda Boring, Victoria Flynn, E.J. Fechenda, Amy Richie, Justine Winter, and Victoria Escobar – You are all MARVELOUS! This book is a creation of love and it is obvious! Well Done 🙂
I’ve not read anything related to Havenwood falls – yet – but I will be!
This instantly engaging anthology of short novellas follows ten different characters inside of one larger story. So much fun and a very well executed concept! Getting to follow around each character for a bit was so enjoyable and despite the different authors, the styles flowed very well and it was a smooth transition from story to story.
I tried to pick a favorite character, and Rhian is right up there, but I found I really liked them all for different reasons and the setting of this school was just tremendous. Just a really fun change of pace read. If you like NA, college age paranormal, this is a great choice!