Prophecy Girl by Cecily White Series: Angel Academy #1
Published by Entangled Publishing on April 2013
Genres: Paranormal, Young Adult
Pages: 368
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Amelie Bennett: Ending the world, one prophecy at a time.
I was born to slay Crossworld demons.
Big black flappy ones, little green squirmy ones. Unfortunately, the only thing getting slain these days is my social life. With my high school under attack, combat classes intensifying, and Academy instructors dropping right and left, I can barely get my homework done, let alone score a bondmate before prom.
Then he shows up.
Jackson Smith-Hailey. Unspeakably hot, hopelessly unattainable, and dangerous in all the right ways. Sure, he’s my trainer. And okay, maybe he hates me. Doesn’t mean I’ll ignore the wicked Guardian chemistry between us. It’s crazy! Every time I’m with him, my powers explode. Awesome, right?
Wrong.
Now my teachers think I’m the murderous Graymason destined to bring down our whole race of angelbloods. Everyone in New Orleans is hunting me. The people I trusted want me dead. Jack and I have five days to solve the murders, prevent a vampire uprising, and thwart the pesky prophecy foretelling his death by my hand. Shouldn’t be too difficult.
Getting it done without falling in love? That might take a miracle.
I was a bit apprehensive about reading this originally as I had read lots of negative reviews comparing this to both Richelle Mead’s Vampire Academy and Cassandra Clare’s Mortal Instruments series. As I actually like both of these authors and the aforementioned books, I figured that chances are I would probably enjoy this one as well! And I did, while it wasn’t earth shattering and it did read like a mix of other Young Adult books on the market it was still fast paced, entertaining and just plain fun.
The main character Amelie is a demon hunter and mischief maker at her school. The book starts off explaining that a number of faculty members had died at the hands of a Greymason which is just the first of many introductions into the creatures and mythology of this paranormal world. On the first day of a new school year Amelie meets a young new instructor who she has instant chemistry with, and together through a series of unfortunate events the 2 of them discover they are at the centre of a prophecy that will have major repercussions on this world.
I quite liked Amelie as a main character, she was tough but fun and full of self confidence. For all her boundary testing at school she actually loves the idea of being a guardian and it is clear quite early on that she is stronger than she realises. Through finding out her back story and family past you are also introduced into the world of bonding and what happens when a bonding is rejected and let me tell you, if I was 17 and told I was going to be matched to another student for the rest of my life by the powers that be, I would be much more freaked out than these guys were!
The love interest Jackson was hot! I really enjoyed him and while this was an instant love type deal the chemistry between the 2 was really well handled it didn’t come across badly like many insta-love couples do. He definitely started out in the treat her mean, keep her keen camp but I think it was pretty obvious to the reader that there was an underlying reason for that and as the story progresses you find out more about why he keeps Amelie at arms length through most of the book.
The pacing of this book was definitely fast and action packed. I enjoyed this as it meant that I read the book quickly over a couple of days. In saying this however there were parts where the plot felt a little jarring and it probably would have come off more polished with more build up. I found the actually start of the book a bit of a shock as it almost felt like you had missed the introductory chapters and just fallen into the story part way through and the pace seriously just doesn’t stop until the book finishes.
Overall I think this book has probably copped a bit more flak than it deserved and if you are wanting something easy and fast paced to read that is similar to books such as Vampire Academy, City of Bones or the Mythos Academy series then you’ll probably enjoy this one too.
– Fun fast paced read.
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