Title: “First Frost”
Series: (Mythos Academy, #0.5)
Author: Jennifer Estep
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
Publication Date: July 1, 2011
Genres: YA, Fantasy, Paranormal
Romance
Reviewed by: Books4Tomorrow
Source: Purchased
My star rating: 3/5
SUMMARY
I am Gwen Frost, and I have a Gypsy gift.
It's called psychometry - that's a fancy way of saying that I see images in my
head and get flashes of other people's memories off almost everything I touch,
even guys.
My gift makes me kind of nosy. Okay, okay, maybe a lot nosy--to the
point of obsession sometimes. I want to know everything about everyone around
me. But even I don't want to know the secrets my friend Paige is hiding or the
terrible loss that will send me to a new school - Mythos Academy, where the
teachers aren't preparing us for the SATs, but to battle Reapers of
Chaos. Now I have no friends and no idea how my gift fits in with all
these warrior whiz kids. The only thing I do know is that my life is never,
ever going to be the same…
REVIEW
Here’s
another series which has received a lot of hype, so I decided to start with
this novella as an introduction to the series to see if I might enjoy
it…aaaaand, it’s a yes and no. Let me start with the “yes”. One of the reasons
I would read it is because I have a fondness for stories with a boarding school
/ academy setting. Another reason would be because the series sounds as though
it might contain elements or characters from Greek mythology – which I can
never get enough of anyway. Those would be my two reasons for wanting to read
the Mythos Academy series.
My “no”
– why I wouldn’t delve into the series this minute - is because for some
reason, the author’s writing is a little too simplistic. I finished Jennifer L.
Armentrout’s Obsidian (Lux, #1) only
yesterday, and I’m still on such a high from that fantastic book, Jennifer
Estep’s writing pales in comparison. It’s just not drawing me into the story,
and although this is a novella and only so much can be done in so many pages, I
have read novellas where I’ve felt an instant connection with the main
character(s) in less than twenty pages. Also, I don’t see what the title “First
Frost” has to do with anything in this novella. I’m sure though it would make
sense once I read the rest of the books in the Mythos Academy series. I really
do want to read it as per my “yes” reasons above, but I’m hoping the entire
series won’t read like it’s written for ten-year olds.
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