best played at .85

I loved the storyline and the development of the characters. I am definitely going straight onto the second book in the series. The female narrator however reads as if she is a hurry to get through it. I found that slowing the audio down to .85 of the speed really helped.

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Great Character

Stevie is in her 20s, a witch without knowledge of her powers or if she had much of it. I love Stevie, her inner monologue is smart, fierce, funny and confident.

The boys, Doc, Kiran, Baz and Arnie. We also get their POV and it helps a little. Although it doesn't spoil the mystery of what is going on, what Stevie is to them. They are...well not likable thats not the right word...they well built, have enough depth you want to know more, and you remember who is who...but not so much you instantly love and trust them, which is something some RH fail to do.

The story, it's interesting concept. The discovery of power, legacy, prophecy and danger.
The romantic interests is slow burn, but fast burn smut in some cases. I was a little disappointed with the smut, considering some of the lead up and play we get, when it does happen it just felt rushed and didn't make a impact I think it should have made. But that's just my smutty craving needs...

I do want to read the rest of the series, but I am scared it's going to be a big disappointment. There were just so many marks missed, but not missed enough to ruin the book that I am just waiting for it. The characters are what make the book and is why I will pick up book 2 when it rolls out in the book app I use. But I'm not desperately needing to jump back in.

A fun, interesting, spicy read. overall enjoyable
3.5 stars

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Childish whychoose

Reasons to listen:
*R.H./Whychoose
*Academy
*Funny at times
*Decent world-building
*Professor/student
*An actual plot besides their relationships (save the magical world and its peoples!)
*Bully Romance

Reasons to avoid:
*Slightly cringeworthy narrators and like REALLY bad when Stephen Dexter does female voices
*Everyone acts like they are in high school, while pretending that they are not acting like they are in middle school. I mean, seriously. WAY too much bullying at child level, when these are supposed to be university age students
*No real backstory on any of the characters besides our FMC. Who are these people?!? Anyone know? Nope. Ok!
*Pretty much no character development
*All relationship problems are based on 'we keep secrets and refuse to talk to each other' -> repeatedly.

Conclusion: If you want an easy listen, if slightly childish listen. Go for it! Otherwise, eh, there are so many much better paranormal whychoose academy romances out there.

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Difficult to get into this book

This had a fairly simple plot with lots of fluff padding it out. I struggled to get through it. Narrators were fabulous though, but I won’t be bothering with the rest in this series.

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Fantastic!

I loved this book, I was hooked from the beginning and couldn't put it down, I loved Stevie's character she's delicously snarky and she's a fighter, I'll definately be listening to the whole series.

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A great book by a great author with only one annoyance!

Sarah Piper is a great author and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed many of her books. Nicole Poole is one of my favourite Audible narrators but in this series of books I have one complaint about her and Stephen Dexter’s narrative. Call me petty but it’s incredibly frustrating when book character’s names are pronounced incorrectly, especially for main or significant characters! Both Nicole and Stephen have obviously never come across the name “Isla” before as they pronounce it as it’s spelt (The correct pronunciation being eye-la). Despite “Ani” being written in the books description, both narrators call him Arnie. No, these mistakes aren’t huge and don’t detract from the storyline but I personally cringe every time I hear them! (Just saying!).

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A very original story

A fairly traditional good versus evil plot, but the introduction of the tarot cards and the riddles made it a completely enjoyable read.
Fascinating and good characters.
Can’t wait for the next one

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Simply amazing

The story is amazing but the reader sounds like a robot with barely any emotion.

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Great book

This book grabbed from the very first paragraph.kept my interest though out, well worth a credit . Now to listen to books 2 and 3 .

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enjoyable

difficult to get into at first due to female reader sounding very wooden but as book continued she got into character .
storyline is good and i felt i was there with the charactures enjoying their journey. would recomenned!

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