Pandora's School for the Magically Gifted, is no Hogwarts. It's not this hopeful place for children full of wonder and enchantment. It's a decrepit castle half intent on falling in on itself. It's not located on a beautiful scenic lake, or a magical enchanted forest, with beautiful mythical birds and unicorns. It sits in the nose bleeds of the world, sunk into the top of a crest of the Carpathian mountains in Romania. There is a forest, in fact once you leave the grounds all you will find are sudden drops to your death and kilometers of perilous dense trees. The only access to the castle being a one lane road that winds against the crack of the mountain and is inaccessible by car 70% of the year. So in a nut shell, the perfect place to put a boarding school. And no it's not just the finest witches and wizards that grace the halls but also the monsters that humans warn their children about. Shapeshifters, Werewolves, Demons, Angels, Ghosts, Witches, Fae; Seelie and UnSeelie and yes, the occasional Vampire will be starting this school year trapped together in a stone cage they call a castle.
So there's this joke: A Kitsune, a Necromancer, a literal Popsicle, and the most dramatic Unseelie princess known to existence, get stuck sharing a dorm room together and it goes like, this:
(Rated M for violence, murder, sex and all of Sasha's shit)
Five Star Reviews for Atlantis Academy:
"Omg this book was amazing I couldn't put it down or stop reading. I carried it with me open on my phone while I did everything just to keep reading. I need more of all of this. Epic story, epic content, epic visuals, just epic. LOVE THIS!"
"Once I got into this story, I did not stop reading it. This is a beautiful story about a very awkward girl who is riven with so much pain and angst and yet... this makes her who she is and shapes her into the person she will become. The world she finds herself awakened to is magical and yet filled with the all-too-familiar cliques and tribes of the very human people who inhabit it. One word to describe the story: beautiful!"
"The story pulls you headlong to the end and leaves you wanting to shout "No! Not yet!" ...If there were 6 stars, I would have given it that."
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Humanity is one secret society away from extinction.
The children of Atlantis use magic to keep us safe.
If they make it through the Academy.
Hi, I'm Lyric. And I'm kind of a mess.
ADHD, that's me.
I'm a high school drop-out, late everywhere I go, and one screw-up away from being homeless.
I'm a loner, and I like it that way. Who needs friends when you have a Redwood forest nearby? Trees never bully me like the kids did at school. Or get drunk and throw things at my head.
After my mom died, I figured life couldn't get much worse.
I thought it might even get better.
Ha.
The universe has a great sense of humor.
I should've listened to the rumors about evil spirits. About the angry, ancient magical creatures haunting our small Oregon Coast town. But did I?
No.
That was my first mistake.
And it might be my last.
'Cause now I'm in a battle for my life.
A whole new world has opened up... a magical world I don't understand.
And the blood in my veins says I belong here.
But I have to prove myself to save myself.
And when have I ever done that?