Writing anything in a creative manner has to be the most inexplicable experience any individual could possibly face. The menacingly white surface castes stars into your eyes leaving blue and purple flecks of color in you're line of vision while you stare at the page wondering what to fill the empty canvas with. Twenty-six letters have the undiscovered potential to come together in millions of different ways to create words. Words come together in millions of different ways to create sentences. Which come to get her to create paragraphs, which come together to create books, which in turn become novels. Novels read by similarly intelligent individuals who envision a whole new dimension the author had formed just for them. And those with the courage to try and resurrect these worlds from twenty-six little letters, are immortalized in the priceless amber that we come to know as literature. So what is it that separates these amazing works of literature, or dimensions, from others? Now, I know this little introduction seems like it has nothing to do with a story that's supposedly supposed to be action packed with the life a teenage girl who comes to learn that she's not so normal after all, do to the powers that course through her veins, however it does express the feelings behind me personally. This is my way of trying to explain to you that regardless of large vocabulary and strong sentence structure, that some stories are so big, so rare, and so special that they cannot be adequately explained through those twenty-six little letters. Some writers will never be encased in this priceless amber simply because their stories are to good to be told, too personal to be shared, and to deep to be understood by others. So here's a story about the simple, yet complicated life of a teenage girl that will never be worthy of the so called priceless amber, known as literature, because it is just to lovely to be loved.
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?