Tuesday, June 14, 2022

Bad Blood (Ever Dark Academy, Book 1) - HP Mallory

There’s no Love and Light without a little Shadow and Dread

This is the first book in the Ever Dark Academy series. The book falls in the Young Adult genre. There is the potential for romance but it isn’t fully explored in this book.

I don’t normally read YA books or Academy books but this was suggested and I actually really enjoyed it. It was fun to read. 

Everly is a young adult dryad with a very bright future ahead of her. She is set to take her mother’s place as the Enchanter; the head protector of the Dryad Circle. She has been training for this her whole life and her next step is to hone her magical skills at the Academy of Enchantment Magic in the realm of Arcadia. It sounds like a life of love, light and sparkly magic. 

It’s not that simple though. Even the best laid plans don’t always go as envisioned. On her way to Arcadia Everly is kidnapped by a shadow demon and wakes to find herself in the realm of Dread. There is no love and light without a little darkness and shadow. Dread is as bleak and terrifying as its name suggests and on the face of it would appear to be no place for the life-giving magic of a dryad. 

It turns out she was expected there. Her host family is a very hot, albeit very antisocial ancient vampire, her escort is a sexy-as-sin incubus demon, and the head teacher of Dread’s academy is the very good looking shadow demon who kidnapped her in the first place.

There is a mystery afoot and although Everly really wants to get back to Arcadia to continue on her planned path, she also really wants to solve the mystery and get to know her annoyingly attractive captors. Learning a bit of dark magic at Dread’s academy before she goes couldn’t hurt… could it?

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