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bookishelflife 's review for:
Arcana Academy
by Elise Kova
Thank you so much to DelRey books for my digital ARC
"There is no world in which you do not consume my very being"
This was just a fabulous book to get lost in, the story hooked me from the get go and it was so hard to put it down. Let me just say that Elise Kova's Tarot card magic system is not only magnificent to read but also a sheer brilliance to see how the story was woven into it, it is refreshing albeit took me a hot minute to understand how they work but once I had that sorted out it was just so fun to read the story. There is a detailed explanation of how the card magic works towards the end of the book in the glossary, it came in quite handy as I tried to navigate the world.
Speaking of the world, the delicious dark academia set in a wold ruled by powerful monarchs and the Arcanist's magic is strictly controlled by the Arcana academy and its enigmatic head master Kaelis. When Clara, an illegal Arcanist and a thief is imprisoned after a job goes horribly wrong, fate presents her with a rare second chance of getting out but only if she is willing to form an alliance with the void born second prince Kaelis.Their push and pull chemistry combined with fabulous magic system and world building made this book an easy 5 star for me, there are a lot of twists and many moments that gives you trust issues through out the book. It is a chunky one but I ended up enjoying every single chapter!
The battle scenes were one of my favorite's, they were unique in every way.The little found family was endearing and I can't wait to see more about them in the next installment and of course with a great story comes a great excruciating pain of waiting for the sequel especially when you are read the book quite early and with an ending like that that only makes the wait time even harder..DelRey if you read this just put me down on the ARC list already for book 2 pretty please ;)
"There is no world in which you do not consume my very being"
This was just a fabulous book to get lost in, the story hooked me from the get go and it was so hard to put it down. Let me just say that Elise Kova's Tarot card magic system is not only magnificent to read but also a sheer brilliance to see how the story was woven into it, it is refreshing albeit took me a hot minute to understand how they work but once I had that sorted out it was just so fun to read the story. There is a detailed explanation of how the card magic works towards the end of the book in the glossary, it came in quite handy as I tried to navigate the world.
Speaking of the world, the delicious dark academia set in a wold ruled by powerful monarchs and the Arcanist's magic is strictly controlled by the Arcana academy and its enigmatic head master Kaelis. When Clara, an illegal Arcanist and a thief is imprisoned after a job goes horribly wrong, fate presents her with a rare second chance of getting out but only if she is willing to form an alliance with the void born second prince Kaelis.Their push and pull chemistry combined with fabulous magic system and world building made this book an easy 5 star for me, there are a lot of twists and many moments that gives you trust issues through out the book. It is a chunky one but I ended up enjoying every single chapter!
The battle scenes were one of my favorite's, they were unique in every way.The little found family was endearing and I can't wait to see more about them in the next installment and of course with a great story comes a great excruciating pain of waiting for the sequel especially when you are read the book quite early and with an ending like that that only makes the wait time even harder..DelRey if you read this just put me down on the ARC list already for book 2 pretty please ;)