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The Eighth Guardian by Meredith McCardle
5.0
Book: The Eighth Guardian
Genre: YA
Type: Audiobook.
Book rating: ♡♡♡♡♡♡
Narration rating: ♡♡♡♡♡♡
Review
Well this one is going straight onto my favourites shelf !!
I may gush a couple of times during this review, I do apologise. I also had this as a buddy read so I have to thank Kristin for listening to my rambles haha!
I wasn't really looking forward to this book i have to say, it got chosen also for my Dusty bookshelf so I thought I would get it over and done with, what a brilliant mistake to make!
Amanda is a top Junior student at Peel Academy, it's basically a school for kids that eventually end up in organisations like the CIA or the FBI, that is what they train for. They train for things like hostage situations, guns to the head, hand to hand combat.......you know, normal stuff like that!
At the end of every term they have a "testing" this is to prove how good you are, and for the CIA etc. to choose new recruits.
Amanda completes her challenges but messes one of them up, and also as she is a junior she wouldn't get picked anyway........
After the testing everyone sits in the hall to have the graduation candidates read out by the head, and to receive their envelope with their new career in it (a la Harry Potter)
Unfortunately Amanda has a very funny feeling that her name is going to be read out, her boyfriend Abe tells her not to be so silly.........can you guess what happens?? Yep she gets picked.
Only Amanda gets picked not for the CIA but the Annum Guards, an unknown department run by the government, that deals in time travel!
Now at this point if I was reading this review I would say "right, that's me off then" I don't do time travel stuff, it's just too mehh for me, but I was enjoying the book so I kept with it.
Amanda aka Iris is bound by secrets and lies and taught how to go back in time to "enhance, not alter history"
I loved all of the characters, especially Iris and Yellow, the narration was brilliant and the book was actually very funny as well.
So there you have it, a badass, kickass, time travelling cracker of a read, I loved it and can't wait till the next one in the series is out.
6 ☆
Genre: YA
Type: Audiobook.
Book rating: ♡♡♡♡♡♡
Narration rating: ♡♡♡♡♡♡
Review
Well this one is going straight onto my favourites shelf !!
I may gush a couple of times during this review, I do apologise. I also had this as a buddy read so I have to thank Kristin for listening to my rambles haha!
I wasn't really looking forward to this book i have to say, it got chosen also for my Dusty bookshelf so I thought I would get it over and done with, what a brilliant mistake to make!
Amanda is a top Junior student at Peel Academy, it's basically a school for kids that eventually end up in organisations like the CIA or the FBI, that is what they train for. They train for things like hostage situations, guns to the head, hand to hand combat.......you know, normal stuff like that!
At the end of every term they have a "testing" this is to prove how good you are, and for the CIA etc. to choose new recruits.
Amanda completes her challenges but messes one of them up, and also as she is a junior she wouldn't get picked anyway........
After the testing everyone sits in the hall to have the graduation candidates read out by the head, and to receive their envelope with their new career in it (a la Harry Potter)
Unfortunately Amanda has a very funny feeling that her name is going to be read out, her boyfriend Abe tells her not to be so silly.........can you guess what happens?? Yep she gets picked.
Only Amanda gets picked not for the CIA but the Annum Guards, an unknown department run by the government, that deals in time travel!
Now at this point if I was reading this review I would say "right, that's me off then" I don't do time travel stuff, it's just too mehh for me, but I was enjoying the book so I kept with it.
Amanda aka Iris is bound by secrets and lies and taught how to go back in time to "enhance, not alter history"
I loved all of the characters, especially Iris and Yellow, the narration was brilliant and the book was actually very funny as well.
So there you have it, a badass, kickass, time travelling cracker of a read, I loved it and can't wait till the next one in the series is out.
6 ☆