The Academy: The Ghost Bird Series: Introduction

Book Title:Introduction

Author: C. L. Stone

Series:The Ghost Bird

Genres: YA, Romance, Suspense 
Language: English
Published on: 23rd December 2012

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Description:

With an agoraphobic mother and a barely-there father, Sang abhors the isolation keeping her in the shadows. The only thing Sang craves is a fresh start and to be accepted as ordinary by her peers, because for her being different meant being cast out alone.

When her family moves to a new school district, Sang infiltrates a group of boys nearly perfect in every way. Grateful for an influence outside of her parents’ negativity, she quickly bonds with the boys, hoping to blend in and learn from them what it means to have a natural relationship with friends.

Only the boys have secrets of their own and they’ll do anything to keep her safe from the knowledge of the mysterious Academy that they've sworn allegiance to. Bit by bit, Sang discovers that her friends are far from the normalcy she expected. Will her loyalty change when she's forced to remain in the dark, or will she accept that she's traded one house of secrets for another?

Meet Kota, Victor, Silas, Nathan, Gabriel, Luke and North in a story about differences and loyalty, truth and mystery, friendships and heart-throbbing intimacy.

The Academy, ever vigilant.

My Thoughts:

I read this book because of the name. I found it catchy. When I started reading this book I was very curious to know the main genre of the book. At first I thought it is paranormal and that is the secret of academy and I kept waiting for the secret to reveal, but to it is not paranormal(sigh). But its so much better!!!!!!!.
This is first book of the series but its like prequel of the leads and their relation with each other. I liked it so much that I started reading other books in series. They are really great. Author had maintained suspense thought out the series which are reveal slowly, so this make this book of genre suspense also.
I also liked this book because of the boys and there nature, they are so different from one other but are still together and can do anything for one of them. This book also covers the issues of child abuse and how to cope with that trauma. Not only Sang is abused but she is also restrained from going out or making friends but still she find her way to the academy boys.

My rating:

I give this book 4 stars out of 5.

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