Akarnae: The Medoran Chronicles (book 1)

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Akarnae features shades of Harry Potter, a boarding school for magically inclined teens. With strong, friendship based relationships and a chosen one based storyline where Alex's world has been turned upside down. Each student enrolled at Akarnae is there on the basis of their unique magical abilities, except Alex who has yet to discover what her ability is. My only gripe was Alex's parents and how unprepared she was for this next stage in her life, even based on her attending the supposed International Exchange Academy alone. Lynette Noni is a masterful storyteller. Her characters steal into your heart and won't let go!" — Maria V. Snyder, New York Times bestselling author of the Poison Study series The encounters with the villain Aven were incredibly chilling, as he constantly comes to threaten Alex and her friends. Always love a good ultimate villain and Aven definitely meets that criteria.

This is a world of high tech wormhole-like travel, Star Trek-like food replicators, interactive movies and such. Dreading her first day at a new school, Alex is stunned when she walks through a doorway and finds herself stranded in Medora, a fantasy world full of impossibilities. Desperate to return home, she learns that only a man named Professor Marselle can help her… but he’s missing.

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And then I read the book and now I'm totally here for everything else as well. Authors' need to stop writing about awesome worlds that I can't visit and schools that I'd actually want to attend. One of their subjects is purely about horses!! My sore after riding equestrian ass is so jealous. I could just not read these kind of books, but I have pretty much no self control whatsoever so authors' need to take one for team and just stop writing about these freaking amazing worlds. My poor heart can't take the injustice of only reading about them. The infinite, sentient library has a lot of hidden features that only allows some to know it's mysteries. Alex and the guys go on several adventures within it's walls encountering various characters within its walls. The idea is loosely based on many other book series with the whole falling through a door into another world reminding me a lot of Narnia. Other aspects, like others have said is very similar to X-men and Harry Potter. There’s nothing wrong with this and authors always draw inspirations from other novels, but it felt a bit too blatantly obvious in this book and again, I found Whisper to be much more original of a novel to show that she has gotten much better at creating new stories. Alex is such a fantastic protagonist. She falls into this world of magic and takes it all in her stride, going along with it, and copping crap from her new BFFs, Jordan and Bear, whenever she starts to take the magic stuff too seriously. This is a book that's not afraid to poke fun at itself.

While waiting for him to reappear, Alex attends Akarnae Academy, Medora’s boarding school for teenagers with extraordinary gifts. She soon starts to enjoy her bizarre new world and the friends who embrace her as one of their own, but strange things are happening at Akarnae, and Alex can’t ignore her fear that something unexpected… something sinister… is looming. An unwilling pawn in a deadly game, Alex's shoulders bear the crushing weight of an entire race's survival. Only she can save the Medorans, but what if doing so prevents her from ever returning home? The school in the story was incredible and Lynette did a good job at creating such a place where it makes you want to go learn, i myself would love to live in Medora and attend Akarnae because the school seems so cool and the library is defiantly one place i'd spend most of my time for obvious reasons but i won't spoil anything so just read the book! In the 'About the Author' bit it says that Lynette Noni is a huge fan of Harry Potter and Narnia and it shows in this book. I mean, a magical school that the protagonist attends after stepping through a door into another world?? Practically screams both series. However, this book totally managed to stand on its own. The world felt incredibly vivid to me and I can picture all the different places clearly in my head. And guys, it's gorgeous.Almost nothing happens in the book to sway or move Alex. Even if something happens it feels like it gets swept under the rug, and kind of "oh, well this happened, I guess I'll go on with my life". Desperate to return home, she learns that only a man named Professor Marselle can help her... but he's missing. I met Lynette when I was in Australia and she is by far the sweetest person I've ever met! We were on panels together and signings at SupaNova con, which is Australia's comic con. Every time she talked about her book, I was intrigued. I finally had a chance to read it. I loved so many characters in the book, Jordan and Bear were both funny and friends that i would love to have. From the moment we meet them in the story they were the kind of characters that everyone would love to have in there friend circles. I loved Alex's and D.C relationship in the book because i knew that they would become friends by the end of the first book, they both grew and i'm glad that they became friends by the end of the book. All of the teachers were all good characters to i enjoyed them very much, the doctor fletcher was a character i honestly wouldn't see in the school because he seems so cool. Training night and day to be able to master the enhanced immortal blood that pulses in her veins, she takes on a dangerous Meyarin warrior trial that takes her away from the ones she loves. It also strands her in a place where nothing is what it should be.