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Blood & Betrayals

By: Jeanette Rose, Alexis Rune
Narrated by: Corvin King, Mercedes Manning
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The first book in the epic Avalon University dark academia series, perfect for fans of the Zodiac Academy and Atlas Six series, about a young woman who enrolls at the magical Avalon, where she must uncover the secrets of her past, find the mysterious benefactor who paved her way, and stop a sadistic killer who threatens to drench Avalon in blood.

Fear, fury, and fire.
To know is not enough.

Power flows through the ancient halls of Avalon University like a neverending flood. Admission to the elite institution enables students to hone their magic under the watchful eye of their icy headmaster.

Summer Tuatha De Daanan planned to slide through her tenure at Avalon, unnoticed and inconspicuous. She has no interest in learning more about her past or why someone applied to the school on her behalf. Her emotional walls keep everyone at bay, and her sharp tongue makes people give her a wide berth. Yet, despite her best attempts, her emotional armor begins to melt from her feral vampire roommate to the angelic senior who is never dissuaded by her feigning disinterest. Maybe this could be good for her, a new life. Yet, dark secrets lurk in the halls of Avalon, and soon those same halls are drenched in blood.

Summer finds herself as the obsession of the sadistic stalker with the warning: Seven lessons to learn. With the help of her new friends, she races against the clock to solve the mystery, hoping to save lives and catch the killer before it's too late. Fantasy Paranormal Magic
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I finished this yesterday and I still don't quite know what to think or feel, I couldn't stop listening, it's mysterious and intriguing, beyond that I'm trying really hard not to include spoilers so, there are only a few books where I really like the Golden Retriever type MMC's and this is one of them but I also like The Stranger and felt/feel torn, normally there would have been a lot more revealed by the end of the first book in terms of the bigger overall story but I don't care and I'm ok in that regard to where we're at, I just have a head full of theories and a heart full of hope for the next book, (one of those hopes is that it turns in to a RH after the first book 😏) the found family, magical world, variety of magical species, the hat tips to well known stories were all great, I had a couple of of niggles and these are just personal - I normally notice when words or phrases are used a lot and it doesn't bother me but I felt the nickname got overused to the point I did find it annoying, also I really enjoy books where there is insta love, lust, mate bonds that instantly snap in to place etc etc but with this book all the relationships went from strangers to all in in an instant and it didn't feel organic? 🤷‍♀️ idk? but on the flip side early on there wasn't a load of unnessary guff to get to the point where peeps knew each other well, anyway! both narrators did an excellent job but Corvin King was on fire! so hot, and the cliffhanger - I'm not going to be more specific in case I give anything away but WTH!!! roll on Sepetember for the next book

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good book, thoroughly enjoyed. look forward to next book. can't wait to see where the next book is going to take us.

if you struggle with cliffhanger wait for a couple more books.

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Summer & Connor
Fantasy Romance
Dark Academia
Fae, Shifters, Vampires, Angels, Sorcerers
Found Family
Black Cat x Golden Retriever
Stalker
Murder Mystery

This book is SO GOOD!!!

The audio is incredible! It's duet narration by Corvin King and Mercedes Manning and I LOVED immersive reading this one!

It's definitely giving Zodiac Academy vibes, so if you're a fan of ZA then I think you'll love this one too!!

I love the plot and I couldn't wait to read more and find out who was behind the murders!!

The last 10% or so I was obsessed, could not, would not put down. And the absolute cliffhanger of an ending 😱😭😭😭

I need book 2 now please!!!! ❤️

Incredible!! I need book 2 now!

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The narration actually made me carry on with this book for an additional 30% because they actually did an incredible job of bringing the characters to life. It's just a shame this was so unnecessarily long.

DNF at 59% - I tried, I really did TRY and I am gutted that this book and me didn't connect because it has so many ingredients that usually work for me: a magical university, fae, vampires, angels, rune magic, murder, a mysterious stalker and a headmaster who quite clearly knows far more than he is letting on.

Unfortunately, after making it through more than half of this absolute UNIT of a book - I've decided to DNF for now.

My biggest issue was the pacing. This is a 700+ page book and at 30% I genuinely struggled to tell you what had actually happened beyond attending classes, parties, Summer and Connor hooking up, getting into trouble and then hooking up some more. I love spice, but there came a point where I was begging everyone to put their clothes back on so we could actually get to the plot that was promised in the synopsis.

When the murders, stalking and mystery surrounding Summer finally started to develop, I was much more interested. I really liked the rune magic in particular and I was genuinely curious about Summer's heritage, the mysterious person watching her and whatever the Head Master is hiding. There are some really interesting ideas underneath everything, which is probably why I managed to get as far as I did.

I just think this book needed to be edited so much tighter. Even at 50%, I felt like everything I had read so far could have been told in half the pages. Had this been a 450-500 page book with more focus on the mystery, magic and world building, I think I would have absolutely eaten it up. It actually gave me Zodiac Academy vibes in places, so it should have completely been my thing!

I struggled a lot with Summer as a FMC. We're constantly told about how she doesn't trust anyone, doesn't let people in and absolutely DOES NOT DO relationships. Yet she trusts Alice straightaway and her relationship with Connor develops incredibly quickly (for saying the length of the book). One minute she's adamant she is nobodies girlfriend and the next we're eating roast chicken and mashed potatoes with his family. GIRL, MAKE IT MAKE SENSE.

And to finish, if I have to hear "big guy" one more time, I fear it may finish me off completely. I'm all for a pet name - but this was just too excessive.

There is definitely a story here that I want to hear more about, and I can completely understand why readers who have extremely chunky high-spice magical university books would have a great time with this. For me, I reached 59% and saw I had so much more to read that I was actively avoiding picking it back up.

I googled what happens, I wish I could have persevered to the end because I feel like it would have destroyed me to read it, but this book is just way too long for me.

Narration was brilliant, plot caused a DNF.

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Well, that was an unnecessarily long journey, and the writing style just isn't for me. I found it to be superficial, too juvenile, and tacky. I know it’s meant to be dark academia, but when you have characters who should be in their late twenties acting and talking like cringy, out-of-control teenagers, it’s just painful and hard to get into. The main characters are flat and honestly unlikeable, in my opinion. The plot had potential but got lost in the 1,000 pages. The relationships felt forced, and the use of pet names was excessive. Honestly, the only fun part was the stranger. And don’t get me started on that ending—what? It wasn’t an “oh my god, I can’t believe this, I want more” moment; it felt more like they just introduced a very random killer and forced a cliffhanger. I don’t think I can force myself to care about book two.

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