Check out the Weekly Recommendation Thread.New Release: Emma of 83rd Street by Audrey Bellezza.The writing is fine and the characters are fine. Long story short, this book is long, dark, and weird. The world building is okay, but a lot of the supernatural aspects of this world are…absurd. I don’t want to spoil the ending for anyone, but I also can say that I didn’t really understand the science-fiction/fantasy aspect of it. I really didn’t enjoy her progression into becoming…whatever she becomes at the end. Sasha is likable and she seems like a normal person at first, but because of her training at the Institute, she becomes weird like everyone else. I didn’t really enjoy any particular aspect of it. And man, this book really drags! The story is intriguing at first, but then it slowly becomes very strange. Now, I decided to listen to the audiobook for this one because it’s a long book and I was worried I might not be able to finish it in a reasonable amount of time if I read it.
Yet despite her fear, Sasha undergoes changes that defy the dictates of matter and time experiences which are nothing she has ever dreamed of. Using terror and coercion to keep the students in line, the school does not punish them for their transgressions and failures instead, their families pay a terrible price. The books are impossible to read, the lessons obscure to the point of maddening, and the work refuses memorization. Against her mother’s wishes, Sasha leaves behind all that is familiar and begins her education.Īs she quickly discovers, the institute’s “special technologies” are unlike anything she has ever encountered. Though she does not want to go to this unknown town or school, she also feels it’s the only place she should be. As summer ends, her domineering mentor directs her to move to a remote village and use her gold to enter the Institute of Special Technologies. He rewards her effort with a strange golden coin.Īs the days progress, Sasha carries out other acts for which she receives more coins from Kozhennikov. The teenage girl is powerless to refuse when this strange and unusual man with an air of the sinister directs her to perform a task with potentially scandalous consequences. While vacationing at the beach with her mother, Sasha Samokhina meets the mysterious Farit Kozhennikov under the most peculiar circumstances. Tags: Science Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Supernatural, New Adult, Translated, Dark Academia
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