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What do you learn here...at the Academy? Wirt asks. Magic? The responsibility to use your powers responsibly? Uh...something like that, his roommate Spencer said. More like how to rule worlds. Wirt, is used to being shuffled from foster home to foster home, adopting a devil-may-care attitude toward the world along the way. Now he s in a school he can t escape, learning to develop his latent magical abilities, for what use, he doesn't know...to save his world or to destroy it...
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~My Review~
This is such a fun adventurous read and highly addictive.
The author has created a fantastic series from a male’s perspective, which is
quite different for me. The easy flow of the story and the highly enjoyable
adventure’s that Wirt takes makes for one great read.
Wirt is a typical teenager generally speaking, orphaned and pushed
from one foster house to another and from one school to another. Forever
finding trouble and on afternoon while walking around his new town, Wirt finds
some thugs, after a verbal exchange, Wirt is chased down the streets. Cornered
against a fence, Wirt suddenly starts feeling like his body is going to be torn
apart. Having no clue what is happening, he can only stand and wait for the pummelling
from the thugs without fighting back. The next minute he is taken someplace
else, standing in a field looking up into the most ginormous tree he could ever
imagine.
Welcome to the Alchemists Academy! Wirt is taken by surprise
of course; he had no idea that he even had the potential to do magic. Once
meeting with the Headmaster and being accepted to attend, Wirt was taken to
meet his new roommate. Spencer has taken Wirt under his wing and introduced him
to his other friends. Wirt quickly becomes friends with the group and starts to
learn about magic.
A magical and very important artefact is stolen and a quest
has been called in order to find the artefact and the thief. This is the
beginning of Wirt’s adventure in the magical tree.
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A new student has entered The Alchemists Academy, and he brings with him an explosive power that threatens the Academy and the legend of Merlin. Wirt thought he was the only bad boy at the Academy, but he was wrong. Not only is Roland Black worse than Wirt, but a new teacher had replaced one of their beloved teachers, and she has more planned for Wirt and his friends than just lesson plans. Alana, his crush has grown prettier, and now he is rivals for her attention with not only his best friend Spencer, but newcomer Roland, as well. On top of that, it is their second year, and the year where all the students must pass a test to move on to the Elite Class at the Academy. The Elite Class is the only class in the third year at the Academy, and the students who fail will be sent home, others will face something even deadlier.
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~My Review~
Starting off where Stones to Ashes finishes, Elemental Explosions
is exactly as the title states. Wirt is learning more about his abilities;
learning how to harness his elemental powers. His teachers have unorthodox
methods of teaching Wirt how to use his abilities, but they are effective.
There is a new student, Roland Black and there seems to be a
history with Spencer’s Father and Roland’s Father. The tension in the air
surrounding these two is not just over their Father’s history but also over
Alana. Wirt arrives back at his room one day to find Spencer moved out and
Roland moved in. He is confused and frustrated over Spencer and their
friendship is questioned.
Wirt finds out that Year 2 is a year of tests, tests and
more testing in order to gain one of the precious 14 places in the Elite
program. The students are all highly strung and trying their hardest to pass
all of their classes in order to be offered one of the spot for Year 3. If
there is a tie, this year there will be a tournament called The Quantum Games
where the participants will have to fight to the possible death in order to
obtain that final spot.
Magical ropes go missing and again part of a test, teams are
made and Wirt and his friends go in search. Wirt has a feeling that Roland is
involved in the missing ropes somehow.
This is another page turner and I enjoyed this one more than
the first. With the end leaving me hanging, I am anxious for book 3, The
Quantum Games. I highly recommend this series to all young adult fantasy
readers.
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Kailin Gow is the award-winning, international bestselling author of over 80 distinct books.
Kailin Gow is also the President of a media company, a media personality, and has been writing full-time since she was first published. Holding a Masters in communications management and leadership positions in Fortune 500 corporations, she puts her leadership abilities, her experience, and desire to help others into her fiction books. As a result, she has written the forthcoming, Finding the Heroine in You book which is also a national tour. She is a mother and spends whatever spare time she has volunteering at the Red Cross, Battered Women's Shelters, and other organizations.
Currently her Frost Series is in development for a major international MMO Game, and she has over 14,000 and growing Frosters on her facebook fan page.
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