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Akarnae

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The first of the five-part MEDORAN CHRONICLES offers a new slant on magical parallel worlds – it's Harry Potter meets X-Men, with a twist of Narnia. With just one step, 16-year-old Alex Jennings's world changes - literally. 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 Professor Marselle can help her... but he's missing. 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 there 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? Will Alex risk her entire world... and maybe even her life - to save Medora?
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      October 2, 2014
      This is another book about ‘young people at magic school’, which we’ve seen a lot of in the post-Harry Potter market. To be fair, the magic school plot device was established long before J K Rowling, and it’s the tweaks and quirks that a writer puts into their version that set a book apart. With Akarnae, debut author Lynette Noni manages to put enough of her own spin on things to keep even a jaded YA reader entertained. Alex, the protagonist, is a pleasing mix of naïve and savvy, and there are plenty of rough-and-tumble action scenes for those who like their heroines in the thick of it. Her school friends, Jordan and Bear, are fun foils, and the dialogue between the three characters is natural and humorous. Alex’s roommate Delucia is mean without being over the top; the teachers are appropriately odd; and the villain, the banished Elven Prince Aven, is cool and scary. Medora, the world Alex is pulled into from ours, and Akarnae, the school that she finds herself mysteriously enrolled in, are interesting, but have some issues. Magic and high tech that looks like magic coexist, and I was occasionally confused as to which was which. Nevertheless, this book is good fun and a solid recommendation for YA readers.

      Stefen Brazulaitis is the owner of Stefen’s Books in Perth

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