Shadowspell Academy: The Culling Trials: Book 1

By: K.F. Breene, Shannon Mayer

Narrated by: Khristine Hvam

You don’t choose the academy. The academy chooses you.

I had no idea how those words would change my life. Or how they’d changed my life already...until the day the most dangerous man I’ve ever met waltzed onto my farm and left us a death sentence. In an invitation.

My younger brother has been chosen for the prestigious, secret magical school hidden within the folds of our mundane world. A place so dangerous, they don’t guarantee you’ll make it out alive.

If he doesn't go, our entire family will be killed. It’s the same invitation my older brother received three years ago - the same place where he mysteriously died.

The academy has already killed one sibling. I’ll be damned if they take another. I do the only thing an older sister can: chop off my hair, strap on two bras to flatten the girls, and take my brother’s place.

Magic and monsters are real. Assassins are coming for me, and the dead are prone to rise. What’s a girl faking it as a boy supposed to do? That’s right - beat the academy at its own game. Or die trying.

Praise for the book:

"This book is Harry Potter meets the Hunger Games in a bold twist on a classic magical young adult adventure." (Jaymin Eve, best-selling author of Supernatural Academy series)

©2019 K.F. Breene and Shannon Mayer (P)2019 K.F. Breene and Shannon Mayer

Great beginning

Loving the characters already. Hopefully it won't be too "high-school like" with enemies and bickering

Loved the book and narrator!

The story was interesting and the narrator did an amazing job. I don't know what was wrong with the sound/recording because each chapter had an issue.

super action pack and fun to listen or read!!

First, I love the authors and there previous books, I expected greatness and I received it! The dynamic characters getting added dimensions as you get to know them and there worth, Wilde is a phenomenally strong character with amazing skills. I am going for book 2 with hopes raised and fingers crossed!!

Enjoyable!

A secret school where students can die. But before they can be admitted, they have to face the Culling Trials. Her brother died in his second year at the Academy. Another mandatory invitation has been delivered to her younger brother, who is still in high school. If he doesn't go, his family is threatened. Wild decides the family cannot lose another son. She is slender, with almost no curves and a small chest. She takes his place, pretending to be a boy. The trials start the first day and although her team does well, other applicants died or were maimed by the traps. There are four more trials. Can she get through them and maintain her scheme? A good story performed by a great narrator!

Great start to what sounds like a great series!

So far this promises to be an outstanding start to the series! Can't wait to listen to book 2.