Akarnae (The Medoran Chronicles, #1)

Simply AMAZING.
It brought me on one fantastic journey, and I loved it to bits.
Absolutely brilliant, and I highly recommend it.

[SMALL SPOILER]

There is no romance in this story (unfortunately, as I felt that Alex could have gotten together with Jordan) and I am hoping for some in the next book in the series.

Once again, I highly recommend this book- It brings you to places, and its description makes you read in awe.

This book was not an easy one form me. I even wanted to give up on the series all together after a couple of first chapters of Akarnae. The reason for that was pretty simple - gigantic info-dump in the first hundred and fifty pages or so. And all that felt like some big fanfic at the start. But after 35% of the book I didn't care about all of the above at all.

If you need to know one thing about why I liked the novel, it's because of the atmosphere. I was feeling so nostalgic of the times when I read Harry Potter for the first time. And it was the one of the very few times, when such comparison didn't make me feel annoyed. I was all warm and fuzzy reading it, and just for that I'm ready to give 4 stars to the novel.

Don't get me wrong, there is a lot of space for author's improvement. But even the progress in the first novel with that clumsy start to more or less decent ending is enough for me to start Raelia.

But you know, I'm totally sure, that if I read this book in my 8th grade, I would've instantly fallen in love with it.