Valkyrie 101: How to become a Valkyrie

Welcome to The Afterlife Academy where young minds are taught everything they need to know about death.

All of her life, Ylva has dreamed of becoming a Valkyrie and attending The Afterlife Academy. Unfortunately she does not come from a wealthy background or a noble lineage and the only other person from her county attending the Academy is her arch-nemesis. She is then further isolated by being roomed with a Dragon, Ryoko, due to a shortage of beds so the mixing of the different breeds is necessary. She is then beset with an overly friendly wood elf, Aellyn, who dreams of becoming the impossible: a Valkyrie. Then there is Ylva herself who seems to find trouble wherever she travels and drags her new acquaintances along for the ride. The Academy is very much like high school where there a cliques, troublemakers, and mean girls. Apparently though in Ylva's desire to become a Valkyrie she forgot to read the fine print: she has to die to become one.

I do not want to give too much away in Arizona Tape's Valkyrie 101: How to become a Valkyrie the first in “The Afterlife Academy” series as it is just under 200 pages. Tape packs a lot of information and a lot of action for a short story. There is more than one mystery and subterfuge involved in Ylva's first year. Tape has written Ylva as a strong character who is also very young in some areas, but that is due to the lack of life experience. Ylva bases all of her knowledge off of her mother's stories and her own isolated existence. The relationship between Ryoko and her is as much a surprise to Ylva as to Ryoko that Ylva does not know that she is one (laugh). The confusion of young adulthood and miscommunication based on preconceived notions and ideas of what someone else knows and has experienced is dominant in this story. Aellyn has no clue that she can never become a Valkyrie or can she become one? Ryoko knows that she is a lesbian who has started a relationship with her roommate because she has been courting her or has she just been a good friend? Ylva's goal is to become a Valkyrie at any cost, even friends, or has she had a change in heart now that she has had her heart stirred for the first time? I cannot wait to have all of these questions answered and Tape has written the beginning of a story that I want to follow, so I enroll me into The Afterlife Academy because Tape is guaranteed to take us on a ride.

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