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Midnight Academy: Die Traumjägerin (2014)

by Mindee Arnett(Favorite Author)

3.8 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Heyne

series

The Arkwell Academy

review 1: This is a nice book for teens. It follows the current craze for supernatural teens living among us.Mindee Arnett is a graduate of Wright State, I believe, so that makes it more special. Jenn says the caves are taken from the tunnels under the WSU buildings...hmmm...My objection to the book is that Arnett throws her reality in your face in the first chapters. Instead of gradually discovering who Dusty is and how her world operates, we are given lots and lots of explanations of who characters are and what her world means. After wading through all that, I like Dusty's love interest and co-worker, Eli. It's a little too easy to guess who the real bad guys are in this story, but I guess it wasn't written as a who-done-it. It's a growing teen romance.
review 2: THE N... moreIGHTMARE AFFAIR was a fun story with some interesting characters. Dusty Everhart is a Nightmare. She has just recently come into her power. Because she is Halfkind with a human father and a Nightmare mother odds were good that she would never develop her magic at all. When she did, she found herself at Arkwell Academy which is the boarding school for magickind. She is just learning magic and sometimes her spells don't work quite the way she plans.Because she is a Nightmare she has to feed from ordinaries while they sleep. One night she sneaks into Eli Booker's house and something strange happens. Eli goes to the same school as Dusty did before she knew she was magickind. She has always had sort of crush on him because he's the tall, dark, and handsome sort and also nice. Dusty learns that she is a special sort of Nightmare called a Dreamseer and Eli is her partner. Since the first dream they share shows the death of another student at Arkwell after she was murdered, they quickly get involved in trying to find out who killed her and why.Eli is transferred to Arkwell which he really resents because he doesn't have any magical talent himself. And, as an athlete, transferring to a school with no sports teams just adds to his resentment. He and Dusty spend a lot of time being snitty to each other. But that's okay with Dusty. She has a boyfriend in Paul Kirkwood who is the son of a prominent magical family but doesn't have any magic himself.Dusty also has to deal with cryptic warnings from her mother as she investigates. Dusty's relationship with her mother isn't easy both because she feels her mother abandoned her and her father when she learned that Dusty didn't have magic and because her mother has a bad reputation for the way she uses her magic. The world of magic in this story was well-developed and filled with interesting characters from sirens for roommates to werewolves guarding the campus. I thought the mystery was well developed too with both clues and red herrings scattered throughout the story. This would be fun for students who like paranormals, boarding school stories, and mysteries. less

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