Book: An Academy for Liars
Author: Alexis
Henderson
Pages: 450
Date(s)
Read: January 3rd, 2025 to February 3rd, 2025
Date
Published: September 17th, 2024
Rating: 3/5
Genre: Dark
Academia
Characters: 4/5
Writing style: 5/5
Story: 3/5
Ending: 4/5
Cover: 3/5
Format: Soft Cover
Date Bought: N/A
Book Cost: 0.00
Favorite
Quotes:
“He will never
love you the way you want to be loved. And if you stay, he will love you even
less, until one day you mean nothing to him.”
Review:
I was
excited when I discovered that I had won a goodreads contest for a book I
planned on buying. I'll be honest, after finishing this tome of a novel I'm
glad I didn't have to pay for it. An Academy of Liars is a well-written mess of
a book. This was a very peculiar and at times vexing book. Sometimes this book
was riveting and engaging but more often than not the book was disconcerting
and obtuse. Really the ending and the writing style are the saving grace. If
this book was written by any other author this would have likely been a DNF.
Lennon
Carter is a down-on-her-luck young twenty-something. Her fiancée is cheating on
her, she has a lot of mental health problems and absolutely no direction. One
night she gets a mysterious call, from a phone booth, telling her she's been
accepted to the mysterious Drayton Academy. When she gets there for the
entrance exam she's quickly whisked away into what seems like a whole other
world. At Drayton Lennon learns how to do almost anything with the power of
persuasion. It's an interesting and unique premise.
The
magic/power system and world don't seem to ever quite have concrete grounding
and you never feel sure you really have a grasp on the story, system, and
world. I would have liked the fundamentals laid out more clearly, and a solid
stable foundation for how exactly the power and world works. The characters,
especially Lennon feel like they fall short too. Lennon never seems to take
charge of her own life or have much direction on her own. She has always
depended on the other men in her life for that and that never really changes
though it's brought up. Other characters are a little more interesting but you
don't get much insight into how they think or feel.
All in all,
An Academy for Liars is not a bad book but it has major problems that really
hold it back from being a great work of fiction. I think the writer should have
spent a bit more time on this one. If you're looking for something odd and
unique, it will definitely scratch that itch but at 450 pages it's quite the
commitment.
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