Bloodwood Academy: Semester One

Exiled World: Bloodwood Shifter, Book 1

De: Rae Foxx, Rebecca Ethington

Narrado por: Isla Blackthorne

It all started when I was doing some bare-back riding with my boyfriend, Tommy, atop a rock in Middle-of-Nowhere, Nevada.

In walked this wolf like he’s my mom on a meth trip, staring at us and growling like he’s an over-protective husband. Worse, according to Tommy, I’m growling back. Next thing I know, Tommy is halfway across the desert and I’m at an elite academy for Witches, Shifters, Vampires, and Fae looking like I was plucked out of the local trailer park. Oh wait, I was.

Bloodwood Academy for the Supernatural has only one rule: Don’t mingle with students outside your race.

So, of course, that just so happens to be the first thing I do. How can you say no to a Fae God with golden eyes, a moody Werewolf with pack issues, and a Vampire with magic fingers.

My men are not only sending everything into a whirlwind, but now my life is in danger. It turns out that if I don’t go back to my single wide, some jealous females are going to rip my throat out. I need to figure out why I’m connected to all of my mates, and why the headmaster has it out for me, before I find myself 10 feet under.

Bloodwood Academy is a full-length why choose romance with a snarky heroine, shirtless men, love scenes that will send you swooning, and no end to pulsing…muscles.

It's not just Rae Fox, it's Rae Foxx. There's too much steam here for just one x.

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Ehh

Not bad the narrator is kind of automatic story not to bad if want to hear instead of read not bad but how it’s read might be better than listening to it

3 1/2 Stars

I Love the premise of this book. I also love the characters and like previous work by both Rae and Blackthorne. This is a first Ethington to me.

I’m not sure if the conversations of the characters are immature or if it is the childlike sound of the voice used for the characters. That’s truly the part that brings it a little bit away for me.

Overall, I like the book and am going off to listen to book 2.

funny but still lacking

First things first: the narrator sucks balls, She’s extremely robotic but you do get used to it. She’s not the worst Siri impersonator I’ve ever heard.

Otherwise the book itself is extremely funny. I was pissing myself the whole way through, because the heroine (Ivy) is truly a dirty, single-wide dweller, with a garbage bf, and an addict mother. Trailer trash born and bred. She gets selected to go to an elite Supernatural academy. As you can imagine she doesn't fit. Her filter and sense of propriety are very, very, VERY low. When she arrives she's stank (her trailer had no water to bathe), she's dressed poorly, and is a real loudmouth to authority.

This line in the beginning about her mother nearly took me out: 

“Every time I saw her like that, I pictured myself checking her neck for a pulse. I supposed that one day I wouldn’t find one when I pressed my fingers below her chins.”

Chins. Plural. Nuff said. 😭

My only issue was the fairly quick (though not easy) collection of her elite mates (she hadn’t even known she was a shifter the week before). And that the author seemed to be struggling to bring Ivy into her power. It is a difficult proposition, having this girl with nothing (including class) suddenly be an important figure who is looked to for guidance. The author tried to keep Ivy trailer trash by making her run from battles, doubt herself, and accept the nasty names people called her. But IMO it felt like the disrespect (internally and externally) was getting old, and this is only book 1. I'm not sure I'll read the rest of the series.