Seizing Year Four

Grim Reaper Academy, Book 4

By: Cara Wylde

Narrated by: Kelsey Navarro

Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins

Publisher's summary

I'm not who I used to be. Valentine Morningstar, my own father, tried to ruin my life, and instead he made me stronger. But my own power will consume me if I don't learn how to control it, how to channel it to help everyone, not just myself. I have to learn how to be this new person I've become.

GC - my handsome false god, Pazuzu - my dark demon, Sariel - my fallen archangel, and Francis - my...I know what he is now, but it hurts to say it. They keep me grounded. They keep me sane, and they keep me good. Without them, I'm afraid I might just turn into a villain.

Contains mature themes.

©2019 Cara Wylde (P)2020 Tantor

What a Great Series!

Five star all the way until the main character was killed. The storyline went south after that. Definitely was not expected. Did not like the dark side of the main character after she was killed. This brought the story rating down to a 4. Felt author could have went down a much better road. Also there was too much abuse on the main character. And too many hot sex encounters. It was not necessary. Still think main character got a bad rap at the end. So besides all these strong negatives I loved the series and the narrator was superb! Wish the ending was a little different and the the graduating reapers jobs could have been explored a bit more and more about the school and future reapers.

OMYEFFING GOODNESS!!! LOL TOTALLY LOVED IT!!!!!!

I LOVE LOVE LOVED IT!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 With an ending like that there HAS to be another 1 coming!!! I REALLLLLY hope so anyway!!! I loved these books SOOOOOO much instead of going on to my next 1 I am going to start with Book 1 and listen to them all over again atleast 1 more time...then who knows? Maybe Book 5 will be released?!?! O I REALLLLLY hope so!!! Til next time you are both amazing, Cara Wylde and Kelsey Navarro!!! 🤞🤞❤🥰😍🤟✌🙂

Unsure..

I have loved this story so far. Books 1-3 were delightful! This book however was very different. Mila turned into this mopey, whiney, complaining, self centered thing of a main character. I honestly almost didn't finish this one because I could not get over the horrible attitude she had the whole time.

A truly wild ride

Let me start off: the series as a whole is a solid 6.3/10. That may sound low, but statistically means it's above average. I did, after all, complete the entire series. The story itself is very interesting, and I was invested in hearing about this world of supernatural in the shadows of the human world, and how it's essentially a giant mash up of tons of different mythologies, which I love. And the smut, which there is a LOT of, is well written enough and is some pretty good smut. If you don't like some very graphic group sex scenes, you probably didn't make it this far anyways. However, this book specifically, as the last book of the series, I have several pros and cons. The reality is, this final book is what drags down the score.

Pros: The romance ties up nicely. The world building itself is still there (even if not as much...) The story overall is decently wrapped up. After a lot of thought and some time to digest, I am ultimately more satisfied than not with the ending, albeit only by a slim margin.

Cons: Obviously I cannot read the author's mind in how she developed the MC, however, to me it reads as somewhat of a self insert in the sense that for each new event that happens, perhaps the author is thinking "how would I react to this?" and NOT "at this point in the story, after all of the events that have happened so far, how would MILA react to this?" The MC greatly lacks any great character development, and it's severely highlighted in this final installment of the series. A majority of the book is heavily focused on her moral hemming and hawings instead of better looks into the awesome world that's been built and focus on the story. Despite the MC being in her early 20s, she still reads as the 18 year old that started out in the first book. Despite her issues being recognized by others and herself, there is little done to remedy them and instead we get thoughts and actions that continue to hammer in the same issues over and over. The issue with this is 3 hours left in this book, I had no idea how the entire series was going to end. Heck, with ONE hour left in the book, I still wasn't sure what ending we were trying to shoot for. It feels like the author was working up to a certain resolution all the way from the beginning to about halfway through this book then thought "crap, I better start setting up for my spin off series!!" It was a little bewildering trying to figure out how everything was going to pan out, and once I finished it I was initially pretty annoyed. However, like I said, after giving myself time to consider it, it's satisfactory *enough.*

Okay, so obviously it appears my cons list is much longer than the pros... and it is! However, if you are already about to start this 4th book, you're probably already tolerant and patient enough from the previous books to handle this one and make it to the end of the story. And, despite the cons of feeling like the ending was designed for a last minute spin off, I'm still interested in that story too just because I do like how this world is designed and I'm still looking forward to learning more about the author's vision for the lore. However, I'm ultimately unlikely to recommend it to anyone because this last one is a little difficult to get through when it comes down to it.

Sorry line changed to much and no longer worth it

it's not the narrator fault, but I'm returning this one.. Its changed so much and I don't mean its characters and story developed. It honestly seems like the author couldn't decide one two different stores then ran with one till the ended of the last book then decided she like the other idea better and just switch to that story line for now on... honestly its like she threw the development till now out the window...