The Trials of Blackbriar Academy

Blackbriar Academy, Book 1

By: Olivia Ash

Narrated by: Amanda Dolan

Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins

Publisher's summary

I shouldn’t be here, and everyone knows it.

Blackbriar Academy is an enchanted school on a magical island, and everyone wants in. It’s a home away from home for the most advanced mages in the world - and only the absolute best of the best are given an invitation.

By some freak accident, I managed to get one.

If I pass the trials, I get to stay. With nowhere else to go, Blackbriar is my one shot at having a real life, and I won’t let anyone take this from me.

But there’s a catch.

It turns out the people on this island are being trained to hunt the darkness - basically, they’re being trained to hunt me.

To survive, I have to hide what I am. As a half-mage, I shouldn't have any magic at all. And yet, my natural abilities are almost impossibly powerful - and incredibly illegal. Over history, magic like mine has corrupted the souls of those who were born with it. They’ve all gone dark - razing towns and murdering hundreds of thousands throughout history.

All but me, and I have no idea why.

As the trials get more and more challenging, it’s clear I’m being hunted. If I’m caught - I die.

At Blackbriar Academy, nothing is ever as it seems...but I have nowhere else to go.

Nothing, and no one, will stand in my way.

The Trials of Blackbriar Academy is a full-length novel with a powerfully magical heroine, a riveting story line, and an alternative relationship dynamic that supports our badass heroine's right to choose more than one man. Get ready for a heart-pounding story filled with an academy fantasy romance unlike anything you’ve listened to before.

Buckle in for heart-pounding action, breathtaking magic, deadly assassins, four drop-dead gorgeous leading men, lots of toned muscles, and most importantly - a young woman’s journey of justice, self-discovery, and freedom.

Warning: The Blackbriar Academy saga is a reverse harem series with explicit scenes and is meant for mature listeners who enjoy spellbinding stories with a few very steamy, fan-your-face moments in their fantasy fiction.

Includes a special bonus note from the author.

©2019 Olivia Ash (P)2019 Podium Publishing

Quick overview

If you are looking for a super spicy reverse harem this is not really it. There are precisely three scenes in this book all three less than two minutes, and vague.

Hrmmm

I love reverse harem themes stories; however, this author isn’t the best writer. The story isn’t all that engaging and some of the lines are redundant or do not make much sense at all. This really should have been caught in the editing process.
The characters are pretty flat, I wish they’d been a bit more rounded out because as they stand right now, everyone could be slaughtered out of nowhere and I just wouldn’t care :(
Overall I do like the concept, but it just never grabbed me in the way a good take ought to.

Heroine constantly distracted by guys.

I didn't finish this book. I liked the general story, but the heroine was too preoccupied with the guys around her, which detracted from the storyline.

Riktigt bra bok

En riktigt bra bok välskriven jag gillar den gilar karaktärerna vilse hur dom utvecklas gillar hur hon spöade den andra karaktären

WOW!!

I love the magical questions this book keeps you asking and also the hot steamy parts that keep a person wondering. 👏 Bravo!!!!

I wanted to like this…

I wanted to like this, I really did. But with all of the out of the blue additions to the story thrown in throughout the book, random, juvenile and usually irrelevant remarks by some of the characters, and the nonchalance, and sometimes idiotic responses of the main character to very serious situations, I just couldn’t finish it. I got down to the last two and a half hours, so I did really try to give it the benefit of the doubt, but I just can’t listen to the rest.

love this book

I love this book so much fun I'm diving right into the very next one. I couldn't get enough of wren and her very mysterious and daunting hunks I'm very excited to see what path is ahead for her and what secrets she's trying to uncover. and the narrator is amazing. the author note and the end is an amazing touch.

Abuse and the author

The heroine knows way too much about sex for having lived with trolls. It makes me wonder if the author was sexually abused as a child. It was as if the author didn’t know what a virgin would feel before the first sexual experience. The physical abuse reaction was spot on.

RH - Nice start for the series

I'm not normally interested in RH books but I found this first book of the series pretty good. I have a feeling later on in the series I will loose interest but this book was pretty good the story line kept you interested.
IDK if I will continue with the series or not since I'm sure the RH hormones will kick in and take away from the story line....

LOVED IT!!

Checked all my boxes of badassery!! Cant wait to listen to book 3!good story line. engaging