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Review: Celestial Academy: Essence

Title: Celestial Academy: Essence Author: Olivia Pharos Series: Book 1 Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ *Note:I received a copy of this ARC in exchange for an honest review. Or…
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Review: Celestial Academy: Essence

By Celestial Blackrose on July 31, 2024

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Title: Celestial Academy: Essence

Author: Olivia Pharos

Series: Book 1

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

*Note:I received a copy of this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Orphan. Slave. Drug dealer.

As a Demon-Owned human, in an Afterworld that literally has Hell and Heaven on Earth, I'm the lowest a being can be. My life is one of drudgery, degradation—and mortal danger. And that's before I started dealing Angelescence. Unlike anything in existence, it's a drug only I can produce, and everyone would kill for.

With decommission and execution closing in, I'm desperate to buy out my and my best friend's Indentures. But upping my operations only gets me arrested, and my terrifying captor drags me to the Celestial Court—on a leash—to stand trial. My sentence?

Conscription to Celestial Academy.

As the most powerful nephilim in history, Godric is Heaven's most ruthless soldier and assassin. And he's been assigned with discovering the root of my unprecedented ability to capture Angel Essence.

We both hate our forced proximity—and each other. Especially since we're seething with explosive emotions and cravings that neither of us ever thought to experience, and can't possibly afford. Anything between us isn't only forbidden, it's disastrous. Potentially for all of existence.

But being embroiled in our passionate war becomes the least of our worries as he unearths even more terrible mysteries within me. Meanwhile, lethal trials loom at mid-term, and a devastating internal war as well as another Apocalypse are brewing...

...and I'm at the center of it all.

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This book was very painful to get through. I didn't finish it, actually, I had to stop around 25% through and DNF. In all that time I felt like nothing was happening. The pace was agonizingly slow. The writing style was unnecessarily wordy and long, which only made it worse. On top of that, I couldn't connect to the main character at all. Wren came off as very annoying and irritating to me. She was constantly going off on tangents in her inner dialogue, which was also distracting. I think she was the main reason I couldn't get through the book. She just came off as so immature. It was no wonder I couldn't enjoy the romance either. It seemed too forced because from the moment she laid eyes on the male love interest she kept commenting on his body in her head and immediately attracted to him. I just didn't care for any of it. Overall, definitely not for me, unfortunately. 

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