The forbidden romance between Alex and Aiden is fun to read but it did feel a touch like déjà vu. Her loyalty to her mother and her friends is fierce and there is logic behind her decisions. She knows when to pull her head in and when to break the rules. However there is enough different about these stories that I wasn’t constantly comparing the two.Īlex is the kind of girl who acts first and deals with the repercussions later. I’d heard that this series has a lot in common with Richelle Mead’s Vampire Academy books and there is a lot that feels familiar (the forbidden romance, the class system, even the boarding school itself). I have a weakness for books with strong heroines and magical boarding schools. I’ve wanted to read this series for a while. She has a choice – to train with the gorgeous pureblood, Aiden St Delphi, or become a servant in her stepfather’s mansion. Alex was not the best student and her past behaviour record threatens to have her expelled before she is even a student again. After another attack, and nowhere to go, Alex is taken to the Covenant – a boarding school for Hermatoi, offspring of the gods – and the very place where she and her mother fled from three years earlier. And that would kind of suck.Īlex has been on the run from daimons since she saw them murder her mother.
If she fails in her duty, she faces a future worse than death or slavery: being turned into a daimon, and being hunted by Aiden. But falling for Aiden isn’t her biggest problem–staying alive long enough to graduate the Covenant and become a Sentinel is. Unfortunately, she’s crushing hard on the totally hot pure-blood Aiden. Alex has problems with them all, but especially rule #1:Relationships between pures and halfs are forbidden. There are several rules that students at the Covenant must follow. Seventeen-year-old Alexandria would rather risk her life fighting than waste it scrubbing toilets, but she may end up slumming it anyway. Half-bloods only have two options: become trained Sentinels who hunt and kill daimons or become servants in the homes of the pures. Children of Hematoi and mortals–well, not so much.
The Hematoi descend from the unions of gods and mortals, and the children of two Hematoi pure bloods have godlike powers. Genre: Urban Fantasy, Mythology, Young Adult, First in a Series
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