Though he is as far from a rich spoilt brat as can be. Jordan came from a rich family, with parents who well think of him as a acessories. I loved their easy going friendship and how laid-back yet naturally protective they were of each other. Their immediate bond with each other makes it feel as though they’ve been the best of friends for ages. The easy-going, comedic pair were quick to befriend Alex at her most vulnerable moment. Keeping her otherworldly origins a secret, Alex soon finds herself pretending to be Akarnae Academy’s latest transfer student, a transition pulled off with the help of her two new friends Bear and Jordan. With no hope of returning to Earth, or Freya as the Medorans call it, until the mysterious headmaster returns to the Academy, Alex has to make the most of her new life. When her parents’s latest archaelogical project sends them off to the Siberian wilderness, Alexandra Jennings is given no choixe and is sent off to boarding school in Oregon.ĭreading the upcoming months without her parents, Alex is shocked when she walks through the doorway of her new headmaster’s office and literally falls into another world. Will Alex risk her entire world – and maybe even her life – to save Medora?Īkarnae by Lynette Noni is truly a wonderful YA novel. Only she can save the Medorans, but what if doing so prevents her from ever returning home? She soon starts to enjoy her bizarre new world and the friends who embrace her as one of their own, but strange things are happening at Akarnae, and Alex can’t ignore her fear that something unexpected… something sinister… is looming.Īn unwilling pawn in a deadly game, Alex’s shoulders bear the crushing weight of an entire race’s survival. While waiting for him to reappear, Alex attends Akarnae Academy, Medora’s boarding school for teenagers with extraordinary gifts. With just one step, sixteen-year-old Alexandra Jennings’s world changes – literally.ĭreading her first day at a new school, Alex is stunned when she walks through a doorway and finds herself stranded in Medora, a fantasy world full of impossibilities.ĭesperate to return home, she learns that only a man named Professor Marselle can help her… but he’s missing.

Akarnae by Lynette Noni