{"id":4915,"date":"2018-05-24T09:49:41","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T13:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=4915"},"modified":"2021-03-20T11:07:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T15:07:54","slug":"school-for-psychics-by-k-c-archer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=4915","title":{"rendered":"School for Psychics by K.C. Archer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Title: <\/strong>School for Psychics<\/em>
\nAuthor: <\/strong>K.C. Archer
\nPublisher: <\/strong>Simon & Schuster
\nSource: <\/strong>NetGalley in exchange for an honest review<\/p>\n

\"School<\/a><\/p>\n

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An entrancing new series starring a funny, impulsive, and sometimes self-congratulatory young woman who discovers she has psychic abilities\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand then must decide whether she will use her skills for good or\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6not.<\/p>\n

Teddy Cannon isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t your typical twenty-something woman. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s resourceful. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bright. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s scrappy. She can also read people with uncanny precision. What she doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t realize: she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s actually psychic.<\/p>\n

When a series of bad decisions leads Teddy to a run-in with the police, a mysterious stranger intervenes. He invites her to apply to the School for Psychics, a facility hidden off the coast of San Francisco where students are trained like Delta Force operatives: it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s competitive, cutthroat, and highly secretive. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll learn telepathy, telekinesis, investigative skills, and SWAT tactics. And if students survive their training, they go on to serve at the highest levels of government, using their skills to protect America, and the world.<\/p>\n

In class, Teddy befriends Lucas, a rebel without a cause who can start and manipulate fire; Jillian, a hipster who can mediate communication between animals and humans; and Molly, a hacker who can apprehend the emotional state of another individual. But just as Teddy feels like she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s found where she might belong, strange things begin to happen: break-ins, missing students, and more. It leads Teddy to accept a dangerous mission that will ultimately cause her to question everything\u00e2\u20ac\u201dher teachers, her friends, her family, and even herself.<\/p>\n

Set in a world very much like our own, School for Psychics<\/i> is the first book in a stay-up-all night series.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I recently started reading ebooks again so expect my reviews from NetGalley to pick up for 2018. I requested this because I thought it sounded interesting and it coincidentally would count towards my Book Riot 2018 Read Harder Challenge. This counts for Task 20 – Book with a cover you hate.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, the contents are better than the cover. The students at the Whitfield Institute have various reasons for attending the school but they all want to learn some self-control over their powers. Most of the story focuses on Teddy’s first-year experience at the school.<\/p>\n

Teddy’s cut herself off from people due to her human lie detector abilities. At the school she gains friends and learns maintaining friendships is hard. A lot of the book is spent on the first semester of school and there’s some fast forward through to the end of the year so the pacing felt a little off.<\/p>\n

There are clues along the way on who is involved in the strange events but the author added an unexpected player which probably went over my head as I was focused on the characters we’ve been directly introduced to. Hopefully that’s not a spoiler. If you decide to read it, suspect everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Title: School for Psychics Author: K.C. Archer Publisher: Simon & Schuster Source: NetGalley in exchange for an honest review   An entrancing new series starring a funny, impulsive, and sometimes self-congratulatory young woman who discovers she has psychic abilities\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand then must decide whether she will use her skills for good or\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6not. Teddy Cannon isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t your typical twenty-something woman.… Continue reading School for Psychics by K.C. Archer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[842,894],"class_list":["post-4915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","tag-k-c-archer","tag-school-for-psychics","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4915"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4949,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4915\/revisions\/4949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}