Author : Olivia Pharos
Book : Celestial Academy: Essence
/YA,Fantasy/
Publication date : December 15th 2022
Blurb:
Orphan. Slave. Drug dealer.
As a Demon-Owned human, in an Afterworld that has Hell and Heaven on Earth, Wen White is the lowest a being can be. Her life is one of drudgery, degradation—and mortal danger. And that's before she started dealing Angelescence. Unlike anything in existence, it's a drug only she can produce, and everyone would kill, or die for.
With decommission and execution closing in, she’s desperate to buy out her and her best friend’s Indentures. But upping her operations only gets her arrested, and her terrifying captor drags her to the Celestial Court to stand trial. Her 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 her unprecedented ability to capture Angel Essence.
Both hate their enforced proximity—and each other. Especially when the other provokes explosive emotions and cravings they never thought they can experience.
But being embroiled in their private war becomes the least of their worries as he unearths even more disturbing mysteries within her. Meanwhile, a devastating internal war as well as another Apocalypse are brewing...
...and Wen seems at the center of it all.
My thoughts:
Gripping, no punches hold and definitely not for the faint-hearted!
Living on earth that is a dangerous hellhole in the aftermath of a celestial war, our Wen is a survivor. And that means there isn't anything she won't do to secure and buy freedom for her and her closest friend Sarah. Demon-Owned and a drug dealer of a dangerous essence only she can acquire, she gets in the radars of the Archangels. Not only that, but they've sent after her the most powerful nephilim ever to be born.
Now that she was brought before the tribunal of the mighty Archangels, she was judged and sentenced to enroll in the Celestial Academy.
At first, it sounds too good to be true….but soon she realizes that there are much more dangerous fates than death sentence and every misstep could lead her and Sarah to their death.
No filter on her mouth and too sassy for her own good, Wen is infuriating and at the same time the most kind and loyal friend you can get.
As for her powerful nephilim captor/tutor Godric….after the bits and pieces that I gathered through the story, he remains a curious enigma that I can't wait to learn more about in book two!
And I can honestly say that I'm with him with his annoyance towards Wen's constant assault with questions and rambling.
Classical for me my favorite character is Jinny and I loved her interaction with Wen and how she's the only one who succeeds to get on her nerves properly.
So many questions and curiosities after THAT end for all the characters, and I'm curious for all the answers to come.