Caroline Peckham & Susanne Valenti: Zodiac Academy - Ruthless Fae

This is the second book in the series and you need to read the first book in this series, Zodiac Academy: Awakening, before you read this book or even continue down to the review below.

Caroline Packham and Susanne Valenti, have the second instalment of the Zodiac Academy series, and the twins are going on the offensive:

Darcy and Tory have barely survived their time at Zodiac Academy and the celestial heirs think that they have the upper hand and that they have done enough to scare Darcy and Tory off. When the twins decide to stay, they decide to get revenge on the heirs, make their lives just a bit of living hell that they have made theirs.

The first book in this series had me hooked from the very beginning and I really wanted to like this one as much as the first, especially how the first book ended. However, for the most part the book felt like a filler book where not much of substance or really plot till towards the end. The ending is pretty compelling and there is some character development in the book and a few interesting developments but for the most part, nothing really happens in this book.

I don't think that the main guys are so stupid as to not think of Tory and Darcy messing with them. I mean i think that should be the first place where their minds go. It was silly prank after silly prank and other than maybe get some of their frustrations out on the guys, did this book really need to be written this way.

I did enjoy that there was a bit of character development for each of heirs and Orion, and you see the pressure that each of them are under and maybe what they show to the twins is not really who they are. I enjoyed getting to know them a bit more.

I love multiple POVs but like the first book there felt like there was a few too many in this book and not all of them are needed. This was my main complaint of the first book as well and I do not think that this is going to change in the future books.

Although this book did not live up to the first, I still feel invested in the characters and want to see what Packham and Valenti take this series, especially with the ending of this book. I just hope that in next book it does not just rely on the ending to keep the reader going.

Cheers!!!

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