Review: The Sword of Avalon: Year One Recruit (The Sword of Avalon Series Book 1) by L Cross

The Sword of Avalon: Year One Recruit by L. Cross
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I would probably give this 3.5 stars if I could.

I received an Advanced Reader Copy of this book from the author for review purposes. My opinions are given below and are my own.

To start off I would like to say that the blurb for this book gives quite a lot of information that isn’t contained in the actual book. This seems odd to me. You shouldn’t get more information from the blurb, it’s meant to be a hint, not a missing chapter.

This is a short book and it’s quite interesting. The MFC is Artura Drake and her whole life she thought she was normal. However, one day she sees something that mortals don’t normally see, she saw Minotaurs and then resisted a memory wipe from The Sword of Avalon Academy. This unusual ability lead her to be invited to attend a college for magic users. During her trials she extracted a sword from a stone, something no one had done in over a 1000 years. It seemed the Lady of The Lake had seen something special in her.

Her special case leads her to being placed in a dorm with three other talented magic users, with whom she quickly makes friends. She also becomes friends with two of the magic users who saved her from the Minotaurs, Lance and Wyn. The third member of that group, Morgan, appears to hate her for some reason.

When one of her new friends is accused of performing black magic, Artura asks to be part of the investigation. Sadly, she is paired up with Morgan.

The mystery does not get solved in this book and it feels chopped off. This doesn’t feel like a complete book, just part of one and that kind of thing frustrates me if I don’t know it's going to happen when I start reading. Aside from that, it was an entertaining read and the characters have potential, even if they have not yet reached it in this first book of the series. I think that the series, as a whole, might be more enjoyable than the individual parts, but we’ll have to wait and see until the next book comes out in early 2020.

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