Review: Six Branches (The Agora Series Book 1) by Jeanne Allen

Six Branches by Jeanne Allen
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Fascinating World Building

This is an interesting new paranormal reverse harem series. I’ve not read anything by the author before and overall the book was enjoyable.

Rose is an orphan. She’s been raised in some very bad foster homes until she found one that lasted four years, but sadly her foster mother died. At 20 years old and out of the system for 2 years, Rose has only one true friend. She has transferred to a new university as a Junior and is hoping to become an anthropologist. She transferred because of the scholarship available and the course reputation.

On her first day Rose meets a very young professor and when he shakes her hand her body lights on fire. When she meets a student and his twin brother she has the same experience. They tell her that she’s not human and they are now pre-bonded with her. This starts a journey into another world of ‘mutants’ who live for hundreds if not thousands of years, who live amongst humans in a parallel society rules by kings and queens.

I really enjoyed the world building in this book and the back stories of the characters seem really interesting as they are revealed to us. It felt like the majority of the book was all about establishing the characters and building the world for the reader and things only really started to take off plot-wise in the latter stages of the book. This pacing doesn’t surprise me as this is the first book in a series and there is obviously a longer story arc involved.

I like Rose’s character a lot. She’s independent, intelligent and determined. She faces the new changes to her life with courage and doesn’t quibble too hard with the evidence of her own experience and what she is being told by the new men in her life. The men are also a varied bunch of characters, which I really liked.

There is obviously a lot more to come and I look forward to reading the next book in the series.

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