Rebels and Runaways by Grace McGintyMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Joining Together All The Strands
If you’ve read all of Grace McGinty’s books, you’ll absolutely LOVE this book. If you haven’t read them, go and do it now, you won’t regret it. However, you can probably get away with not reading the previous books because this book is about the next generation of supernaturals.
Set at Eden Academy, which was established to protect and nurture supernaturals and provide a refuge for those that needed it, the new academic year is starting for those that have graduated the high school portion of their education and who are in need of a further four years of supernatural specific education.
Starting the new term are the three adopted children of Raine, from Pleasantly Undead in Dark River, and her mates. The three wolf shifters were brought to Raine when they were five years old, when Lucius took them from a slave auction. The darkness that lives inside of Carmen was bred during that time at the auction house. She is in a constant battle to fight and to let blood because of her anger. She is a beta wolf who’s siblings are an alpha and an omega, which she sometimes resents but she still loves them completely.
This story is principally about Carmen and the men she falls for. Like her adoptive mother, Carmen seems to need multiple mates to keep up with her. Though the story is about Carmen and her mates we are also introduced to lots of other young shifters at the academy, which I’m sure will be covered in future books.
One of the things I really enjoyed about this book is that it isn’t really an academy book. There is very little about lessons or students interacting (though there is some with some of the usual jealousy etc, but there isn’t much of it). This is just a setting for the story, Carmen and her siblings are actually just day students because they live so close by.
As usual, this author manages to blend the good and evil beings together to show that even if you are labelled ‘evil’ it doesn’t mean you aren’t capable of great acts of love and friendship. There is violence and death in this book but it pales in comparison with the love of mates, family and friends that binds all the characters together.
There is some really creative plot construction in this story and I love all the characters so much, especially the weird ones such as Flint the half ifrit and Monster the wendigo. There is humour, sadness, pain, violence and sex scenes in this book, sometimes two or more at once!
I know I’ll read this book again because there is so much in it to enjoy that I’ll get more from it the second time around. I’m also really looking forward to the next book in the series as there is a cliffhanger to lure us on into reading about the next group of young people at the academy.
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