The Alchemists Academy Book 1: Stones to Ashes by Kailin Gow

What do you learn here…at the Academy? Wirt asks. Magic? The responsibility to use your powers responsibly? Uh…something like that, his roommate Spencer said. More like how to rule worlds. Wirt, is used to being shuffled from foster home to foster home, adopting a devil-may-care attitude toward the world along the way. Now he s in a school he can t escape, learning to develop his latent magical abilities, for what use, he doesn’t know…to save his world or to destroy it…

Review:

This reminded me a little bit of the Harry Potter books….a kid that doesn’t fit in to the “real” world becomes part of a magical world and there is more at stake for him than he realizes.  I was surprised at how quickly Wirt made friends at this new school…but perhaps these friends are a bit odd themselves and he just fits right in.  The story was very good and kept my attention wondering who was a “good guy” and who wasn’t.  I definitely didn’t see some of the twists in the story!  All in all I enjoyed it and give it 4 paws and can’t wait to start the second book (which will be featured in just a few days!)

Author Kailin Gow

Kailin Gow is the award-winning, international bestselling author of over 80 distinct books.

Kailin Gow is also the President of a media company, a media personality, and has been writing full-time since she was first published. Holding a Masters in communications management and leadership positions in Fortune 500 corporations, she puts her leadership abilities, her experience, and desire to help others into her fiction books. As a result, she has written the forthcoming, Finding the Heroine in You book which is also a national tour. She is a mother and spends whatever spare time she has volunteering at the Red Cross, Battered Women’s Shelters, and other organizations.

Currently her Frost Series is in development for a major international MMO Game, and she has over 14,000 and growing Frosters on her facebook fan page.