Ri ♡ 's Reviews > The Awakening

"The most important thing I’d learned in life? You can’t trust people. And you especially can’t trust boys with wicked smiles and equally wicked intentions."

There is definitely a crack in this book because THIS. IS. FREAKING. ADDICTING. Like I hated so much in this all the bullying and the celestial heirs but still couldn't stop reading it. I already knew that I'm going to be very addicted to this series but this is something else. I loved the world building. It was perfect and one of the main reasons I got so invested in this and yess I AM FINALLY A ZODIAC ACADEMY ADDICT.

The plot is full of drama and there is always something happening mostly bad things. Bad things to Vega twins. It still has the one of the most used plotline where the girl is of a coming age and suddenly she realised she has power and now she has to fight for the world. Typical? I know I know. But when I say this one is different even though the ZA world still involved Magic and Faes. It is different. Because this whole story is more like character driven and the also the mystery in this is very very intriguing.

Some of the characters are horrible and fucked up and some are just amazing that I want to protect them so badly and the whole mystery about what exactly happened to Vega twins and their parents and the whole dark magic thing in is perfect and will keep you wanting more and more. I can't say much about writing except it was simple which made me read it very fast.


╰┈➤ Things I love the most
➛ The magical world (Solaria)
➛ Faes and their powers
➛ The shape shifting powers
➛ The Orders mostly Vampires and Dragons and the Zodiacs
➛ The powers of elements 💨🔥🍃🌊 and stars 💫
➛ The humour and the witty banter
➛ THE WHOLESOME SIBLING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TORY AND DARCY 💘 (both twins are my favourite and I'm not choosing any single one)
➛ Tory and the badass things she did and her sassy mouth
➛ The palpable tension between Orion and Darcy
➛ The angst and hatred between Darius and Tory (I want him to grovel and beg her in the next book or I'm done shipping them)


It was a rollercoaster of emotions because how many times did I wanted to punch them in the face or throw my kindle away because they frustrated me so much. How many times I was furious when they tried to bully Vega twins and how many times I laughed reading the funny puns. I have lost count at this point.


✦ Darcy Vega
She is the most relatable and the practical twin and I love how clumsy she can be sometimes but also stands up for herself and her sister when needed. She always tries to do her best. She may not be the fierce twin sister but she is a badass in her own way, who is attracted to hot jerks or shall I say hot-as-fucking-hell professor 👀 Darcy is me. I am Darcy🫂

✦ Tory Vega
The badass, bold and fearless twin. I love her and I really hope she kicks some more asses in book 2 mostly of The Heirs because the way they tried to almost kill her is fucked up. Tory is the one with spontaneous decisions but I love her for how she never let anyone walk over her. Plus I love her humor 🔥


➙ The sisterhood bond between Vega twins
I love both the sisters and their wholesome relationship so much. They both cared for each other so deeply and support each other no matter what. Yes they are opposite of each other but they never tried to use that against each other. Do they hide secrets from each other? I think yes they do. But they are not here in ZA as rivals. They are here as the Vega twins. The sisters who will do anything to protect each other.

“Don’t underestimate the depths of vengeance. My sister and I have more power than the lot of you, and you’d be fools to think we won’t remember what we went through while we were getting to grips with handling it.”

✦ Lance Orion
A Handsome professor with Chef's kiss sarcasm and who smells like cinnamon and bourbon. First of all he is Lance and HAS DIMPLES and HUMOR (which had me dying) and second of all he is a Libra and third he doesn't give a shit to anyone so I am already love him so much 💘 He is the only male character who didn't frustrated me in this book so I really hope the authors won't do anything to my hot mysterious professor or I'll bring chaos 🥰 his obsession with Darcy had no limits lmao! Like how he tried to possess her before Caleb could make her his "Vamp blood source". Can't I have hot professor who would do things like this for me???




"Careful Miss Vega expressions like that are punishable in my classroom."


YES SIR 🧎🏽‍♀️


"Orion's brows had raised during my list and now he was grinning, his dimple out in full force."

𝘏𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴 𝘶𝘱 𝘨𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘭 💘


✦ The Celestial Heirs
I. Hate. All. Of. Them. And. They. Deserve. To. Be. In. Prison. For. Their. Crimes.
I didn't think that they would take all this bullying to this level. It was horrible. Their whole personality is nothing just cocky fucked up assholes who can't control their testesrones.

I get it they felt threatened by Vega twins because of all this throne and power but they didn't have to go this far. At first it was small pranks and bullying but that drowning thing they did to Tory was pure attempted murder and nothing less. And I know Tory and she's gonna make them regret every single thing they did to the them.

➸ Darius Acrux: Remember how I said I love him when I read the prequel novella. Yeah I might change my statement now if he doesn't start grovelling or begging to Tory. I get it he had his reasons but he didn't need to take it all out on Tory. Yes I was attracted towards him because who wouldn't? He has dark vibes and had black hair and black eyes and has muscular body and he is freaking GOLDEN DRAGON??! I was sold like Tory but nah he needs to redeem himself in the next books.

➸ Caleb Altair: oh boy I really thought he would change or maybe will try to change but guess what he is too fucked up to even stop his friends but then he starts acting all this possessive over Tory because for what? She is his walking talking blood source!?!? But its still true that Caleb is the only heir I would believe. He is bad and possessive but also had this "I'm bad but I won't harm you." kind of vibe?

➸ Seth Capella: Boy you are much better and pretty when you are just howling and running in the woods. And please for the love of god there is no such thing as Mouth Thumping 😭 FUCK. OF. SETH.

➸ Max Rigel: The emotions sucker siren. I really hate sirens now and I hate him so much for how he tried his fucked up power on twins to tell their fears to him so he and his buddies can mess with them. So no I don't like him.


➙ Lance and Darcy #BLUELANCE
I ship them your honor. I ship them so badly 😭💘 And the tension between them is just so perfect and palpable. Like I wanted Darcy to just jump on him. Also their forbiddeness adds more to their dynamic. They both are so obsessed with each other and their eyes always found each other. So romantic. I also know they are going to be my favourite couple in this series. I really want them to build trust between them which is nowhere to be seen right now, but I know they are inevitable. And Lance calls her BLUE 🤭💙 Yes! I'm all in for #BLUELANCE

“Blue, you’re with me.” He pointed at me and I scowled at the nickname.


I lifted my chin and the air became thick between us. “One day, Professor, I'm going to be strong enough to fight you off.”
He took a measured breath and I felt like he was sucking something vital out of my body that I wasn’t sure I’d ever get back.
“I know,” he said, his eyes glittering. “But until that day, you're mine, Blue.”

➙ Darius and Tory
Do I ship them?? YESS BECAUSE THEY ARE INEVITABLE but also not right now until he begged Tory and until Tory take her revenge on him. I want all the angst and enemies to lovers but I also want Darius to treat her the way she deserves to be treated. There is not much ToryDarius in this which hopefully changes in book 2 🤞


The ending. Well it's a cliffhanger with a upcoming mystery plotline and all. And I'm already in too deep with this series and these characters so why not just binge read the rest of the books now!!


Drugs? Hell no!!
Zodiac Academy?? YESS IT IS THE BEST KIND OF CRACK!!


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The fomo was too much to handle so here I am finally starting my journey of Zodiac Academy 🤭
I have a feeling I'm going to be very very very addicted to this crack 😙