Ghosting Academy by Lexy Delorme
It’s been years since Amelie abandoned her home to become an elite agent of the Academy.
In its embrace she has found support and stability, but in return the Academy uses her gifts for destruction and control. For ten years, she has chosen to live only for the moment, neither questioning nor considering the motives of her employer.
But when Amelie and her pod of fellow agents, “graduate” into becoming strategic operatives, they are spirited off to an isolated island. Here they uncover a labyrinth of deception and lies far more sinister than any they ever imagined, including Verite, a new virtual reality game, in which time has no meaning and your blood holds the keys to your soul.
In the Ghosting Academy, consciousness is currency, morality is shackles and there is no death.
My Review
In Ghosting Academy, we have moved forward many years and Amelie is now working as an elite agent for the Academy. But all is not as it seems and there are some very sinister goings on there. Amelie and her friends have been taken to an island from which there is no escape.
Some of this is really quite scary – I actually found it scarier than Lexy’s other books. The beach scene in particular is very nasty, with the fish and what they do (this is mentioned more than once and it chilled my blood). One reason not to try and swim for it to get away.
I can’t pretend that I understood everything that was going on – Shells, Simulacra, Incubi and Cambion. It’s all very complicated and I was often out of my depth. Especially with the virtual reality game Verite, as I never graduated past The 7th Guest.
Apart from Amelie, we met some new characters – James, Majo and Widget from her ‘pod’, plus the ‘Director’, but we are also reintroduced to others like Lazlo and Veronica from Fanning Fireflies, Caio, Dante and Kara, and Clovis and Rose from Bright Midnights.
Somehow I don’t think this is the last we will see of Amelie and co. There is so much left unresolved, and we need answers. I really enjoyed Ghosting Academy, even though it is not my usual genre. It is probably my favourite of the three books by this author that I have read so far.
Many thanks to @LiterallyPR for inviting me me to be part of the #GhostingAcademy blog tour.
About the Author
Lexy Delorme was born in San Diego, California. After graduating from the University of North Carolina School of law, various internships and years working in risk, tax, family, and international law, she now classifies herself as a recovering attorney. With a father who served in the US Military, Lexy had a wandering lifestyle from her earliest days and in her time has been a pop musician, a science geek and a writer for magazines like Bonjour Paris and Playtimes. Throughout all of her different careers, her love of fiction has been a mainstay.
Within this eclectic life, she was also one of the first employees at 23andMe, a genomics and biotechnology company based in Mountain View, California and that experience influenced the genetic aspects of her Limerent Series, of which Caio is the first book.
For as long as she can remember she’s had characters in her head. As a child, these were the friends she wished to have. As a young woman, the lovers she wanted to find or the people she wanted to become. Writing fiction novels allows her the chance to give these characters a background, a story and a voice.
Having lived in in three continents, none US states, and 21 cities around the world, including London and Hong Kong, Lexy now lives in Paris with her French husband and two very cool sons. She is currently working on the next books in the Limerent Series.
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