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Legend Valley Academy: The Complete Trilogy
Welcome to Legend Valley Academy.
Where monsters and myths from every culture in the world...are real.
When Mal Jones gets a chance to enter Legend Valley Academy, she thinks it's the perfect place to lay low. As the only child of a broke single mom, Mal has been using her magic to break the law in return for cold, hard cash. But when the police almost bust her, Mal needs an escape—fast.
She's got a criminal on her tail, so a magical academy in another freaking dimension is the best place to hide. Right?
Wrong.
All she had to do was keep her head down, but not standing out is harder than Mal thought. Turns out, her deadbeat dad is more famous than she knew.
And something horrible is going on at the Academy.
The worst part: Mal is one of the only witnesses…
***
This edition includes all three books in the hugely popular LEGEND VALLEY ACADEMY series, a Young Adult Urban Fantasy trilogy that is a coming-of-age story about screw-ups and second chances, discovering yourself, and finding out where you truly belong.
Perfect for fans of Star Daughter and Percy Jackson and the Olympians.
This Complete Collection Includes:
Book 1: Notorious
Book 2: Tenacious
Book 3: Righteous
Includes 2 bonus short stories - Korou's POV of his first meeting with Mal, and the backstory of our favorite vampire.
Don't miss your chance to binge the entire series!
If you love reading about slow burn romance, enemies-to-lovers, unusual shifters, and supernatural mystery, then fall into this magical new Young Adult diverse fantasy series that's Gossip Girl meets Bollywood.
***
PRAISE FOR LEGEND VALLEY ACADEMY
Mal is a strong-willed character with big ideas, a lot of personality, and an attitude that makes her funny, charming, and gives her room to grow and evolve. She discovers more to Legend Valley than what's on the surface which becomes a mystery at the root of the story and has her looking deeper at her new home.
Sudha Kuruganti creates a story with humor and an upbeat tone and plenty of witty dialogue. Notorious is a coming-of-age journey about a teenager who has the opportunity to change her circumstances with a paranormal school that will allow her to find herself, harness the best of her abilities, and even become a hero. - Reader's Favorite
★★★★★
"...fully developed, three-dimensional characters with their own backstories and issues. A little bigotry, a little teenage romance, along with friendships - and an excellent storyline - makes this an engrossing read."
★★★★★
"..the integration of not just Hindu mythology, but other mythologies from all over the world, is brilliant. There was obviously a lot of research that went into this series and it shows."
★★★★★
“Sudha Kuruganti is a talented and gifted author. She will draw you into this world of enchanting beings and you will not want to leave. Her world-building is detailed and imaginative. This novel has strong, well-developed characters and an interesting storyline that keeps you turning the pages.”
★★★★★
“Awesome, unique, suspenseful, hard to put down - not the same old stuff in fantasy!”
★★★★★
“Whenever you read a book by Sudha, you know you get certain things: the book is well-structured, well-proofed, and well-edited; the storyline is fast-paced, without trite or contrived scenes; the story is strongly written, the characters are complex and well-developed and the dialogue is honest and believable.”
Where monsters and myths from every culture in the world...are real.
When Mal Jones gets a chance to enter Legend Valley Academy, she thinks it's the perfect place to lay low. As the only child of a broke single mom, Mal has been using her magic to break the law in return for cold, hard cash. But when the police almost bust her, Mal needs an escape—fast.
She's got a criminal on her tail, so a magical academy in another freaking dimension is the best place to hide. Right?
Wrong.
All she had to do was keep her head down, but not standing out is harder than Mal thought. Turns out, her deadbeat dad is more famous than she knew.
And something horrible is going on at the Academy.
The worst part: Mal is one of the only witnesses…
***
This edition includes all three books in the hugely popular LEGEND VALLEY ACADEMY series, a Young Adult Urban Fantasy trilogy that is a coming-of-age story about screw-ups and second chances, discovering yourself, and finding out where you truly belong.
Perfect for fans of Star Daughter and Percy Jackson and the Olympians.
This Complete Collection Includes:
Book 1: Notorious
Book 2: Tenacious
Book 3: Righteous
Includes 2 bonus short stories - Korou's POV of his first meeting with Mal, and the backstory of our favorite vampire.
Don't miss your chance to binge the entire series!
If you love reading about slow burn romance, enemies-to-lovers, unusual shifters, and supernatural mystery, then fall into this magical new Young Adult diverse fantasy series that's Gossip Girl meets Bollywood.
***
PRAISE FOR LEGEND VALLEY ACADEMY
Mal is a strong-willed character with big ideas, a lot of personality, and an attitude that makes her funny, charming, and gives her room to grow and evolve. She discovers more to Legend Valley than what's on the surface which becomes a mystery at the root of the story and has her looking deeper at her new home.
Sudha Kuruganti creates a story with humor and an upbeat tone and plenty of witty dialogue. Notorious is a coming-of-age journey about a teenager who has the opportunity to change her circumstances with a paranormal school that will allow her to find herself, harness the best of her abilities, and even become a hero. - Reader's Favorite
★★★★★
"...fully developed, three-dimensional characters with their own backstories and issues. A little bigotry, a little teenage romance, along with friendships - and an excellent storyline - makes this an engrossing read."
★★★★★
"..the integration of not just Hindu mythology, but other mythologies from all over the world, is brilliant. There was obviously a lot of research that went into this series and it shows."
★★★★★
“Sudha Kuruganti is a talented and gifted author. She will draw you into this world of enchanting beings and you will not want to leave. Her world-building is detailed and imaginative. This novel has strong, well-developed characters and an interesting storyline that keeps you turning the pages.”
★★★★★
“Awesome, unique, suspenseful, hard to put down - not the same old stuff in fantasy!”
★★★★★
“Whenever you read a book by Sudha, you know you get certain things: the book is well-structured, well-proofed, and well-edited; the storyline is fast-paced, without trite or contrived scenes; the story is strongly written, the characters are complex and well-developed and the dialogue is honest and believable.”
680 pages, ebook
Published March 31, 2022
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About the author
Sudha Kuruganti
16 books26 followersHi! I’m Sudha! 🌸
I write feel-good YA and NA fantasy romances inspired by Indian mythology—full of slow-burn love, family ties, and the kind of magic that makes you believe again.
My current series are Elementals of India and Legend Valley Academy. I love hearing from readers, so drop a comment or question anytime!
💌 Join my newsletter and reader group here: www.sudhakuruganti.com
I write feel-good YA and NA fantasy romances inspired by Indian mythology—full of slow-burn love, family ties, and the kind of magic that makes you believe again.
My current series are Elementals of India and Legend Valley Academy. I love hearing from readers, so drop a comment or question anytime!
💌 Join my newsletter and reader group here: www.sudhakuruganti.com
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May 19, 2022
This series helped rekindle my enjoyment of academy stories. I love the variety of different paranormals from various cultures that are represented here. Where it could be distracting, Ms Kuruganti is able to seamlessly weave them all together. The 2 MCs have a great storyline filled with some great, but not over the top, angst. Overall, this is a fantastic read from a very imaginative author.
April 15, 2022
Legends Valley is a Percy Jackson-esque magical school series with a focus on Asian mythologies. It follows Malaika (Mal), an Indian-American whose father left when she was a baby, leaving her disconnected from her Indian relatives and unaware of her magical heritage until a supernatural local spots her using illusion magic and introduces her to a whole different world.
The world of Legends Valley is really refreshing and different. It’s much more diverse than certain other magical school series, featuring lots of very different creatures from many different cultures, each with varied ethnicities and races and social norms. There were definitely creatures and myths I’d never encountered before included and I love that. And bonus points for explicitly queer background characters!
I love that there’s no ‘magical community’ in this world, there are just people in every community who happen to have magic. There’s one school for the global population, which caters to everybody, and many of the students want to go into non-magical professions once graduated. I also adore that there’s thoughtful discussion about the ethics of this sort of world - institutions holding magical relics looted from grave sites, for example, or challenging biased assumptions about certain creatures being good or evil by default of their genetics. I’d happily read ten more books building this world further!
The pacing of book 1 flowed perfectly for me, building the world and the characters and the plot so smoothly that I almost finished it in one sitting without meaning to. Book 2, however, had a bit of a lull in the first 1/3 - theoretically character building, but I don’t feel like it had much long-term relevance for the plot or the characters - and as a result some important story developments later feel very rushed and sudden, and then quickly resolved or moved passed without much examination. Book 3 is better than 2, but still never really recovers the pace for me.
This unfortunately impacts the romance the most, and I find it hard to feel properly invested in a couple when they’ve spent very few scenes together that weren’t dramatic plot development. I also feel like some of the side characters deserved more screen time, particularly Mal’s best friends Nik and Leela.
I didn’t enjoy book 2 and 3 as wholly as the first, and I also didn’t care for the bonus interludes included in this collection, but the things that make this series good are the stellar worldbuilding and the incredibly diverse and interesting cast and those two aspects alone are so well done it makes this book worth a read.
The world of Legends Valley is really refreshing and different. It’s much more diverse than certain other magical school series, featuring lots of very different creatures from many different cultures, each with varied ethnicities and races and social norms. There were definitely creatures and myths I’d never encountered before included and I love that. And bonus points for explicitly queer background characters!
I love that there’s no ‘magical community’ in this world, there are just people in every community who happen to have magic. There’s one school for the global population, which caters to everybody, and many of the students want to go into non-magical professions once graduated. I also adore that there’s thoughtful discussion about the ethics of this sort of world - institutions holding magical relics looted from grave sites, for example, or challenging biased assumptions about certain creatures being good or evil by default of their genetics. I’d happily read ten more books building this world further!
The pacing of book 1 flowed perfectly for me, building the world and the characters and the plot so smoothly that I almost finished it in one sitting without meaning to. Book 2, however, had a bit of a lull in the first 1/3 - theoretically character building, but I don’t feel like it had much long-term relevance for the plot or the characters - and as a result some important story developments later feel very rushed and sudden, and then quickly resolved or moved passed without much examination. Book 3 is better than 2, but still never really recovers the pace for me.
This unfortunately impacts the romance the most, and I find it hard to feel properly invested in a couple when they’ve spent very few scenes together that weren’t dramatic plot development. I also feel like some of the side characters deserved more screen time, particularly Mal’s best friends Nik and Leela.
I didn’t enjoy book 2 and 3 as wholly as the first, and I also didn’t care for the bonus interludes included in this collection, but the things that make this series good are the stellar worldbuilding and the incredibly diverse and interesting cast and those two aspects alone are so well done it makes this book worth a read.
July 14, 2022
Loved It!
Such a riveting tale. I had a hard time putting it down. I got so engrossed in the story that I actually felt like I was apart of the story.
Such a riveting tale. I had a hard time putting it down. I got so engrossed in the story that I actually felt like I was apart of the story.
April 20, 2022
When Mal Jones gets a chance to enter Legend Valley Academy, she thinks it's the perfect place to lay low. As the only child of a broke single mom, Mal has been using her magic to break the law in return for cold, hard cash. But when the police almost bust her, Mal needs an escape—fast.
Fast paced with lots of action .
A must read.
Fast paced with lots of action .
A must read.
May 26, 2022
An Academy Trilogy
I really enjoyed this series and read all three books in about the same number of days.
Well written with humour and wit. Hoping there is a follow on story i.e. What happens next for Mal, Korou, Leela and Nik?
I really enjoyed this series and read all three books in about the same number of days.
Well written with humour and wit. Hoping there is a follow on story i.e. What happens next for Mal, Korou, Leela and Nik?
April 1, 2022
I was hooked from the first page. The descriptions of the land and culture added so much to the intrigue of the story line. This is a brilliant read! It pulled me in from beginning and held my attention. The world building is detailed and imaginative. This novel has strong, well developed characters and an interesting story line that keeps you turning the pages. I recommend this novel and would read more novels by this author. An excellent read. I received this book from StoryOrigin. This is my true and honest review.
September 30, 2023
A cookie cutter Academy series. The world building was good and some of the artifacts were interesting. It was pretty predictable and I would have liked more character depth. I did not connect with Mal - some of her decisions didnt make sense and I dont think ever found out why she disliked the cop so bad. Overall it was steady paced and an easy read with no real surprises
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