Secrets and Seductions Preston Academy 1 by Bianca Mov

Secrets and Seductions Preston Academy 1 by Bianca Mov | A Review

Hi there Readers!!!!

Welcome back to Quills and Pages. This is Quills and I am back with another amazing book today "Secrets and Seduction" by Bianca Mov. This is the first book in the series of Preston Academy Series. I found this book through social media where someone was ranting about the plot twist this book has and I was like I am so in. I love a book that surprise me.

Blurb

Welcome to Preston Academy—watch your back, the walls have ears. You have been warned.

Avery, a criminal, scarred and haunted by her past, finds herself at the Preston Academy—a boarding school for troubled juveniles.

Alexander, a professor and heir to his parent’s legacy, is struck by Avery’s dark inner and bright outer beauty—and he hates her for it.

The start of a forbidden romance. A tale full of mysteries and dangers. A love that ignites unknown passion and destroys the soul—especially when Avery discovers Alexander’s morbid secret. Will she give in to the seduction of hell itself, or can she save herself from her sealed fate?

GENRE
Dark Academia with Forbidden Romance

THEME AND TONE
Dark

LANGUAGE AND WRITING STYLE
Easy to Read

CHARACTERS
Insane Characters

TROPES

☙ Forbidden Love

☙ Professor x Student

☙ Time Lapse

☙ Slow burn

☙ Mystery
☙ School for Criminals

☙ Forced Proximity

☙ Epic Plot Twist

MY REVIEW
So someone on social media was talking about the amazing earth shattering plot twist at the end and I was like I want this book. I started reading it on Kindle Unlimited soon after. I found the goodreads ratings to be low of this book but I thought let's give it a chance.

Anyway I started reading it and I was reading it with a critical and skeptical eye. There is a girl who burns a house and confess to her crime and goes to jail but came out on bail only to be sent to a boarding school for criminals education. She was pretty unimpressed by her teachers and fellow students who behave strangely at times and to be honest so was I. But I kept reading and it was slow at start then nothing was happening.....same school routine until all of a sudden last chapters came and I was like.......WHAT JUST HAPPENED?

I have to say I was underestimating the potential. the end was an absolute best crescendo to the slow beginning. It was like author was preparing her readers to be as un-impressed as possible only to drop a bomb at the end. It was the best thing I ever experienced. i love a book that is unpredictable like that. I could not imagine ever that this was going to happen.

And when you reach that ending everything you read before started making sense. And I read the book again after that ending 😅. On the whole this book is a 5 star from me. It was perfect.

THE PARTS I LIKE
☙ The Plot

THE PARTS I DID NOT LIKE
☙ Everything was perfect after that ending

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Happy Reading!!

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