Legacies
Who—or what—is stalking the students at Oakhurst Academy?In the wake of the accident that killed her family, Spirit White is spirited away to Oakhurst Academy, a combination school and orphanage in the middle of Montana. There she learns she is a legacy—not only to the school, which her parents...
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Who—or what—is stalking the students at Oakhurst Academy?In the wake of the accident that killed her family, Spirit White is spirited away to Oakhurst Academy, a combination school and orphanage in the middle of Montana. There she learns she is a legacy—not only to the school, which her parents also attended, but to magic. All the students at Oakhurst have magical powers, and although Spirit’s hasn’t manifested itself yet, the administrators insist she has one. Spirit isn’t sure she cares. Devastated by the loss of her family, she finds comfort with a group of friends: Burke Hallows, Lachlann Spears, Muirin Shae, and Adelaide Lake. But something strange is going on at Oakhurst. Students start disappearing under mysterious circumstances, and the school seems to be trying to cover it up. Spirit and her friends must find out what’s happening—before one of them becomes the next victim…
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780765317612 (0765317613)
Publish date: July 6th 2010
Publisher: Tor Teen
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Magic,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Teen,
Paranormal,
Urban Fantasy,
Mystery,
Supernatural,
School Stories,
Boarding School
Series: Shadow Grail (#1)
In common with several other reviewers I'm not sure that the characters of the teenager are right. I also found that it occasionally lagged. Spirit White has survived a catastrophic accident that killed the rest of her family and now she is going to a school called Oakhurst Academy where everyone ...
Legacies is set at Oakhurst, a Hogwarts-like school for magicians. (I might have been able to forget that Oakhurst was like Hogwarts, if the authors didn't keep reminding me.) Every student at the school is an orphan, and all (or most) are children of Oakhurst graduates. Nobody questions the high mo...
I picked this up because one of the authors is Mercedes Lackey and I really love her books but I had a hard time getting into this one. It felt different from her other books and I don't know if I'll go looking for the rest of the series.
I really don’t like the way everything seemed to be Harry Potter-ish and the only difference was that the protagonist here is a girl. It is so much like Harry from the beginning where she lost her whole family in a tragic accident and she was the only survivor and the way there was a secret school f...
I really don’t like the way everything seemed to be Harry Potter-ish and the only difference was that the protagonist here is a girl. It is so much like Harry from the beginning where she lost her whole family in a tragic accident and she was the only survivor and the way there was a secret school f...
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