The Candidates
Dancia Lewis has a secret problem: whenever she sees someone threaten a person she cares about, it's a disaster. Cars skid. Structures collapse. Usually someone gets hurt. So Dancia does all she can to avoid getting close to anyone, hoping to suppress her powers and stay under the radar. But when...
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Dancia Lewis has a secret problem: whenever she sees someone threaten a person she cares about, it's a disaster. Cars skid. Structures collapse. Usually someone gets hurt. So Dancia does all she can to avoid getting close to anyone, hoping to suppress her powers and stay under the radar. But when recruiters from the prestigious Delcroix Academy offer her a scholarship, she accepts. After all, it's a school for diplomats' kids and prodigies, not B students with uncontrollable telekinetic tendencies. Or is it?This captivating debut, the first in a series, puts a paranormal twist on private school.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781423116363 (1423116364)
Publish date: August 24th 2010
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH
Pages no: 293
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Magic,
Teen,
Paranormal,
Urban Fantasy,
Academic,
School,
Romance,
Supernatural,
School Stories,
Boarding School
Series: Delcroix Academy (#1)
Inhalt: Dancia Lewis will so wenig wie möglich auffallen, um ihr Geheimnis für sich zu bewahren: Immer wenn jemand einen Menschen bedroht, der ihr wichtig ist … passiert es einfach! Autos geraten ins Schleudern, Gebäude brechen zusammen – und meist wird jemand verletzt. Als ihr ein Stipendium an der...
Posted to http://www.nobentspines.blogspot.com/*Author Provided a free copy in exchange for an honest review*Okay. So this might be one of the few books that I don't have a book boyfriend in. Humm. One was just too freaking nice. He was too perfect. Way to sunshiny and rainbow-like. EVERYBODY likes ...
Rating: 1.5/5 starsInara Scott's portrayal of Dancia's character as a timid teenager with underlying raging hormones and paranormal issues felt way TOO realistic and (generally) accurate! Therefore, way too annoying.
The Candidates is one of the novels that I have been dying to read for such a long time that when I finally got the chance to read it I had been expecting so much. And already, I am happy to tell you all that the novel gave me everything I wanted and more! I will admit that because of the blurb tha...