Friends vs. Family: The Ghost Bird Series: #3 (The Academy Ghost Bird Series)
Book Description
Sang Sorenson is forced to suffer through another of her mother's extreme punishments. It almost kills her. The Academy boys vow it will be the last. They're determined to keep Sang safe, especially from her own family.
Their solution: complete invasion of her life.
Kota, Luke, Silas, Nathan, Victor, Gabriel and North do everything within their power to show Sang what true loyalty means. It takes more than blood to make a family and they want Sang in theirs.
In this third book of The Academy series Sang experiences a taste of freedom and what it's like to truly be cared for...to be wanted. Sang learns a bit more about the boys' broken families and the boys discover more than they could ever have bargained for about Sang's. The Academy was the answer to their problems. Could it be hers?
Sang's actions will force her mother to reveal a startling truth. A truth that will change Sang's life and the boys' lives in unpredictable ways. Forever.
Book Review
This is the turning point in the series. The book where Sang's mother ties her up and leaves her in the shower, literally to die. If it were not for Silas and Nathan's response to her call, she would have lost her life. The abusive relationship is finally brought to the attention of Mr. Blackbourne and Dr. Green. The boys have decided that she can't possibly stay in this situation, however Sang surprises them yet again.
She doesn't want to leave and get the boys in trouble. She is not aware of the Ghost Bird status that they are trying to preserve for her, but she feels that her mother is ill and needs help. Sang is brave but insecure. She wants to trust the boys, but she is so scarred from her abusive past that she finds it difficult. And without earning that trust the boys can't bring her into the Academy with them.
As their relationships continue to bloom, more than one boy has developed stronger feelings for her. I'm getting worried about jealousy turning up and ruining everything for Sang and her band of protectors. Can't wait to read the next book in the series.
Friends vs. Family: The Ghost Bird Series: #3 (The Academy Ghost Bird Series)
Book Description
Sang Sorenson used to be the invisible girl in class. As a new student to Ashley Waters High School, Sang hopes that her new friends will be the change she’s been craving and will make fitting in a breeze.
But Academy students aren’t there to take it easy. The high school is overcrowded and rife with violence. When fights begin, Sang will uncover the true reason the boys traded in their private school life for a public one.
This year, Sang will no longer be invisible. This year, Sang is a target.
The principal and vice principal are hot to take Sang down, and her own mother is determined to entrap Sang forever in her belief that the safest place to be is in the shadows. Despite this, Nathan, Luke, Kota, North, Silas, Victor, and Gabriel will discover Sang’s unyielding loyalty.
And they will sorely need it. The Academy, supremely influential.
Book Review
Sang gets accepted into her new school and compares schedules with the boys. She shares Homeroom with Luke and North. Then AP English with Kota, Gabriel and Luke. AP Geometry with Nathan and North. Violin with Mr Blackbourne. AP World History with Victor and North. AP Biology with Silas. Japanese taught by Dr. Green and attended by Victor. Finally Gym with Gabriel and Nathan.
It may seem like overkill, but knowing the schedule will help keep a lot of things straight in the future books, I promise. Anyhow, the school has become a whole lot more fun now that Sang has the boys around. They try to protect her from McCoy, but when Sang ends up with detention, they all manage to get detention to go along with her.
Sang also manages to stop a barbaric practice called "Friday Fall" where one student gets chucked down two stories of stairs. She manages to prevent Kota from being thrown over and as Greg throws her down instead manages to garner the support of the school's football team when Rocky comes to her rescue.
The rowdiness of the overcrowded school explains just why the Academy students are there. It also gives a valid excuse for the boys to be extra protective of Sang. Although she is trying to pull her weight and care for them as much as they care for her. This is the book where Dr. Roberts reveals Sang's "Ghost Bird" status and Mr. Blackbourne decides to go for the closed adoption.
First Days: The Ghost Bird Series: #2 (The Academy Ghost Bird Series)
Introductions: The Ghost Bird Series: #1 (The Academy Ghost Bird Series)
Book Description
With an agoraphobic mother and a barely-there father, Sang abhors the isolation keeping her in the shadows. The only thing Sang craves is a fresh start and to be accepted as ordinary by her peers, because for her being different meant being cast out alone.
When her family moves to a new school district, Sang infiltrates a group of boys nearly perfect in every way. Grateful for an influence outside of her parents' negativity, she quickly bonds with the boys, hoping to blend in and learn from them what it means to have a natural relationship with friends.
Only the boys have secrets of their own and they'll do anything to keep her safe from the knowledge of the mysterious Academy that they've sworn allegiance to. Bit by bit, Sang discovers that her friends are far from the normalcy she expected. Will her loyalty change when she's forced to remain in the dark, or will she accept that she's traded one house of secrets for another?
Book Review
I have been reading this series for a while now, I just haven't had time to put down the Kindle and write a review. Sang is a small, delicate girl who has led a tough childhood. Her mother doesn't allow her to go out because she believes that the world is full of people out to harm her. Sang is scared that she is gradually becoming just like her mother and she needs to do something that will let her know that the outside world is not as scary as her mother thinks.
In her wisdom Sang decides that she needs to spend at least one night away from home without her parent's knowledge and prove to herself that she can survive out there. Only trouble is the night she picks, it begins to rain and then she gets flattened by Max, a golden retriever belonging to her neighbour Kota.
Kota feels guilty about her hurting her arm and invites her over to his place to look over the wound...and there by begins the friendship that will literally change Sang's life. Kota introduces her to his friends and Sang feels loved and protected amongst them. There is just one thing that mars her happiness, the shadow of the Academy that the boys attend is always hanging over them.
Introductions: The Ghost Bird Series: #1 (The Academy Ghost Bird Series)
