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The Paladin Prophecy is the first in the book in the The Paladin Prophecy series, written by Mark Frost. Mark Frost is an author who wrote the national and international bestselling novel The List of Seven and a sequel, The Six Messiahs. However, this is the first book that I have read by this wonderful and amazing writer.


We are met with our protagonist, Will West, a high school student who lives in California. After scoring unusually high on a general aptitude test, Will is invited to join a private academy, The Center for Integrated Learning. With some amazing abilities, Will is able to look into people’s mind and “push” mental images into their heads, making them see and do what he wants. (Sort of like Professor X in X-Men) He can also run longer distances in a shorter amount of time without a hint of fatigue or weariness. While considering to join the Wisconsin private educational center, he soon notices that a black sedan has begun to fall him around. And at the point of getting a weird and strange text from his parents, Will decides he must run. But as to where, Will can only think of one place. He calls up his recruiter, Dr. Robins and informs her that he will indeed be accepting the invitation and would like to start attending as soon as possible. Jumping into a cab, driven by a guy named Nando, he takes off to the airport for this school. That is where everything breaks loose.


Through the rest of the story the action is fast and hard hitting. Mark Frost does an outstanding job forming the characters and their unique personalities, making you feel like you could really be a friend with these sort of people, like you are part of the book. Either you are going to love them or hate them but in the end the character are what make this story come to life. Nick (who is my favorite character), Brooke, Ajay, Elise and Ronnie won’t fail to amaze as the book evolves into the unforgettable tale of adventures and thrills. However it is critical to pay attention to what you are reading at times for Frost plot twist and theme turns are at time confusing, yet excited and bring more detailing to the tale itself.


In the end, I really enjoyed this book. I keep forgetting to place a damn book mark in the spot I stop at which wasn’t offend but I still. Guess it is time to start buying book with automatic bookmarks like epubs and mobi. I guess forgetting to bookmark your place just lets you know how much you really enjoying the book that you’re reading. I have read mixed reviews of book two, but I will keep my head up and positive when I read the next one. I think I will fall back on all that I read in this one and rely on that to look forward to.

Fan-freakin'-tastic multi-part coordinated complex battle scene. Tight, tight, tight writing. Five stars. The Battle of Pellinor Field would tip its hat to this battle. Every single surprise that Frost brought out of the box had been foreshadowed. And I was still surprised. Yes.

When I began this one, I did not expect such excellence (yeah, kid discovers powers, yeah, special school...). Not one single loose end that was not acknowledged as such.

Supporting characters striving for a little depth... but what teenager isn't?

I will definitely re-read. I immediately downloaded book II and am enjoying it!

The *only* thing I might quibble with, and that just in fun, is that the cross-country team is usually the nicest kids in a school not ... well. Spoilers, sweetie.

I actually just picked up this book random, I saw the name and decided to download it. And I'm glad I did. Honestly, this book is a really hard book to categorize because it really didn't end up in the mold of any of my previous shelves. And I think that's what I liked about it, why it was so much fun for me.

In the beginning I got a very Percy Jackson feel as Will is introduced. There's a lot of intrigue about who he is and where he comes from right out of the gate. And there's not a whole lot of time wasted on story set up before the action starts. Thankfully this action isn't at the expense of character development.

But as we get further into the story, we start to meet a whole host of other people like Mark (who I just love, but my love of angels sorta sways my opinion there) and then the kids at the school like Elise, Brooke, Nick, and Ajay. I love them all. I even liked Lyle, which shouldn't surprise anyone that knows my love of devious characters.

All in all, this book took a lot of turns I wasn't expecting. The school vibe reminded me a lot of [b:How to Lead a Life of Crime|15715844|How to Lead a Life of Crime|Kirsten Miller|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1351217641s/15715844.jpg|21385511], just without being so criminally directed. It's very much that whole idea that there's an elite few people that control the world we live in. I find that really interesting.

Plus the book has a fair amount of diversity in the cast, but it doesn't really feel the need to draw attention to that. I did think it was weird that there were a lot of mentions of Native Americans though, perhaps I only noticed some of it because of my job. Some comments obviously related to the overall storyline and other's would be passing comments. Definitely wasn't a bad thing, it just reminded me of how an anthropologist would describe things. I really wouldn't mind if stories looked more in depth at Native American history instead of relying on historically known groups (Cherokee, Chickasaw, etc.) to describe all of American history prior to European contact. I DIGRESS!

I really enjoyed this story, I'm looking forward to the next one and finding out more about this prophecy.

Ah
... the audiobook wasn't as good as the ebook from what I remember
..rip...it just seemed very juvenile...

It wasn't the worst but not the best either. It did a really good job of keeping up suspense but relied heavily on tropes. The women had absolutely no role in the movement of the plot and served only as love interest. Characters took supernatural elements in stride without enough incredulity making the whole thing unrealistic.