Volume Two of the Zodiac Academy series is a revenge book. The Four Celestial Heirs ~ four privileged males ~ have led such an entitled life that no-one has ever dared to give them push back.
So they are shocked when someone steals their prized possessions (Darius), or infests them with fleas (Seth), or drops a huge sex toy on their bed (Caleb), or infects them with an agonizing skin disease (Max).
Their go-to emotion is fury, but fury doesn’t get them very far. In some cases it makes things a whole lot worse.
This gradual challenge to life in a Golden Orb (the not-so-coincidental name for the Student Union) makes these four fall apart when they have to play a rival Academy at Pit Bull, their favorite sport, which is insanely brutal.
Much to their disbelief and horror, things do not go their way. But then a real attack occurs in which everyone has to fight for their lives, and the Vega twins prove their worth.
Kudos to sister-authors Susanne Valenti and Caroline Peckham for spending the time on character transformation and for allowing emotion to unspool on the page. Instead of baddies and goodies and cardboard characters, we have complex people with searing emotions. Five stars.
