Intriguing start to a slow burn RH. I am looking forward to seeing how the relationships develop.

Three words: Seven Hot Boys
How could this book not be awesome if it has seven swoon-worthy men and a like-able protagonist?

Introductions is exactly what the title says: an introduction. We are shown all the main players of C.L. Stone’s The Academy and apart from teeny teasers about what’s to come. Nothing really happens. But there’s still so much going on in this story that I wasn’t bored for a second!

Sang, our girl, is a quiet one who wants to prove to her parents that the world outside is not full of rapists and murderers. She ventures out and finds herself becoming part of a group of seven boys. The twist being that Sang’s parents can’t find out about this budding friendship, because if they do, bad things will happen (suppressing urge to give a spoiler here.)

The boys, though extremely nice and perfect gentlemen are hiding something from Sang and she is confused about where that puts her. But that’s one of the reasons why I like her so much. She’s so loyal, and believing but at the same time she knows that being clingy is wrong. And I love the fact that she’s willing to take risks for herself.

I can’t pick my favorite guy in this book because they are all so good! Seven boys and not one got on my nerves! Loved the way Stone has given them different personalities and different voices and made them all so unique! But still if I had to pick one it would definitely be Kota (Dakota), the first guy to be introduced, the reason Sang finds the rest.

I would have loved it even more if this book had something else other than just introductions. Fine, the reveals in the end were really intriguing but I really was hoping for more.

The Final Words:
Multiple boys and one girl stories are usually interesting on a lot of levels. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and would love to read the next part!

Ugh. I couldn't even finish this book. I couldn't handle the writing and immaturity of Sang. I really wanted to push through it but, I decided nope, not gonna happen.

Read: 9/11/15-9/12/15

I’m not sure how to feel about these books. They are odd and a bit cheesy, but I can’t seem to put them down. I have read through book 12. The older I get the more weird they are for me to read, but I still read them. Luckily they are not as “steamy” as some reverse harem books about high schoolers... but they are okay

Is the story good? No, not really. Have I read it 5 times in the last 3 years? You betcha.

This is a glacial burn story with a heavy focus on ‘pastoral scenes’, we see every detail of everything like ‘opening the cupboard, opening the bag of chocolate chips, taking a handful of the chips, adding the handful to the batter, stirring it in’- you get the picture. The book series is still ongoing and the author plans to write 20 books for the series, all are planned to be clean romance so if you’re thinking it will get spicy you’re going to be disappointed. The characters are very young and the original audience for the series is probably going to be 40 before it’s done.

The most annoying part on rereading is that this book series takes place over just a few months of time, but since there is so much time between the books the evolution of modern technology has made a lot of the series obsolete and what was a modern contemporary story is soon becoming historical romance with all the Gameboy talk and old iPhone versions

I have no truly good reason for reading this book. Sure, I've experienced reverse harem anime - and my share of otome VN's - but never a reverse harem in this medium. However, it was free and while trying to find something to catch my attention, I came across it.

Did I enjoy it? Yup.

Was it a good book? Nope.

;)

I am, however, quite a bit older than the target audience - I did enjoy it though. You see, after a couple of truly horrible 'love interests' I was looking for a book that would have some romance, but the guy/s would be nice and bear no resemblance to a Neanderthal slug.

Knowing what I do about reverse harem - and how the guys are usually all sweethearts, even if I don't always like them all - I decided that the guys would probably be pleasant to be around, at least.

When you befriended one, you befriended them all.

And they were. All the guys are nice - though sometimes it feels like their personalities aren't quite settled. Almost as though they don't even hit the stereotypes that most of these type of guys have instead of personality. But they were sweet and good looking and that's exactly what I was wanting.

Sang, the 'lucky' MC that has half-a-dozen boys fawning over her, is actually pretty typical for this genre.

"I hope it doesn't mean Mr. McCoy dislikes my skirt because he doesn't look good in skirts."

She's inexperienced with people in general and boys in particular. She has a absolutely horrible home life with an abusive mother. (And I tell you, one of those scenes was especially cringe-worthy.) She's kind of klutzy and air headed - but, I'm telling you - I didn't hate her for it.

Maybe I was just in the right mood for this book, but I wanted to hug her and protect her from that evil mother of hers.

There really isn't much of a plot here, just introducing everyone. Seriously, we spent a whole, rather long, chapter shopping at the mall! For pity's sake, they cook breakfast together. How cute is that!

If I were going to compare this book to food, it would be caramel popcorn: it tastes great in small batches but you'll never get full on it and if you eat too much you'll feel sick.

I wouldn't mind reading more of this series, but with a projected twenty books so far, and not even half that published, I don't think I have the patience.

(Originally posted on my blog: http://pagesofstarlight.blogspot.com/)

Absolutely love the story I had to go out and buy a next book it takes you want and scary but kind of fun journey depending on how you look at it I recommend this is a nice treat for someone younger are even older