Delayed Admission - Heather Renee

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Title: Delayed Admission
Author: Heather Renee
Genre: Paranormal
Rating: 3/5
# pages: Audiobook ~6hrs
Date read: May 2024

To Raegan Keyes, she's the only one of her kind but has no idea what she is. Until one night, when she finds out her unexplainable abilities aren't the only thing she needs to worry about, and her world becomes much bigger than she ever could have dreamed.

When a mysterious man named Enzo arrives, too striking to be human, Raegan learns she's not as alone as she believed. As more secrets are revealed, she's swept off to an academy for others like her thousands of miles away from home by a complete stranger whom she'd rather stab than travel with.

As tension builds between Raegan and Enzo, she begins to find her purpose as she settles into her new existence. With a group of new friends, she's finally feeling alive again. That is until something sinister comes along, once more throwing her life into mayhem.


This could have been an amazing book, but unfortunately the author couldn't quite deliver. There were some pacing issues along the way, and the ending was a lot more open than the story warranted.

Which is a shame, because the world building and character building was really well done! I very much enjoyed reading about life at Shadow Veil Academy, I loved the friendship between Raegan and Gemma, and was very pleased that the "mean girls" weren't irredeemably so (shades of Viv in "Legally Blonde).

At the end of the day I enjoyed the book, but due to its flaws I can't rate it higher than 3 stars. Especially as I didn't find the villain interesting enough for me to immediately reach for the second book in the series.