Book Review: The Blackstone Legacy By Apryl Baker

The Blackstone Legacy
(Bloodlines Legacy #3)
By Apryl Baker

Since stabbing her brother, Alexandria Reed has lived at Compton Academy, a mental institute disguised as a school. But it wasn’t her fault…was it? Her night terrors had become as real to her as breathing, and she could no longer distinguish reality from her nightmares.

After a long road, her doctor has declared her well enough to leave Compton and rejoin her family in the outside world, but she's worried she won't be able to handle it.

Turns out she’s right, and the monsters are back. The sights and sounds of the horrific creatures snarling and snapping cause her to regress. To hurt people.

She's strapped down to a bed again, the victim of her own insanity. With the help of Dr. Marcel, she's hopeful she can once again put the nightmares to rest.

Only things aren't as they seem. There's something off about the doctor, and she’s having strange dreams—even stranger than the monsters that haunt her. Dreams of a reality where she’s happy and content, but also full of magic and danger.

In the end, she will have to choose one reality over another.

But where does she belong? In the safe, normal reality—or the one that calls to her insanity?

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My Review:

I'm pretty sure I made a mistake picking up this book first. The synopsis, to my sleep-deprived brain, sounded interesting and didn't state that I specifically needed to read the other books in the series to understand this one.

Even though I'm completely out of the loop with the story I will say that having half this book take place in a mental health institution made for a very boring read because barely anything happened. This book also played with the notion of what "reality" really was and even though it was initially interesting I didn't have the beginning of the story to keep me invested in what was happening to care for what eventually happened.

The main character started out very interesting but she lost some of her sparkle along the way. To be frank I still don't really know what she was (paranormal creature wise). I also didn't like how she recapped most of what happened to her in the institution after she left in real time. I just wanted the story to move along at that point!

The dialogue after she left the institution also became strange. Too many people had unnamed accents and a lot of them were also foreign (and the author projected that into the grammar which lost me in the first chapter that that started happening).

Overall, everything that occurred here was my own fault. If I had been paying attention I would have started the series from the beginning (like a normal person does).

My Favorite Quotes:

"Saying nothing is sometimes the best answer to a difficult question."

"Believing it doesn't make it true."

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