The characters are all very realistic and three-dimensional, with only a few exceptions. The reader is kept in the dark about many things that are slowly revealed throughout the book, and some things are still cryptic at the end, leaving the reader wondering what happens next. She quickly makes loyal friends who are extremely likable and help her assimilate into her new life.

Alex may not be from Medora, but she may very well be the key to its survival.Īlex is a strong and personable main character and makes a good backbone for the story. Suddenly, Akarnae isn’t as safe as it once was, and everyone is in danger. However, she starts to doubt this when odd things start happening to Alex and secrets of Akarnae’s strange and seemingly magical Library are revealed to her alone.

It turns out that she supposedly has a gift as well, although she doesn’t have the slightest idea what it could be, or how she will fit in at Akarnae when she isn’t really all that special. Bewildered by all this new information, Alex has no choice but to enroll at Akarnae, the school for those who are gifted, until it's mysterious headmaster returns and can send her back to Earth. She is now in Medora, a world where people are born with powers and technology is so advanced it could be called magic. But when she gets there, she impossibly steps through a doorway into a different universe. Sent to a rigid, dreary boarding school for eight months while her parents fly off to a remote dig-site in Siberia, Alex is not looking forward to figuring out how high school actually works when you’re there longer than three months.

This means that every few months or so, she moves to some new country for their work. Alexandra Jennings is a sixteen year-old girl with archaeologists for parents.

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