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    First Frost
    First Frost
    First Frost
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    First Frost

    By Jennifer Estep

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    A teenage girl with a unique gift finds herself in a world of trouble—and a school for warriors—in this YA fantasy series prequel novella.

    I am Gwen Frost, and I have a Gypsy gift. It's called psychometry – that's a fancy way of saying that I see flashes of other people's memories when I touch almost anything, even guys. My gift makes me kind of nosy. Okay, maybe a lot nosy. But even I don't want to know the secrets my friend Paige is hiding or the terrible loss that will send me to a new school—Mythos Academy, where instead of preparing for the SAT’s the students prepare to battle Reapers of Chaos. Now I have no friends and no idea how my gift fits in with all these warrior whiz kids. The only thing I do know is that my life is never, ever going to be the same.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKensington Books
    Release dateJun 9, 2011
    ISBN9780758275073
    First Frost
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    Jennifer Estep

    Jennifer Estep is a New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling author who prowls the streets of her imagination in search of her next fantasy idea. Jennifer is the author of the Crown of Shards, Elemental Assassin, and other fantasy series. She has written more than 35 books, along with numerous novellas and stories. In her spare time, Jennifer enjoys hanging out with friends and family, doing yoga, and reading fantasy and romance books. She also watches way too much TV and loves all things related to superheroes.

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    • 4/5
      I have read all of Estep's Elemental Assassin series and was excited to hear she was starting the young adult Mythos Academy series. The first full length book in this series is, Touch of Frost, and will be released July 26th. This short story was a good intro to the series and really set things up nicely.Gwen Frost is a girl with Gypsy magic that goes to a normal high school. When her Gypsy magic inadvertently causes catastrophe to strike her life she finds herself at Mythos Academy; a magical place where people with similar powers attend school.I should state right away that this is the story of how Gwen ended up going to Mythos Academy. So, basically this whole story is just set up. That being said I enjoyed the set up, I liked Gwen as a character, and I was intrigued by the brief glimpse I did get of Mythos Academy.You don't see a lot of Mythos Academy and that was kind of disappointing. What I did see of it I liked. It sounds very Harry Potterish or kind of like Camp Half Blood (from Percy and the Olympians) but with a more teen bent to it.Overall I enjoyed the story. I liked Gwen as a character and liked learning how she got to Mythos academy. I am eager to see more of Mythos Academy and can't wait to read Touch of Frost when it is released. If you are a Jennifer Estep fan and like young adult novels definitely check this out; it is a good intro to the series.
    • 4/5
      As the victim of an unfortunate vacuum cleaner accident just the day before, I had to laugh at the opening of First Frost as 17-year-old Bianca struggles with her own beast of a vacuum. She works hard helping her mother Rose run the family fairy tale museum, responsible for cleaning it and running the gift shop -- a little like Cinderella except without the wicked stepmother.

      I liked the fresh take on the fairy tale genre, setting it in a modern-day museum, and enjoyed the descriptions of the museum’s artifacts, all iconic pieces from different fairy tales.

      If you’ve ever wondered what the “real” story is behind the famous tales, this book is for you. The author very cleverly weaves fairy tale history into this modern adventure. Bianca embarks on a quest with her best friend Ming to save Bianca’s mother Rose. Along the way, she meets a prince and his friend who becomes her love interest. The story moves forward with plenty of action as the group must figure out how to get to Rose and vanquish the evil villainess.

      This book will definitely appeal to lovers of fantasy and those of us who grew up with princesses, princes, witches and castles; in other words, most of us.
    • 3/5
      This short novella introduces Gwen and her powers. It's also incredibly sad. The reader gets to see the downsides of Gwen's power. It's a heavy start to a heavy series.
    • 5/5
      This is a short story of the beginning of Gwen Frost. I loved this book cause it gave a better insight on Gwen and her gift. The reader meets Gwen as we first see her powers come into play. I really adored that the setting is in the past so the reader for the first first time gets to see Gwen's mom.I feel the story gives a great back round history to Gwen and her life. I loved that while it was filled with he discovery of her power, it also foreshadowed the dark future that Gwen will be facing.If you have not picked up this series you should. This is a great short story that sets the tone for a great series that I know everyone will enjoy!
    • 3/5
      This novella was fun and good but it felt more like a collection of cut scenes from the first book. We see Gwen first learning about Mythos and her orientation for the school and first encounter with Logan but I learn anything I didn't already know. Still it's a short read and worth the amount it takes to read it.
    • 2/5
      This is Mythos Academy 0.5 so I imagine you were meant to read it as a prologue to the series. I read it after I'd already read the first book and I'm glad I did. As a prologue, this story doesn't do its job. It does introduce me to Gwen and her powers, but it doesn't tell me as much about the series as I'd like.

      This story isn't necessary to your enjoyment of the Mythos Academy series.

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    First Frost - Jennifer Estep

    FIRST FROST

    A Mythos Academy Novella

    Jennifer Estep

    KENSINGTON PUBLISHING CORP.

    www.kensingtonbooks.com

    All copyrighted material within is Attributor Protected.

    Table of Contents

    Title Page

    Copyright Page

    Can I borrow your hairbrush?

    Paige Forrest stared at the long mirror mounted over the row of sinks that lined one wall of the girls’ locker room. Gym class had ended three minutes ago, and all the girls were busy yanking off their sweaty T-shirts and shorts and changing back into their real clothes—the skinny jeans and tight, cropped tops they wore to impress themselves, each other and, most important, the cute boys at Ashland High School.

    Everyone except for Paige, who stood frozen in front of the mirror. She was pretty with her long black hair and pale green eyes, but I didn’t think that Paige was looking at herself with the normal vanity of a sixteen-year-old girl. For one, Paige wasn’t putting on a fresh coat of lip gloss or mascara or dusting her face with sparkling powder like the other girls crowded at the mirror were. She wasn’t gossiping with the girls around her or wondering what disgusting, gray mystery meat was going to be served in the cafeteria today. She wasn’t even texting on her phone or checking her messages.

    No, Paige was leaning over the sink and peering into her own eyes as if she could see something in herself that everyone else couldn’t—something horrible, from the pained, twisted expression on her face.

    The look made me want to know what she was hiding.

    I was kind of nosy that way. Okay, okay, so I was a lot nosy that way. Okay, okay, so I was exceptionally, exceedingly, unstoppably nosy—to the point of obsession sometimes. I wanted to know everything about everyone around me. Why? Well, I blamed it on my magic.

    I was an Oracle with psychometry magic. A fancy way of saying that I saw images in my head and got flashes of other people’s memories and feelings off almost everything that I touched. A favorite necklace, a beloved book, a cherished photo of a family trip to the beach. I could get a vibe off anything that someone had a personal attachment or connection to, and I could see and feel exactly what that person had felt whenever she’d worn that necklace, read that book, or looked at that photo.

    I didn’t know exactly why I had magic or why I was even considered an Oracle in the first place, but I liked the power that my psychometry gave me. I liked knowing what everyone around me was really thinking, from whether a girl was truly my friend or talked about me behind my back to whether a boy was really into me or was actually thinking about another girl instead. Like Drew Squires, my one and only boyfriend. Thanks to my psychometry, I’d flashed on Drew while we were kissing and felt him pretending that I was Paige. I’d dumped him on the spot.

    Yeah, sometimes the things I saw and felt hurt, but I still loved knowing other people’s secrets. And judging from the weird look on her face, Paige was hiding something—something big.

    Paige? I asked again,

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