School for Psychics
Book One
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4.4 • 81 Ratings
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Publisher Description
An entrancing new series starring a funny, impulsive, and sometimes self-congratulatory young woman who discovers she has psychic abilities—and then must decide whether she will use her skills for good or…not.
Teddy Cannon isn’t your typical twenty-something woman. Yes she’s resourceful, bright, and scrappy. But she can also read people with uncanny precision. What she doesn’t realize: she’s actually psychic.
When a series of bad decisions leads Teddy to a run-in with the police, a mysterious stranger intervenes. He invites her to apply to the School for Psychics, a facility hidden off the coast of San Francisco where students are trained like Delta Force operatives: it’s competitive, cutthroat, and highly secretive. They’ll learn telepathy, telekinesis, investigative skills, and SWAT tactics. And if students survive their training, they go on to serve at the highest levels of government, using their skills to protect America, and the world.
In class, Teddy befriends Lucas, a rebel without a cause who can start and manipulate fire; Jillian, a hipster who can mediate communication between animals and humans; and Molly, a hacker who can apprehend the emotional state of another individual. But just as Teddy feels like she’s found where she might belong, strange things begin to happen: break-ins, missing students, and more. It leads Teddy to accept a dangerous mission that will ultimately cause her to question everything—her teachers, her friends, her family, and even herself.
Set in a world very much like our own, School for Psychics is the first book in a stay-up-all night series.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
The first book in K.C. Archer’s series introduces us to The Whitfield Institute, a 21st-century Hogwarts that stealthily enlists millennial mentalists for covert roles in government service. School for Psychics rises to this inspired conceit, with an ingeniously imagined cast of paranormal misfits including a pyrokinetic ex-cop, a patchouli-burning animal medium, and a telepathic card shark who’s also the novel’s strong-willed antiheroine. A jaunty romp of deep-state conspiracy, procedural crime drama, and campus intrigue, Archer’s novel is the zeitgeisty pageturner our post-truth era needs.
Customer Reviews
Fun twist on paranormal fiction
Grown up Harry Potter fans, rejoice. Here is a novel that includes all of the quirkiness and entertaining features of Harry Potter, in a much darker and adult setting. While Harry Potter contained a school for witches and wizards, the Whitfield Institute is a school for those that excel in more extra-sensory skills, such as mind-reading and telekinesis. The School for Psychics takes a fascinating look at abilities that are still beyond most people’s everyday lives. A world that most of us can’t even imagine being a part of.
We meet Teddy in Las Vegas, where she has gambled herself into a corner. She’s an epileptic with the ability to read people. She has bounced around through school and jobs. Teddy is a lost soul. She is drifting with no real ambition or direction. Living in her adoptive parents garage and in trouble with a Russian mob loan shark, there really isn’t anywhere for her to go when The Whitfield Institute for Law Enforcement Training and Development is thrown on her table.
Teddy is a protagonist to be liked. She may not always make the best decisions, but she is relatable, funny, and spunky. K.C. Archer does a great job of making Teddy a three dimensional character with real faults and attributes. You want to root for Teddy. You hope for Teddy to succeed. You groan when Teddy fails or again falls into old behavior patterns. It’s always important for me to be able to connect on some level with the main character in a book. To have something about her be identifiable to me. K.C. Archer accomplishes that with Teddy. In fact, most of the characters in this novel are well written and intriguing. Teddy’s roommate Jillian, who can communicate with animals, is endearing and funny. Molly, an empath, is rather tragic and weak.
K.C. Archer’s story weaves and twists and turns leaving me unable to wait to turn the page. I sped through this book wondering what was going to come next. The Whitfield Institute is both mysterious and unusual. The setting of San Francisco’s Angel Island is the perfect location for a book about a supernatural school with supernatural students. I dare anyone who enjoys paranormal fiction to be able to put this book down.
Books in serial format tend to be some of my favorites, as I enjoy connecting with the characters. Knowing that the last page of the book doesn’t mean that I’ll never see them again. I will anxiously await the next book in this series. Truly wondering what is next for Teddy and her band of Misfits. (So please, K.C. Archer, don’t be teasing with that “book one” thing.)
Don’t read this book if you’re looking for a book based in reality. While there may very well be psychics and empaths and clairvoyants among us, and even a school for them, it’s unlikely that you’ll find one on every corner. For me escapism is the best part of reading, and this is clearly a work of fiction. Or is it?
School for psychics
Great book, keeps you reading more. Guess I have to find the next book and see what happens next!
School for Psychics
The plot is a Hydra with so many lethal heads trying to protect some heads while other heads try to behead them. They are all connected, but not by sharing a physical body, but a strictly quantum astral-psychic body that is not restrained by time-space continuum theory. A gender liberated mystery that doesn't use skin color, country of origin, accent, or sexual games to create a thrilling tale of trying to teach strange young people to harness their powers, add to them, make them incapable of death by injury and easily healed so that they can keep everyone on Earth safe and free. And no weapons are necessary.
Needless to say there are 2000 more books planned and will be written by a new App from Apple called iPublish, upgradeable to iPublish Bestsellers and comes with 15% of net profits. Apple gets 99% of gross profits and the kid who created the App has been arrested for sexual perversion with an Apple employee's 12 year old son who will be slow to heal from the abuse. And all health costs come out of the kid's percentage of the Apps' profits. This juvenile psycho is under mansion arrest somewhere in Silicon Valley with only an Apple computer prototype and 1.34 billion dollars to his name or rather Prisoner Code Number.