Skip to content
  • Home
  • Reading, Writing and Posting
  • Ted Bun’s Books
  • Naturist Fiction
  • Tell me what you thought
  • Legal Matters

The Ted Bun Book Shop

Reading is for fun

  • Home
    • Meet Ted Bun
  • Reading, Writing and Posting
  • Ted Bun’s Books
    • The Rags to Riches Series
      • The Uncovered Policeman
        • Excerpt from The Uncovered Policeman 
      • The Uncovered Policeman Abroad – the 2nd Rags to Riches Story.
      • The Uncovered Policeman: In and Out of the Blues
      • The Uncovered Policeman: Goodbye Blues
      • Two Weddings and a Naming
      • The Uncovered Policeman: Caribbean Blues
      • The Uncovered Policeman: Family Album
      • A Spring Break at L’Abeille Nue
      • The Uncovered Policeman: Made for TV
      • The Uncovered Policeman: THE LONG ROAD
      • LIVE, LOVE and LAUGH
      • A new home in the sun
      • While Bees Sleep
    • Crooke and Loch
      • The Summer of ’71
      • Runners and Riders
      • Summer of 76
      • A Line of Death
    • NEW HOUSE
      • New House … New Neighbours
      • New House … New Address
      • New House … New Traditions
    • NBL Solutions
      • Problems and passions
      • Problems of Succession
      • Problems in the Pyrenees
      • Problems With Planning
    • TAKING THE PLUNGE
    • Music, the Food of Love
      • When the Music Stops: DC al Fin
      • Then Play On
      • 24 Bar Rest
    • Stand-Alone books
      • Ruth … And Jack
      • After The Event
      • The Last Day of June
      • One Storm Too Many
      • The Grind; A Tabloid Tale
      • The Return of the Less Famous Five
      • The Girl with a Ginger Cat
      • The Day Before Last
      • Boy on a Baker’s Bike
      • Paul Mount is Special Squirrel
      • The Meadow Whispers
      • A Breaking Wave
    • Short Stories
      • Blindman, Buff
      • D-Day for Ruth
      • Flat Bares
      • Melissa; More or Less
      • Grandma’s Photo
      • New Laws
      • The Dancer
      • A Job in the City
      • Going South – Forever
      • The Cutter’s Tale
      • The Naked Warriors
      • The Girls trip to the Beach
      • Forty Shades of Green
      • BareAid
  • Naturist Fiction
  • Tell me what you thought
  • Legal Matters
  • Toggle search form

Another Complete Series Read

Posted on 16/09/2017 By Ted Bun

I have read my way through another series the four books that make up the Hidden Academy series.  Overall the Hidden Academy stories start off very bright and action packed page turners. However over the series they become harder to read and ultimately less rewarding as I went on.

The Hidden Academy
by Jon Rosenberg

The Series start brightly as we meet troubled Guardian, David Ash trying to deal with a manifestation of a Unicorn. A Guardian? A member of the Hidden Academy, a trained Summoner {Magician of sorts) who is responsible for protecting the public from dangerous intrusions of magic creatures from other realities. David has help from a thousand year old Welsh dwarf, Llew. The story gets deeper from there as the cast grows. But who is the love interest … Jenny the American Summoner? Alanza, the tempestuous neice of a Spanish Summoner? or maybe Titania the Fairy Queen and wife of Oberon?

The Cast of characters gets bigger with the addition of Techie dwarves the Svartalfar and an AI entity Alpha. There is more trouble from Puck and Oberon. As David, Llew and Jenny (plus a little help from Titania) do battle with a mythical Wolf . Does AI Dream of Digital Wolves?

The Series starts  getting rather samey, with fewer active members of the Academy involved, the same type of action scenes …. as David Ash heads into Hell to do battle with assorted deities and demons.

A struggle if you are less than up on mythology.

Romans, roman gods and David Ash …. most of the development in the story is internal discussion set in Ash’s head and the head of Queen Titania of the Fey. I found it a slow read with a very disappointing ending. If it was a country house murder mystery, you’d be crying foul!

Books read, Uncategorized Tags:Fantasy, Hidden Academy, Magic, Unicorn

Post navigation

Previous Post: Reading in August
Next Post: Autumn Reads

Reviews & News

  • Taking The Plunge
  • The Naturist Fiction Collaborative New Project
  • Added Value
  • NaturistFiction. Org
  • Must We Grow Up?

Ted Bun on Amazon

Archives

  • February 2025
  • December 2024
  • November 2024
  • August 2024
  • May 2024
  • February 2024
  • January 2024
  • December 2023
  • November 2023
  • October 2023
  • September 2023
  • May 2023
  • January 2023
  • December 2022
  • November 2022
  • September 2022
  • June 2022
  • May 2022
  • April 2022
  • October 2021
  • July 2021
  • May 2021
  • February 2021
  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • August 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • September 2017
  • August 2017
  • June 2017
  • April 2017
  • March 2017
  • January 2017
  • November 2016
  • October 2016
  • September 2016
  • August 2016
  • July 2016
  • June 2016
  • May 2016
  • April 2016
  • March 2016
  • February 2016

Categories

  • Books read
  • News
  • Opinion
  • Short Fiction
  • Uncategorized

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org

Copyright © 2025 The Ted Bun Book Shop.

Powered by PressBook WordPress theme