i did not enjoy this book at all. i probably should have stopped after the first book when i didn't care for that one.

Do yourself a favor and read the first book in this series before you read this one. It can get very confusing. I also have more impatience with YA characters who have a very important job to do or are trying to save the world but get sidetracked by teen romance and petty concerns as if they are as important as their world saving task.

This novel is a good one that I’ve read this year! The characters are so dynamic yet relatable. I loved the flow of the story. It held my attention the whole time.

Description
Last year, Teddy Cannon discovered she was psychic. This year, her skills will be put to the test as she investigates a secretive case that will take her far from home—and deep into the past in the thrilling follow-up to School for Psychics.

My Review
The setting of this novel - The Astral Traveler's Daughter starts off in San Francisco where Teddy is reading about the recent assassination of a Ukrainian drug lord. Not one who is good at following the rules, Teddy finds herself and those she cares about in danger.

If you enjoyed reading School of Psychic, then you will enjoy reading this book. The only thing I found a bit frustrating was the back and forth. Otherwise, I highly recommend this book.

First, thank you for letting me review this book. It's a little late, but I have to say I enjoyed this series immensely.

Teddy Cannon is now an astral traveler. Out of all the psychics and their psychic powers, I think this one is definitely the coolest (although being able to communicate with animals is still up there for me).

In this installment, Teddy discovers more about her mother and her past. That guy she helped bust out of prison in Book One...Yates...well, he says he's going to help her find answers. Teddy doesn't know if she can trust him, because she does not completely understand what he wants from her. Teddy and her friends are still trying to figure out who the bad guys are. More than anything, they are still trying to figure out what their questions should be.

And she thought she was just enrolling in a law enforcement school for psychics. Little did she know there's a sinister plot to all of this that involves a terrorist group and her biological mother.

This book is jam packed with game changers. The fact that Teddy can change timelines, means that you will not be able to predict this story's ending. From the beginning, Teddy and her friends set out to get answers that may lead to finding their friend Molly. Only to discover they are just movable pieces on a chess board, never knowing who is playing this game or who they are playing against.

A great, high impact read. The ending will leave you very surprised.

I highly recommend the audiobook for both books. The narrator is excellent.

Thank you netgalley and the publisher.
I loved the first instalment of this story but fi4 th3 life of me could not get into part two.
Unfortunately, I DNF this one.
Thank you

Teddy Cannon is off to her next adventure in The Astral Traveler's Daughter, second in the School for Psychics series.

I'm not sure what this book is typically marketed as. I'd say it's older YA. I picked up the first at my library last year and liked it enough to take a chance on the second installment. It's a quick read. Pacing is good. I definitely wouldn't compare it to Harry Potter or any other great fantasy series, but I enjoyed it! I'm growing tired of Teddy's romantic ventures and the dialogue around that, but aside from that I think it's lighthearted and fun in comparison to the other things I've been picking up. I like that this doesn't take much effort or energy from me and despite the fact that I read the first book legitimately a year ago and I can barely remember much of what happened, I was able to jump back into this with little scrambling and the author does drop tidbits here and there to jog the reader's memory.


I would recommend this to anyone who can go into it with little expectations and is maybe looking for a light palate cleanser before jumping into something with a bit more substance.

I received a copy of this story from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I loved the first book and was incredibly to excited to read the sequel! While this one was also good, I didn't like it quite as much as the first one. There were times when I was pleasantly surprised by the plot twist and then there were times when I wondered how Teddy and her friends didn't make the connection. I was also annoyed with Teddy's do-I-like-Pyro or do-I-like-this-other-guy back and forth; it disconnected me from the story a bit.

I liked the direction it was going, for the most part. I wish we saw more of Teddy and her friends working together. I felt like Teddy went a bit rogue and I wanted to see all the students working together, growing and honing their powers. It felt like it was missing that camaraderie .

I'd still recommend this book to everyone. It's a solid sequel and I really need the next book to come out. I want to know what happens next!

This feels and reads like a typical middle or second book to a series. Nothing really happens; except that our lead gal learns more about her magical powers and time trudges on.

Cliche
I'm not necessarily opposed to cliche moments or writing; after all that is how we got genres. That said there is only so much that I can take and in the introduction to Astral Traveler's Daughter there is an overdose of cliche comments that K.C. Archer has written in. Luckily it gets better.
Again there's nothing special about this series; but it's a decent read. It's neither the best, nor the worst.

Astral Travel
It always amuses me (and slightly frustrates me) when a leading character is given HUGE amounts of warning about something (in this case astral travel) and then immediately goes and does it. Archer has made this silly moment even worse by having the person who is helping our gal get into the astral realm give the speech of warning and then say to her "ready?" Um... why would she say yes now? It's ridiculous and bugs me. At least make the person who gives the warning NOT the same person that leads her into temptation (if you will).

Defense of Friends
There is one theme that is really well done in Astral Traveler's Daughter and that is the immediate instinct we all have to defend both our friends and family. It's as though none of us want to believe that we could be friends or related to someone that is 'evil' or just does awful things. I liked the treatment Archer used to show the disbelief (even in light of a mountain of evidence) that strikes our leading lady. While it (of course) doesn't necessarily add up as expected (because what book with a mystery does); it also doesn't turn entirely innocent either.
It's a good reminder that we must all step back sometimes and consider the facts and evidence of a situation (regardless of whom is the accused) instead of acting on instinct. This goes both ways of course. It's an excellent reminder not be too hasty to condemn (Professor Snape anyone?); but also think before defending too fervently.

Overall
I didn't expect much from this second book and so my expectations were more or less met. I hope that the third book is stronger and can bring in some better plot points. While astral travel is interesting and all it makes many things much too convenient in the end. And I hate convenient only-happened-because-of-magic endings. I also did have the ending pegged somewhat early on (around page 150 of 300); but again wasn't really expecting to be surprised and so the fact that I wasn't isn't a let down so much as a nod at Archer providing us with a solidly written cliche fantasy story.

Please note: I received an eARC of this book from the publisher via NetGalley. This is an honest and unbiased review.

This is the second book in the "School for Psychics" series. There is some background information given at the beginning of the book but may be tough if you haven't read the first in the series. It was a good middle book in a series and I would give the book 3 stars.

I received this book from NetGalley through the courtesy of Simon and Schuster. The book was provided to me in exchange for an honest review.

This is the second book of Teddy’s aventures. This book provides us the answers to the unsolved mysteries of Teddy’s past with a twist of pure adrenaline. I can wait to read book #3.

#NetGalley #Teddy #AstralTraveller

I absolutely loved School for Physics; I couldn't put it down and needed to know what happened.

This, on the other hand, I have tried picking up multiple times and just can't finish it. Maybe the characters are too typical and nothing seems new? Or this is just the type of book that one is great and all you need.

Maybe I'll pick it up later, but sometimes you just need to call it quits.

The 2nd book in the school for psychics series, I havent read the first book in the series which left me a little confused on some events though I did find the story interesting and will seek out the first one to read

Many thanks to NetGalley, Simon & Schuster and K.C. Archer for an ARC in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are 100% my own and independent of receiving an advance copy.

This sequel picks up right where the first book left off. Teddy and her friends are beginning their second year at the Whitfield Institute for psychics. This year they are learning how to use their unique abilities to intuit events from an inanimate object. Teddy was secretly given her mother’s necklace from Yates, whom she doesn’t trust. In Teddy’s private lessons, Clint has been teaching her to astral plane which allows her to leave her body and observe things that have happened in the past. Teddy is still plagued by not knowing whether or not her mother set off a bomb in New York City many years ago. She just can’t believe that her mother was a willing participant in the vigilante group the Patriot Corps. Her best friend Jillian has fallen in love with a cargo-shorts wearing boy who Teddy can’t stand. Jillian has been taking all kinds of risks for her new boyfriend and his animal rights activism. Things have been heating up between Teddy and Pyro and not just because he controls fire! She has been put on special assignment to protect Miles Whitfield, the grandson of Hollis Whitfield. While astral planing she discovers that Whitfield has been developing a drug to control psychics. Is the school just a front? Who, from the school is involved? What move will the Patriot Corps try next? How is this related to her mother and Sector 3? Teddy is hiding way too many secrets from everyone and if she isn’t careful, she will be putting everything on the line to get the answers she needs.

First off, I think that if you haven’t read the first one in this series, you might have a hard time with this one. I read the first one a while ago and even I had a hard time getting into it, because I couldn’t remember all the details from the first book. There are a number of different stories going on this time around, but Archer does a great job of connecting them all together. I never felt lost or overwhelmed. Nick is out of the picture and there is a small romance with Pyro, but I thought that more could have been done with that storyline. Okay, I need the romance. It keeps things spicy! The friend group is really fractured this time, so I didn’t feel the camaraderie the same way as in the first book. That detracted a bit for me. I really like all the psychic stuff and what they were learning in school. Less time could have been spent on their summer and more focus on the school would have made it more interesting for me. I wasn’t ready to give that part up just yet. I really liked the addition of the new character Miles and that storyline. I’m not sure how much character development happened in this book, compared to the first.

I loved the first book. I really liked the second book. Looking forward to seeing what happens in the next one in the series!

Following the School for Psychics, here Teddy Cannon is still studying at Whitfield Institute to enhance her psychic abilities for use in law enforcement and in the search for the underground terrorist organization, the Patriot Corps. She is forced to travel to the past in her search for understanding of the role her birth mother played in a Patriot Corps bombing and the current plans to harness psychics to their plot. Page turning and fun!

Thankyou to NetGalley, Simon and Schuster, and the author, K.C Archer, for the opportunity to read a digital copy of The Astral Traveler's Daughter in exchange for an honest and unbiased opinion.
I thought this book provided a good quick read. The storyline was imaginative and well written.
Worth a read.

In this continuation of «School for Psychics» series, Teddy, Dora, Janine and Pyro go back to Whitfield Institute for their 2nd year. This time, their return is shadowed by the suspicious disappearance of their friend, and betrayal of someone they trusted.

The second year also requires more from Whitfield students. Soon, they will need to be sorted to various military forces or secret agencies, and it's up to them to perform to their highest standards.
Concerned about her friend, her parents, and suspicious activity of Whitfield superiors, Teddy and her crew end up in the middle of the mysterious events that might solve their problem, or make an even bigger mess!

School for Psychics would make an interesting TV show! It has all elements that make TV shows so addicting: school setting, stubborn characters, crime, mystery, and psychics abilities to help them solve old cases.

An investigation into a secret corps of psychic vigilantes

Following the betrayal of one classmate and the disappearance of another, Teddy Cannon is determined to get to the truth. A psychically gifted student at the Whitfield Institute for Law Enforcement Training and Development (which secretly trains psychics), she spends her summer vacation searching for clues to track the group responsible, the Patriot Corps, a group of renegade psychics. When a pendant once belonging to her mother comes into her possession, she and her friends are led to a base in the remote Nevada desert. There, the mystery surrounding the Patriot Corps and what happened to her parents takes a new turn.

Returning to the Whitfield Institute for her second year, Teddy struggles with her new power of astral travel through time, attempting to use it to her advantage in her ongoing investigation into the Patriot Corps and her mother’s involvement with the group. Meanwhile, shady conspiratorial forces at Whitfield, the drugs company Hyle Pharmaceuticals, an animal rights protest group, and the Patriot Corps itself all hone in on Teddy as she gets closer to the truth. With her circumstances becoming ever more dangerous, who can she really trust?

The Astral Traveler’s Daughter is a solid thriller, with the added soupçon of graduate students with supernatural abilities – telekinesis, telepathy, pyrokinesis, precognition, astral projection – for good measure. As the second in a series, an opening summary makes it unnecessary to have read the first book to follow with ease the action and characters of this one. It has to be said that the mystery at the centre of the story feels somewhat generic: the government/corporation/secret organisation/lost parent conspiracy is similar to many things that have been done before, but it is plotted with skill and delivers a good twist at the end leading effectively into the next book.

Another issue is that the heroine, Teddy Cannon, is not especially sympathetic. While it’s absolutely not necessary for a protagonist to be “good” (in fact, flawed heroes are always the most interesting ones), Teddy too often comes across as selfish, self-absorbed, and – for someone supposed to be psychic – distinctly lacking in empathy for those around her. Towards the end of the book, she makes a terrible (and avoidable) mistake by abrogating her responsibility to pursue her own interest, which, unfortunately, is entirely in character, but ends in potential tragedy for others. Only after this does she show a glimmer of self-awareness and remorse – but, even then, it's only because of guilt. Hopefully, in the next novel, Teddy will learn from the experiences in this one and take others' feelings and needs into account as well as her own.

Arwen Evenstar

Breakaway Reviewers received a copy of the book to review

A very solid second installment in what is turning out to be a consistently smart, enjoyable series.

Though the character development remains one dimensional and the dialogue is often clunky, the plot is sharp, propulsive, and strikes a good balance between action and sleuthing. Despite the psychic elements, the series still feels more like a YA mystery than a YA fantasy, which is a good thing.

My only real gripe with this remains the title of the series. This is a nuanced, complex story with a creative premise... and "School for Psychics" is the best title you could come up with? It just sounds so juvenile and insipid. I imagine it puts off a lot of readers who see that and think this must be a far poorer quality series than it actually is.

Yes, I know, it literally is about a school for psychics. But we don't call Harry Potter the School for Wizards series, do we? I just feel like the dopey series title has cost an excellent story a lot of potential readers. That aside, I greatly look forward to the next installment in the series.

The Astral Traveler's Daughter
(School for Psychics #2)
by K.C. Archer

Paperback, 336 pages
Published April 2nd 2019 by Simon & Schuster



Goodreads synopsis:
Last year, Teddy Cannon discovered she was psychic. This year, her skills will be put to the test as she investigates a secretive case that will take her far from home—and deep into the pastin the thrilling follow-up to School for Psychics.

With trepidation, Teddy enters her second year at The Whitfield Institute, a facility hidden off the coast of San Francisco where students master telepathy and telekinesis, investigative techniques and SWAT tactics for covert roles in government service. She has been obsessively tracking the movements of the Patriot Corps, a secret organization that seems to be behind a string of crimes on US soil—including the disappearance of her friend, Molly. She is not sure who she can trust with her findings: her friends think she is crazy and her teachers insist she focus on her schoolwork.

Teddy tries to do what she is told. She tries to forget about her missing friend, her long lost birth parents, her rivalry with other students, even her forbidden romance with an instructor. She learns to be a meat shield: a Secret Service operative trained to protect whatever dummy they throw her way. She learns to disarm explosive devices. She also learn to transport herself through time, as she begins to grasp astral travel (that is, if she doesn’t get lost in the time-space continuum). But Teddy has never been good at following the rules. So when an unexpected assignment leads her to the answers she’s chased for so long, and reveal a clue about her own past, she takes a risk that puts everyone else she cares about in danger.

The next book in the series that Kirkus Reviews called “Harry Potter with a cast of millennials,” K.C. Archer’s The Astral Traveler's Daughter is a heart-racing novel set in a world very much like our own—but there is more to this place than meets the eye. 


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5 Stars

Before I started this book I had heard it was being compared to Harry Potter. Yes, there is what feels like magic but is instead students learning how to use all their different psychic powers. This felt more like real life X-Men than Harry Potter.

Students are discovering more uses for their powers and finding out how they could grow them to assist in the future when they worked for the FBI, Secret Service or Police Force.

There is a lot in this beyond the whole “school for psychics” thing. We follow a girl who has a lot of problems but is also quite capable of overcoming what others think isn’t possible for her. A missing girl from a previous book sort of plays into the storyline but I think this is more about how Teddy finds ways to work together with her friends as she expands her astral traveling and other powers, finds her mom, and realizes she can travel back in time and change things.

This would work great as a movie with special effects. I can totally see it on the big screen. Not just for teens. Anyone can enjoy this.

I received this as an ARC (Advanced Reader Copy) in return for an honest review. I thank NetGalley, the publisher and the author for allowing me to read this title.