Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for The Art of Exile by Andrea Max. This tour is being hosted by TBR and Beyond Tours.
The Art of Exile by Andrea Max
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
Publishing Date: May 13, 2025
Legendborn meets The Da Vinci Code in this captivating light academia contemporary fantasy following a teen who infiltrates a secret school for the descendants of exiled Renaissance masters to steal their long-lost arts and sciences.
Unlike the high-achieving members of her family’s secret society, Ada Castle has mastered nothing but the art of falling for the wrong guys. But now she finally has the chance to prove her worth: she just needs to gain access to a hidden school that her family has been trying to locate for generations. Granted, she accidentally goes on a date with the recruiter first, then is temporarily abducted, but Ada manages to secure herself an invitation to the Genesis Institute, where descendants of exiled Renaissance masters practice long-lost arts and sciences.
The school is a utopia of sustainable technology, medical advancements, and myths come to life, yet they are unjustly hoarding their resources. Ada goes undercover to steal their innovations for the rest of the world, but Genesis nurtures her creativity and challenges her views, and she can’t help but fall for the school…and maybe also for her frustratingly off-limits recruiter-turned-mentor.
Ada’s tangle of lies starts to unravel when one of her new friends goes missing. To rescue her, Ada is forced to work with a dangerous (and dangerously hot) classmate whose suspicions threaten her cover. And when the information she’s shared with her family puts her missing friend and all of Genesis in peril, she’ll have to choose whom to betray: the family she loves or the school that has helped her find herself.
Content Warning: someone is drugged
Book Links:
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/196958109
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Art-Exile-Andrea-Max-ebook/dp/B0DJ33WVQ6/
Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-art-of-exile-andrea-max/1146384132 IndieBound: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-art-of-exile-andrea-max/ca85b5ba41c253f7
Andrea has an MSW from New York University and is a high school English teacher. She lives with her husband and son in New Jersey where she starts a lot of art she’ll never finish.
Author Links:
Website: https://www.andrea-max.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andreatothemax/
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/43439319
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