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Volta Academy Chronicles #2
Girl Squad Volition: Book 2 of the Volta Academy Chronicles
Magical girls, mystery, and martial arts!
After transforming for the first time, Wren starts class at Aurin Academy, a floating school where students from across the dimensions train to defend the sovereign planets of the Kiloverse from the Cosmic horrors beyond.
From learning to fly, to discovering her magical aptitude, to dealing with a trident-wielding water Volta who inexplicably wants her dead, to navigating the fraught politics of her first mission with the squad, Wren has her work cut out for her!
Girl Squad Volition is the second book in the Volta Academy Chronicles - for fans of Marissa Meyer, Rick Riordan, Sailor Moon, Winx, WITCH, and Cobra Kai.
After transforming for the first time, Wren starts class at Aurin Academy, a floating school where students from across the dimensions train to defend the sovereign planets of the Kiloverse from the Cosmic horrors beyond.
From learning to fly, to discovering her magical aptitude, to dealing with a trident-wielding water Volta who inexplicably wants her dead, to navigating the fraught politics of her first mission with the squad, Wren has her work cut out for her!
Girl Squad Volition is the second book in the Volta Academy Chronicles - for fans of Marissa Meyer, Rick Riordan, Sailor Moon, Winx, WITCH, and Cobra Kai.
- GenresFantasy
351 pages, Paperback
First published June 6, 2023
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June 8, 2024
In this continuation of Volta Chronicles series, the world expands as we get to see and learn more about the world alongside the main characters. New obstacles are set in her way and it was great to see her way of dealing with them.
I really enjoyed it, has a nice balance of resolving the plot of the current novel while continuing the plot of the series.
Curious to see what happens next.
I really enjoyed it, has a nice balance of resolving the plot of the current novel while continuing the plot of the series.
Curious to see what happens next.
September 8, 2025
4.25 ⭐️. I really enjoyed this second book in the series. It went a lot deeper than the first. We learnt a bit more about the world and the magic system and it definitely left me wanting more. I am looking forwards to reading the third book but I feel like there is no way all the cans of worms opened up in this book can be resolved in a single book so I am hopeful that there will be quite a few more books coming. Excellent YA.
February 24, 2024
Even more fun that the first one - fun in a very pink way. Love it!
7/10 stars
7/10 stars
July 30, 2024
so fun!! even better than the first one
August 4, 2025
Will forever love M.L. Wang. This is such a fun read.
December 5, 2023
Reread this one just to get ready to read book 3 and now I’m realizing that I never left a review the first time! I enjoyed this volume of the Volta Academy Chronicles even more than the first book! Loved the new characters we got to meet and also getting to see a bit of what the Volta Academy is like too. Very cool, and now I’m about to dive immediately into book 3!
July 12, 2023
Oh this is good. This is SO good! It’s not a secret that I am huge ML Wang-fan. Even though I am not the target-audience here, I really enjoyed the first book of her new Volta Academy-series (that she publishes under Maya Lin Wang). But I like this book even better (so theoretically that would be 6 out of 5 possible stars?), because it caters to the trope I love so much: Young characters learn they have some up to this point unknown powers and are part of an equally unknown world and they go to a school/academy where they learn how to wield these powers and how to navigate in their new surroundings – while having to deal with everything that comes with going to school. And Girl Squad Volition does that wonderfully.
The first book in the series, Girl Squad Volta, was set on Earth where the main character Wren finds out about her powers and has come to terms with the fact that there are quite a lot things out there in the universe that she does not know anything about. Actually, hardly anyone from Earth knows about them. She is a Volta and can transform into some kind of superhero with unique traits – her Voltform (there are also some abilities that all the Voltas seem to share).
At the beginning of this book, Wren and her new friends (and teammates) Jackie and Aya arrive at Aurin Academy – a floating school where students from across the dimensions train to master their abilities with the goal to protect the universe from danger. One of the biggest threats out there are the Xin Volta – superpowered individuals with their own agenda (think X-Men vs Brotherhood of Mutants). Wren is already overwhelmed by her newfound abilities. On top of that, she has to maneuver through the transdimensional equivalent of highschool as a transfer student – only that her classmates are not only from a different culture, but different planets. So, on top of the academy-trope there is the icing on the cake with a clash of cultural differences. Everything combined with ML Wang’s captivating writing makes for a great and very entertaining read.
The Volta Academy-series is a sapphic YA progression fantasy. But while the stats are important to Wren and her abilities, the clear focus of this series is on Wren’s character and her growing as a person.
The first book in the series, Girl Squad Volta, was set on Earth where the main character Wren finds out about her powers and has come to terms with the fact that there are quite a lot things out there in the universe that she does not know anything about. Actually, hardly anyone from Earth knows about them. She is a Volta and can transform into some kind of superhero with unique traits – her Voltform (there are also some abilities that all the Voltas seem to share).
At the beginning of this book, Wren and her new friends (and teammates) Jackie and Aya arrive at Aurin Academy – a floating school where students from across the dimensions train to master their abilities with the goal to protect the universe from danger. One of the biggest threats out there are the Xin Volta – superpowered individuals with their own agenda (think X-Men vs Brotherhood of Mutants). Wren is already overwhelmed by her newfound abilities. On top of that, she has to maneuver through the transdimensional equivalent of highschool as a transfer student – only that her classmates are not only from a different culture, but different planets. So, on top of the academy-trope there is the icing on the cake with a clash of cultural differences. Everything combined with ML Wang’s captivating writing makes for a great and very entertaining read.
The Volta Academy-series is a sapphic YA progression fantasy. But while the stats are important to Wren and her abilities, the clear focus of this series is on Wren’s character and her growing as a person.
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