The Aeonveil Chronicles · Book One
She sees what others feel. What she cannot yet see is how much that will cost her.
A five-book epic fantasy series set in the world of Elyndar — a continent of elemental realms under a fragile, Victorian-era order — beginning in the winter of 1878.
The wind has always spoken. She is only just beginning to hear it.
Vivienne Arquette has always been the student who understood the theory and failed the practical — seven years at Aetheris Academy, Aestas' premier institution for windweaving, and she has scraped through on precision and stubbornness alone. In her final year, something changes. She begins seeing colors that don't belong to anyone in the room — crimson bleeding off a classmate's shoulders, indigo coiling where someone chooses silence over honesty. She tells no one. People who claim to see things that aren't there don't graduate from Aetheris. They get sent home. Vivienne has to decide how to finish her final year with a secret she doesn't yet know how to use, in a realm where the winds themselves have begun to demolish everything in its path.
"The question you should carry out of this room is not who was right. It is who decided what was worth remembering. And what was not."From the manuscript
"I picked this up because someone in my romantasy group called it 'slow burn done right' and I was skeptical. It is slow burn done right. Vivienne is the kind of protagonist who's easy to underestimate — she's not failing because she's weak, she's failing because she can see things no one around her has a framework for yet, and that distinction matters enormously to how the whole book lands. The Hues system is genuinely original. The ending wrecked me. Starting Book Two immediately."
"The writing is atmospheric and the magic is unlike anything I've read in this genre — I loved the idea of seeing emotion as color in the air. But I'll be honest: I spent the first third waiting for the plot to arrive. Once it does, it's worth it, and the final arc moves fast enough that I stayed up past midnight. I think readers who like character-led fantasy will love this more than I did. I'm plot-driven and this is very much a book about what it costs to know something you can't yet prove. That's not a flaw, it's just not quite my taste. I'll probably read the next one."
"The thing that got me is that this is a book about a woman who's spent seven years being quietly dismissed, and the story never asks you to feel sorry for her about it — it just shows you what she sees and lets you come to your own conclusions. Caiden is frustrating in exactly the right way. The political undercurrent is more interesting than the synopsis suggests. My only gripe is that a few of the middle chapters drag before the Zephyr Rite sequence, which is extraordinary. Would recommend to anyone who liked the quieter, world-building-heavy first books of longer series."
Prism of the Wind is looking for its first readers — those who want to experience the world of Aetheris Academy before anyone else does. As an ARC reader, you'll receive a free advance copy of the book in exchange for an honest review posted on release day. If you love dark academia, epic fantasy, and stories that don't give you easy answers, this one was written for you.
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