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Aether's Guard

Aether's Revival, Book 2

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Gregory’s life changed when his aether sparked to life during the Age Day ritual. He left his old friends and his old life behind, and was taken to the Magi Academy to start training to serve the Vela Empire. Suddenly alone and out of place, he prepared for the worst.

When the beautiful novice, Yukiko Warlin, asked if they could be friends, his life changed again. After six months of duplicity from the people who they had thought of as friends, Gregory and Yukiko isolated themselves from all the other novices.

Gregory chose a path considered impossible for his training, and Yukiko followed, pushing each other to strive ever harder. When Yukiko’s betrothal was annulled, the two friends were free to express the deeper feelings that had developed between them.

The first tournament for the novices was brutal on the two young lovers. Both of them were pushed to the absolute limit, but they endured. When they took the top two spots, their fellow novices dropped the pretense of friendship, when neither would bow to the machinations of their peers.

Now, the rest of their first year stands before them. It’s become clear that they should join a clan, but where can they find one that would treat them both fairly and equally?

©2020 Daniel James Schinhofen (P)2022 Daniel James Schinhofen Epic Epic Fantasy Fantasy Fiction Paranormal Progression Fantasy
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I loved this book. Andrea Parsneau does an amazing job of bringing the story and characters to life. Really looking forward to the 3rd book now.

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Great books great author this author does top class story’s his characters are great and this series is just another great addition

Best author

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loved it keep them coming Daniel and the narration is exceptional. I love the many character voices & especially bloopers.

another great audible from Daniel

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After really enjoying book 1, I was hoping to see the plot really ramp up, and deliver a thump; unfortunately, this book turned out to be a real dud. I normally love Andrea Parsneau's narration, but these actors' voices just don't work for me. The MC sounds like a 12-year-old, and Yuki sounds like a native Japanese speaker speaking English. Since Japanese is never mentioned, why does she have an oriental accent, which in itself isn't the problem, as much as the slow speech. The dialogue is cringeworthy for the most part, as it's just immature kids declaring their love for each other in the most soppy way possible, and also taking every opportunity to thank everyone for absolutely everything. Even at 1.4x narration speed, the dialogue never seems to have any kind of pulse.

If you've read the first book, you can probably skip this altogether, as nothing interesting happens. The main characters' lives are boring and repetitive, and the book portrays them as such. Why are we being punished here? I had to drop the Audible version and switch back to the Kindle version, where I could easily just skim through all the nonsense, and there was a lot of it.

As expected, the story ends predictably (and terribly). There is no suspense, zero mystery, no power boosts, no moments of epiphany; it is boring and dull in its entirety.



Oh dear... this is so bad.

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In general a good story and well written.
The downside is all the overwhelming pathetic love parts… MC tries to get everything perfect but can’t do it and needs consoling 24/7.
All the magic stuff, fights and so on are quite good.

Great Story…. But

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