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Elements of Ether
Grimoires and ethereal weapons bring them together. Rules might tear them apart.
[Elements of Ether is a prequel novella and includes a sneak peek at chapter one of Kingdoms of Ether (Book 1)!]
Emeryss is a rare Scribe, and she's been sent to Stadhold to learn how to make grimoires. But four years is long enough, and she's eager to be assigned her guard and protector so that she can take a promised trip home to see her family. Except no one's particularly thrilled about being assigned to a Neerian woman who worships the Goddess of death.
Grier is a soldier eager to be selected as one of four Scribe Keepers. Doing so means he can advance and lead his country to greatness one day. But the trials to become one prove more difficult than he anticipated, and it seems he's inexplicably fated to connect with the Neerian Scribe.
Emeryss doesn't give up easily, and Grier's been training his whole life for this moment, but neither of them can make it through the trials alone. They must trust the ether or lose everything they've worked toward.
(Note: Kingdoms of Ether is an adult romantic fantasy series. This means the series contains adult language, violence, alcohol use, and sexual relationships.)
-from Bookfunnel
[Elements of Ether is a prequel novella and includes a sneak peek at chapter one of Kingdoms of Ether (Book 1)!]
Emeryss is a rare Scribe, and she's been sent to Stadhold to learn how to make grimoires. But four years is long enough, and she's eager to be assigned her guard and protector so that she can take a promised trip home to see her family. Except no one's particularly thrilled about being assigned to a Neerian woman who worships the Goddess of death.
Grier is a soldier eager to be selected as one of four Scribe Keepers. Doing so means he can advance and lead his country to greatness one day. But the trials to become one prove more difficult than he anticipated, and it seems he's inexplicably fated to connect with the Neerian Scribe.
Emeryss doesn't give up easily, and Grier's been training his whole life for this moment, but neither of them can make it through the trials alone. They must trust the ether or lose everything they've worked toward.
(Note: Kingdoms of Ether is an adult romantic fantasy series. This means the series contains adult language, violence, alcohol use, and sexual relationships.)
-from Bookfunnel
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September 19, 2020
Emryss was discovered as being an ether scribe and taken from her home in Neeria all the way to the Great Library at the kingdom capital. Scribes are highly important to the kingdom because they can commune with the cosmos and write down the lines given to them, creating spells on paper in grimoires imbued with ether that the casters can use against their enemies, and right now the kingdom is at war. And with scribes being so important, they have Keepers assigned to them to protect them. Grier comes from a long line of Keepers, and feels he needs to be with Emryss, which means passing a series of tests challenging him to keep Emryss protected, while she feels stifled with everyone insisting that she be just a scribe and not help to protect herself in any way and kept a prisoner at the library with the kingdom so desperate for more grimoires. But Keepers and Scribes aren’t allowed to be together, as anything more than scribe and keeper. So, Grier needs to keep his feelings for Emryss in check and hidden since they can’t be anything more than friends while he is her keeper.
I had already read the sample for the first book in the series and adored it and picked up both it and the second book in the series, but I haven’t had a chance to crack them open yet. This just solidified that I need to read my way through them ASAP. I adored this introduction! I loved seeing the first meeting of Emryss and Grier and how he becomes her keeper and the challenges he had to face getting there. I loved Emryss who everyone keeps belittling, though she’s talented beyond all the other scribes and they are keeping it secret just how scary her talent is. I loved that she speaks her mind, and she wants to help protect herself and thinks a lot of their rules are silly, like having to keep her hands covered at all times. And I feel for her, not being allowed to go home because they refuse to admit it to her that they need her there and just keep denying her with the logic that they are in charge, not her. And I liked Grier. I liked his stoic determination, and his second-guessing himself and self-doubt and what he could have done better. I loved that he was able to see Emryss rather than being prejudiced like the others. And I loved him being in love with her. I really hope that love gets carried through the series, and that he doesn’t just bury it into the bounds of friendship and it vanishes just to tempt me to read with an in vain hope. The tests are fun to see, showing just how formidable Grier is and how fallible he is, even though he’s top in his class and can use a selection of different weapons. And I loved seeing Emryss stand up to the instructors. Even the world built here is a complicated one with politics and strict rules on what one can and can’t do with the ether, and professions built around the ether, and yet it isn’t too overly complicated detracting from the actual story. Readers should definitely pick up this short!
I had already read the sample for the first book in the series and adored it and picked up both it and the second book in the series, but I haven’t had a chance to crack them open yet. This just solidified that I need to read my way through them ASAP. I adored this introduction! I loved seeing the first meeting of Emryss and Grier and how he becomes her keeper and the challenges he had to face getting there. I loved Emryss who everyone keeps belittling, though she’s talented beyond all the other scribes and they are keeping it secret just how scary her talent is. I loved that she speaks her mind, and she wants to help protect herself and thinks a lot of their rules are silly, like having to keep her hands covered at all times. And I feel for her, not being allowed to go home because they refuse to admit it to her that they need her there and just keep denying her with the logic that they are in charge, not her. And I liked Grier. I liked his stoic determination, and his second-guessing himself and self-doubt and what he could have done better. I loved that he was able to see Emryss rather than being prejudiced like the others. And I loved him being in love with her. I really hope that love gets carried through the series, and that he doesn’t just bury it into the bounds of friendship and it vanishes just to tempt me to read with an in vain hope. The tests are fun to see, showing just how formidable Grier is and how fallible he is, even though he’s top in his class and can use a selection of different weapons. And I loved seeing Emryss stand up to the instructors. Even the world built here is a complicated one with politics and strict rules on what one can and can’t do with the ether, and professions built around the ether, and yet it isn’t too overly complicated detracting from the actual story. Readers should definitely pick up this short!
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