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Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult, Indie
Pages: 377
Point of View: Third Person (Vhalla)
Released: August 27th 2015
Series: Air Awakens 1
Predictability: 4 out of 5 (Where 1 is totally unpredictable and 5 is I knew what was going to happen way ahead of time.)
Source: Gift from the lovely Shannon
My Rating: 10/10 Stars
Errors: I only noticed one!
My Summary:
A library apprentice discovers she processes magic. The kingdom is in dire need of magical people right now, because they’re in the middle of a war.
My Review:
I could easily relate to Vhalla. It might be that she’s as obsessed with books as I am! She’s also a genuinely nice person, but a bit of a people pleaser. I enjoyed watching her evolve over the course of the book.
When Vhalla discovers she has magic she does everything she can to deny and run from it. I understand why she’d be hesitant to leave her old life. She also doesn’t know if she can trust those in the tower or know how her old friends would treat her if they learn she has magic. It was nice seeing her ordinary world in the library and the rich magical world of the tower.
The world building was your fairly standard midieval world, but she really brought it to life. I also liked that our heroine’s kingdom wasn’t the one being attacked for once. They were the conquerors! The magic system might seem like your normal elementals, but the way she learned to use her powers and what she could do with them were wholly unique.
Romance plays a large part in this book, but I loved every bit of it! She started out pretty much hating him and gradually realized she had feelings for him. I felt the same way! I thought he was a jerk at first and hoped he wouldn’t be the love interest. But he won me over! He wasn’t a necessarily good guy, but he was smart, complex, and he really did care about her. In the end he was the best part of the book! (I was afraid of a love triangle, but she didn’t feel the same way about him, so it doesn’t count.)
Warning: the end is really intense! I lost some sleep on this one, because I just had to know what happens!
The story wrapped up satisfactorily and I can’t wait to find out what happens next! (But I’m being a good girl and reading books I already own.)
No bad for this one!
What books did you ask for for Christmas?
I asked for Magnus Chase, Six of Crows, and Winter!
Woven Magic Books 
YESSSS! This makes me so happy! And the world building gets even better in the next book- that was my only qualm with this book, but when I tell you that Fire Falling blew me away… just wow. And I am with you- I totally connected with Vhalla. She was just my kind of heroine. Because she seemed realistic, IMO.
I asked for ALL the books, as usual. Even though ummm I am pretty sure I already have them 😉 I hope Santa brings you your wishlist!! 😀
Yay! I’m glad. I did want more world building, so that’s good to hear. Maybe I should’ve rated this a 9 so I could rate the next one higher. I want it so badly now!! I hate being good.
Thanks! I hope you get all the books you want too! You can never have enough books!
I’ve seen some great reviews for this so far, so happy you loved it!
Thanks! It deserves all of the praise it gets! I think you’d like it!
This book came out of nowhere and it sounds delicious! I already have it on my kindle so I am looking forward to reading it myself 🙂
And I asked for Illuminae for Christmas since everyone ha sbeen raving about original formatting.
It did and there’s a good reason everyone’s so excited about it! I hope you like it!
Good idea! I didn’t ask for Illuminae, because I had no clue what to expect!
It’s great to have a good romance and a main character you can easily relate too. I didn’t know about this one but now I’m curious about the intense end lol
I only heard about this book a month or two ago, and it sounded pretty good. But I had no idea the main character was a library apprentice!
Which books did I ask for Christmas? Too many. *lol* I asked for the second and third books of Laini Taylor’s Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy (and already received them!), Andy Weir’s The Martian, and… and… I don’t remember the others. XD
(Heads over to Amazon and purchases Air Awakens). Yay! Yay! Yay! Molly, I kid you not, I recently just heard about this book like two days ago and added to my TBR over at Goodreads. I read the synopsis and it looked promising, but being the contrarian that I am (my nature causes me to avoid any and all things deemed good by popular opinion) I brushed the book away. Anyway, your review sold me, that is to say, I trust your judgement 😉 Can’t wait to read it!
Yup, I’d totally read it
I like the sound of this one! Especially about the ending which made you lose sleep. That’s intense. Plus I am in love with that cover…
I’m loving this book so so much!! I’m halfway through. I can’t wait to pick up book 2. Hi Woven!!! ^_^ I nominated you for the One Lovely Blog Award!
Don´t you just love when you can relate with the any of the characters of a book… The reading becomes almost personal, although in a different level as It is not you and you haven´t written that book… Great review and the ending sounds intriguing…
Merry Christmas and all my best wishes to you. Aquileana 🎄
Do you often struggle to sleep because of a book?
Love this cover and the book sounds awesome! No bad? Wow! Sounds like a must read to me. Thanks for sharing. 🙂