#vhalla edit

[henrycavillary]

“Vhalla, I need her in so many ways, Mother help me,” Aldrik groaned. “I need her as my redemption, I need her kindness, I need her forgiveness, I need her smiles, I need her humanity, I need her ignorance, I need her innocence, and, yes … Mother Sun, yes, I need her as a man.” Aldrik Ci'Dan Solaris & Vhalla Yarl Solaris | Air Awakens Series by Elise Kova

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[apiphobic-writer]

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[eilonwiiy]

Even something very small can cast a large shadow when it is close to the sun.

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[lilabard]

@booksociety‘s november reading event: elementalists ↳ air awakens by elise kova

Fire needs air to live. Air fuels fire, stokes it, and makes it burn brighter and hotter than it ever could alone. But too much air will snuff it completely, just as too many flames will consume all the air. They are far greater than the sum of their parts together, but are equally as dangerous to each other’s existence.

#airawakensedit #booksociety #air awakens #elise kova #vhalla yarl #aldrik solaris #*mine #*2019 #*graphics #booksocietyevents #back to simple edits akdljfha listen this was rushed #found this series when I was looking for books with elemental magic haha #loveeed it so much that I read all five in a week #and not only have I forgotten 90% of it but it's all mashed together as well haha #anyway I absolutelyyyyy love books with elemental control in them feel free to rec anytime #I already did truthwitch for booksociety before but truthwitch is also really good

[long-live-solaris]

You do not lower yourself to their rules or expectations. You blow in whatever direction you feel is needed and leave them with no choice but to oblige.

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[bigdreamsandwildthings]

Review: Air Awakens (Elise Kova)

Rating: ★★★/5

"That wasn't all she was. Vhalla turned and started for the doors before her resolve failed her. She already had secrets. She was the first Windwalker. She was something the crown prince had claimed he would protect. Vhalla's toes stopped at the edge of the light in the doorframe. She didn't yet know what she was about to blossom into, but it was far greater than a library girl." First off, I take offence, as a library girl, at the insinuation that that is a starting point and not a full-on end goal. Just saying. Also saying: I don't get the hype for this one. Vhalla Yarl is a library apprentice, essentially a servant in the palace of the Emperor. When a prince returns to the palace, injured and in need of help, Vhalla searches her books and finds something to help him - but draws attention to herself in the process, only to find out that she actually has a dormant magical ability. She is a Windwalker, the first in a hundred years, and the crown prince, Aldrik, almost kills her to find that out. She gets closer to him as he tries to teach her about her powers, but she isn't sure whether to embrace them...or have them eradicated forever. What turns me off most about this one is the writing style. Something about it made me feel, constantly, like I was reading video game dialogue; everything feels stilted and strange, like the words just don't...fit. This definitely needed an extra run-through of edits, and the comma splices are absolutely out of this world. I found all of this very distracting all the way through, and it definitely detracted from the story for me. Character-wise, though, Vhalla is a highlight. I did enjoy who she is and how she grows over the course of this book. Her powers, tropey as they may be, are interesting, and how she takes her time getting to know them and herself is quite enjoyable to read. However, when it comes to other characters, I was underwhelmed. Aldrik is fine, the typical bad boy prince who's so misunderstood but with a heart of gold underneath; Baldair gave me weird vibes constantly, and yet Vhalla's all "oh he's just so good oh my gosh" and that contradiction had me scratching my head a lot. There is literally no world-building at play here either. I was trying to wrap my brain around who was from where and who was at war with who but other than driving home the fact that some characters are Western/blond/etc. there was just no context given. I felt lost, but then the romance picked up, so I realized that that was going to be the focus instead. Which is fine, I like a good romance. Except it didn't really prove to be all that good. Overall, I found this okay, but I won't be continuing with the series. There's too much that distracted me from the story itself and jarred me out of the narrative.

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[asexualbookbird]

AIR AWAKENS BY ELISE KOVA  ★☆☆☆☆

Vhalla has always been taught to fear the Tower of Sorcerers, a mysterious magic society, and has been happy in her quiet world of books. But after she unknowingly saves the life of one of the most powerful sorcerers of them all–the Crown Prince Aldrik–she finds herself enticed into his world. Now she must decide her future: Embrace her sorcery and leave the life she’s known, or eradicate her magic and remain as she’s always been. And with powerful forces lurking in the shadows, Vhalla’s indecision could cost her more than she ever imagined.

What. A. Mess. The internet has been talking about this book for years! Saying how much fun it is and how unique, how amazing the story is and how badass the main character is. The only negative thing I’ve ever heard about this book is that the main character isn’t white, yet the cover depicts her as so, and when authors generally have little to no influence over a cover I can’t fault them for it. (I absolutely can yell about it to the publisher, though, because in no way is it okay.) So yeah! I was excited about this book! Now I’m left wondering if I read the same book the rest of the internet did. 

GOODREADS

From the beginning it was clear Vhalla and I wouldn’t get along. She’s just not the type of character I like to read about. She has no drive, she has no reason to push the plot forward, and only wants things to stay the same. I get it from a realistic standpoint. If someone came up to you and said everything about you and your world as you know and understand it, yeah you’d be reluctant to change. But when the whole narrative revolves around her waiting around to make her decision, it’s boring. Especially when we know her decision. We know she’s going to say yes one way or another. It’s a series, she’s the main character, she’s not going to decide to stay in the library and kiss the sorcerer life away, or there’d be no point in the story at all. So a good portion of this book is just waiting around for her to make a decision. And by that I mean like 75% of the book. It’s poorly paced and Vhalla is not good at making decisions, and when she does she flipflops a lot. Among her poor decision skills is Love Interests. I know love polygons are big in YA, it’s part of the reason I’ve been shying away from it, but this was a bit ridiculous. She has three men interested in her, and I say men because two of them are five or six years older than her and it squicks me out. She just turned eighteen, that’s the equivalent of still being in high school, or just graduating, and her main love interest is twenty four. Imagine, you haven’t even figured out your college living situation and someone who has been out of college for A LEAST a year is fawning over you and pushing you off of buildings confessing how much they care about you. I’d highly advise you to run. Far. Yes, there’s a love interest her age, she’s known him for years but he’s the Poor Friendzoned BFF so of course he’s Bad for her. And of course childhood crush, who’s known as a heartbreaker, who takes any girl to his bed so long as they’re willing. This was more a poorly written romance than a fantasy, and you know how much I hate it when a book says it’s one thing and then turns out to be something else. You see that striked text up there? That’s our main love interest. Prince Aldrik. He’s Dark and Mysterious™, misunderstood, has a bad temper, and somehow he’s the one she falls for? They communicate by letters for a while in what’s probably the worst way to establish lore and worldbuilding I have ever seen, and when they meet up for real, he takes her down a dark hallway, up on to the roof and then pushes her off. She gets badly injured, to the point where she’s unconscious for a week, but it’s all okay because he feels Real Bad about it so she forgives him. They have picnics together and fall in love, but neither of them will admit their feelings and it’s painful and cringey and so poorly written. I hate everything about this romance, and it took up the majority of the book. I kept wondering what the big climax would be, I mean we know Vhalla is going to say yes, but what comes from that? Well like the rest of this book, the climax was not very climactic. People we met once before, who made a cryptic “see you soon ;)” speech, attacked the commonfolk and Vhalla went after them, and Aldrik after her. She does something big, but we don’t know what because she faints and forgets everything that happened. I’m serious, we miss the Big Fight because Vhalla fainted. This wasn’t even in the first person point of view, there was no reason for us to miss that! We get the confusion she does, but I had to look and make sure my copy wasn’t missing a section because of how badly it skipped around. One moment a sword was coming down, and the next Vhalla is unconscious on a stone floor and we have no idea why. Oh and she’s also being charged for treason. For some reason. Tension, I guess. Even when people are revealed to be bad, it doesn’t work because we never saw them before, it was all focused on Vhalla and her love life, so who is this Mysterious Man we’re supposed to hate? None of it made any sense. And the writing! Ugh! I get it, this is a debut author, but this could have used at least another round of edits. Never mind the overuse of adverbs and epithets, I expect that from new authors even if that writing style isn’t my jam. But poorly written sentences? Bad metaphors? Misuse of tenses? An editor should have caught that. Looking into this series as a whole, it looks like the author pushed the release of each book pretty quickly, with sequels coming out within months of each other, and it shows. This seems incredibly rushed and like they were trying to reach an assignment deadline ten minutes before midnight. Readers aren’t going to mind the wait if it means a better quality book! Put in the time and effort to really polish your work if you’re going to be published. It ties into treating your readers well. I’ve talked about it before, how certain authors can explicitly and plainly explain what’s going on in the narrative without talking down to readers. Lemony Snicket is usually the example I use. Kova is no Snicket. In one scene, Vhalla is scheming trying to figure out why they need her specifically and her magic, and when the conversation ends, the narrator stops and says “oh Vhalla did this for reasons we just explained and she has this much time to figure it all out, as stated two sentences ago” and it’s annoying, repetitive, and talks down to the reader, and I hate it. I hate this book. I can’t think of a single redeeming quality to this book. There’s no worldbuilding, no character I liked, there wasn’t even a character that was well rounded or even consistent. I don’t know how the magic works, I don’t know who the antagonists are, and I’m pretty sure there are racist undertones? It sounds like the people who attacked the commoners were the few dark skinned characters, and Vhalla clearly has some issues to work out with thinking her best friend would be prettier if his skin was lighter. And don’t get me started on the prejudice against sorcerers. I understand why it’s in the narrative, I’m not upset about that, but Vhalla yells at her friends for being mean to sorcerers when she had the same exact mindset a week prior. So. She’s a hypocrite too. I guess the idea behind the story is good? Except I’m not sure even what that is beyond people have elemental magic, and I mean that’s always a cool concept. This book was Bad, and I can’t believe I actually made it all the way through. If you want a similar vibe, but with better uh everything, try the Oran trilogy by Midori Snyder. It’s hard to find, but it’s a similar idea with royalty and elemental magic.

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[jasminereadsbooks]

"𝑉𝘩𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑎 𝘩𝑎𝑑 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝘩𝑎𝑡 𝑠𝘩𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝘩𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑤𝑛. 𝑆𝘩𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝘩𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑡𝘩𝑒𝑠, 𝑔𝑒𝑚𝑠, 𝑜𝑟 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑜𝑠 𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑠... 𝑉𝘩𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑎 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝘩𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑡𝘩𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝘩𝑜𝑢𝑔𝘩: 𝘩𝑒𝑟 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑙𝑒𝑑𝑔𝑒." I started reading Air Awakens by Elise Kova last night and within 3 chapters I was hooked. I enjoy Vhalla so far and her story seems like it will be a good one. I just love this edition that I got from elise’s etsy store, it’s personalised and the chapter art is an amazing addition. What are you currently reading? #bookstagram #becauseofreading #bibliophile #bookcommunity #bookgram #booklover #booknerd #booksbooksbooks #goodreads #prettybooks #readersofinstagram #readingismagic #currentlyreading #youngadultbooks #fantasybooks #elisekova https://www.instagram.com/p/CLR3SXEAnrJ/?igshid=nrxtlqbhds9

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[eilonwiiy]

Fire needs air to live. Air fuels fire, stokes it, and makes it burn brighter and hotter than it ever could alone. But too much air will snuff it completely, just as too many flames will consume all the air. They are far greater than the sum of their parts together, but are equally as dangerous to each other’s existence.

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[eilonwiiy]

May your life, and reign, be one of light.

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[eilonwiiy]

And I truly wanted to keep you from pain.

air awakens / elise kova

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[eilonwiiy]

— Air Awakens by Elise Kova

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[eilonwiiy]

I swear to the Mother, I have tried not to damn you with it. But you’re a rather persistent, beautiful presence in my life. And, for once, the silver-tongued prince is tired of pretending.

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[eilonwiiy]

Vhalla wasn’t exactly good at relationships as she preferred to spend more time with books than people.

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[long-live-solaris]

Fire needs air to live. Air fuels fire, stokes it, and makes it burn brighter and hotter than it ever could alone. But too much air will snuff it completely, just as too many flames will consume all the air. They are far greater than the sum of their parts together, but are equally as dangerous to each other’s existence.

#air awakens #air awakens series #vhalla yarl #aldrik solaris #vhaldrik #graphic #ya lit #ya lit edit #litloversnetwork

[eilonwiiy]

Hello friends!  Mini update bc I feel terrible that I’ve been M.I.A. for the last month.

1. I have not abandoned Bookends!  I can’t tell you how disappointed I am that I wasn’t able to get a chapter out last month.  I really wanted to, you guys.  BUT it is on the way!  The rough draft is basically done and it’s now a matter of editing.  I originally planned it to be longer, but then you’d have to wait longer and I just don’t feel like doing that.  Aeduan is almost here and idk about you, but I’m READY.

2. Remember when I said I had a burst of 2AM Vhalla/Aldrik fic inspiration?  No?  Well, that ficlet is still in the works.  My babies need more love and by god I’m going to give it to them.

3. I have so many art WIPs but dAMN am I indecisive when it comes to coloring and brushes.  Expect to see some Witchlands and Air Awakens stuff soon *prayer hands* because we’re all starving for more content. 

#personal #basically these are my november goals