Aether's Guard

Aether's Revival, Book 2

De: Daniel Schinhofen

Narrado por: Andrea Parsneau

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

Still good

The quality and pacing stay the same as in the first book. There was a lot of groundwork in this one so I'm really looking forward to the next in the series. Narration was amazing as always.

Understated delight

This series doesn’t use fast highly-charged action: it’s more a steady slow-burning drama with brief moments of action. Likewise the magic system is detailed, and growth is slow. Even with some advantages, our MC has to fight for every gain. Further, all of the relationships in the story are slower paced as well, so each change therein is noticeable.

I enjoy how much detail the author uses in his books, and how the pacing (and content!) changes in each one. This series is like a slow dinner with good friends: the delight is in all the detail, and in the careful plot exposure. Each book’s content is another dinner course being served, with attention paid to everything, in order for all the nuances to be appreciated. The characters grow, their abilities and relationships grow, and new characters and understanding, are brought in to enhance the setting. It all makes for some powerful investment in the story. Readers will not just understand or accept where everyone will be in a few books’ time - they’ll have lived those experiences with the characters, walking with them to get there. The characters are richer and deeper for it.

There’s some sex in here too, but it’s definitely not the main part of the story. It appears appropriately due to the relationships. It’s also done tastefully, with some detail, and some “fade to black”.

Altogether this is a great series, and a welcome change from rapid-fire action. It’s not boring at all for that though, and the plot is a fun journey of discovery.

Definitely recommended (16+) and I can’t wait for the next book.

Love it

Amazing! I love this story., and Andrea Parsneau really makes the characters come to life.

Thank you Daniel and Andrea for another fun read.

I very much like Daniel Schinhofen’s writing. Once again, he has produced a book with good character development and depth along with fun action and a little naughty time. I am looking forward to the next in the series. Andrea Parsneau does her usual amazing job in bringing the story to life, I wish we could clone her 10 times so she could record more books.

Can't wait for the next one!

This series has become one of my favorites. The story is great and the narrator is even better! I can't wait for the next book.

Enjoyed! Wish the next one was out

I am sick of a lot of stuff, I consume tooooooo many audiobooks from self published authors. This one is good and fun and I didn't hate myself at all while reading it!!! Good sequel. Andrea is lovely. Easy to enjoy. If you like the first book, read this one, it's as good.

For the narrator, we all know she's great and 90% of the time she's in my top 5. Though I am honestly sick of all males she narrates being Scottish, though. What is up with that? Asian inspired setting? Scottish. Life on another world? Scottish. I love her normal male voices, but this gets annoying over 5 or 10 books. (I love her anyway, she's a very skilled reader and charming)

I hope the author will include a bit more world building for us to see. I'm expecting he will. Happy to read the next book. I'm as patient to take in things about the world as I am about magic or any of the characters. It was really a peaceful read to me, really let me escape the horrors of the past year for a little while and I am deeply grateful for that.

P.S. If you hate people showing affection to each other, some parts of this will drag. But if the first book was fine with you, this one will be to. Though all sings point to haram building, I'll probably leave then if it gets like that. Doesn't seem to have any purpose besides wish fulfillment. The characters don't seem suited to it at all.

I can't get enough!

All of Daniel Schinhofen's books that I have either read or listened to (mostly both), I enjoy thoroughly. This book is no exception to that pattern. I waited somewhat patiently for the release of this one and read it then bought the Audiobook as soon as it was available and reread it while listening to the narration. Andrea is an amazing narrator and a great match for Daniel's book. I look forward to the next book in the series!

Best. Series. Ever.

As always, the combination of Schinhofens brilliant storytelling and Parsneau’s remarkable performance brings a truly special escape to get completely lost in for a while. The length of the audiobooks is a particular boost for me as I spend a good amount of time on the road. Aether’s Revival has become my favorite series and I’m excited for the next sequel of Greg & Family. 11/10 would recommend!!

worthy second book.

a good continuation of the first book, and im glad that the sex is keept to a super low/non existent, most more pleasant to lissen to when its soft things like kissing and cuddling.

i absolute hope there will be a book 3-4-5-6 and so on. one for evey year they have at least.

again thanks for keeping the same narrator.

Better than the first

This is quickly becoming one of my favorite books. I greatly enjoy the interactions between the main characters and like that the story isn't rushed. Plus Andrea has always been my favorite narrator. Looking forward to more.