Vortex Visions (Air Awakens: Vortex Chronicles, #1)

by Elise Kova

A sweeping magical adventure, filled with family, royals, romance, and sacrifice. Perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas and Holly Black!

Vi Solaris is expected to rule an Empire she’s barely seen… but her biggest problem is the dangerous magic that’s awakening within her.

Now, alongside her royal studies, she’s training in secret with a sorcerer from another land. From his pointed ears to foreign tongue, he’s nothing like anyone she’s ever met before. But he just may be the only one who knows what’s happening to her.

As Vi fights to get her magic under control, the Empire falters from political infighting and a deadly plague. The Empire needs a ruler, and all eyes are on her as Vi must make the hardest choice of her life: Play by the rules and claim her throne. Or, break them and save the world.

This coming of age, epic fantasy is a story of family, sacrifice, sorcerers, slow-burn romance, and magical adventure that will ultimately take readers to places they never imagined. Once you step into the magical world of Solaris in VORTEX VISIONS you may never want to leave again!

• ISBN10: 1949694054
• ISBN13: 9781949694055
• Publish Date: 3 February 2019
• Publish Status: Active
• Imprint: Silver Wing Press
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 380
• Language: English

Reviews

[Leigha]

Vi Solaris is just about to go home when she discovers her evolving powers may lead her somewhere else.

It took me a while to get into Vortex Visions. The plot was slow as the author spent time developing the characters and the world. While I loved the Air Awakens series, I remember the first book tended to drag too. The author builds interesting worlds and character moments, but she’s not always great at balancing them while moving the plot forward.

Vi is a likable narrator. Her situation is unique as she is heir to the throne and ward to the North. I especially liked her growing connection to Taavin. Definitely a slow burn romance going on between those two. But while I liked Vi, I was pretty ambivalent about all of the secondary characters. All of the other characters (besides the characters from the original series) just didn’t seem all that interesting or integral to the story.

The book may be slow, the characters uninteresting, but the world is engaging. Vi’s visions of the future gave a bit of mystery to the overarching plot. It was like receiving a jigsaw puzzle of the future. I enjoy the direction the story is going even if I do not understand all the pieces yet.

tl;dr A slow start to a new series, but with lots of potential for growth.

[tweetybugshouse]

Vortex Visions is the epic spin-off we all been waiting for since we last laid eyes on the Air Awakens series. If your new to this author and the world of Solaris you can dive in with Vortex Visions and not feel like your missing anything. Though it does and should make you curious enough to go back and read the original Air Awaken series.

Vi is the daughter of well-loved Vhalla and Aldrick who is eluded to throughout the book but we never actually see them, as well as her twin brother. We know she is kept in the north as a political pawn and is suppose to have already returned home to her family in the south. She expected to be a fire bearer but just like her well-known mother, nothing about Vi works out the way anyone plans it to. Her magic is new and different which is so great as this book expands what we already have discovered in the original series. We have Fire bearers, wind walkers, water bearers and groundbreakers. Now that is expanded to Light Spinners.

I think the mysterious Taavin is going to be one that we come to love and adore as much as the old characters that show up in this one. As he is the catalyst that sets Vi off on an adventure like no other. This adventure really helps Vi magic to develop beyond what anyone ever expected.

I thoroughly enjoyed this one and though there is some heartache toward the end of the book nothing is definite and we can hold out some hope yet that things will turn out ok. Elise has done a fantastic job and me eager to see where the rest of the story is going.