Princely Mistakes

Aether's Revival, Book 11

By: Daniel Schinhofen

Narrated by: Andrea Parsneau

Things were supposed to settle down after the Bloodrock war. Even with the upcoming wedding to Verka, things should have gotten calm. For a time, it even looked like it might, giving the family hope. However, Krogga was proving to be a far more dangerous post than they’d thought it would be.

The spies who’d been hounding them had to be dealt with, revealing them to be a few clans from the empire. They’d had to kill all involved, only bringing further trouble when an Imperial investigator arrived to question them. They held strong, and eventually, the investigator left with more than enough evidence of the clans being sanctioned.

The wedding finally arrived, and the family celebrated Verka joining them. Gregory overcame the ritual of the climb up the temple road, including talking Ragnar down. Having married Verka just before the solstice, all of them were looking forward to a week off to enjoy their newest addition.

Sadly, it was right in the middle of the Festival of Krog that Buldoun blundered. Launching an unprovoked and deadly attack, Buldoun might have managed to capture or decimate the city if not for Gregory’s foresight. When the attack was finally thwarted and the Buldounish ships sailed off, the city began to pick itself back up.

The Pettits did their best to help the city, all while wondering what would happen next. More of their family would be arriving during the year, and Krogga would be turning its angry gaze toward Buldoun. There was so much waiting to be settled that anything could happen, and they still had years left on their posting in Krogga.

©2025 Daniel Schinhofen (P)2025 Daniel Schinhofen

gorgeous

moves the plot, grows the world and makes me love the characters more...
just wish certain characters got what they are due

great progression

First few books where anoying and overly mushy, as the characters matured so did the story line. Great story though, beginning to end. I'm excited to see where things go next.

Cant get enough

Such a good book and such a fantastic series I hope this series goes on for 20+ books its just so much fun with the world building the family building and even the politics in the book are intriguing! Looking forward to the next installment!

Balance

Much better focus on story development and only a dash of harem highlights. Story is solid and narrator continues to bring the insane cast of women to life.

less trending water this time

definitely an improvement over the last book, not because it was bad but just more happened this time around. I'm looking forward to much more forward motion again in the next book still, Krogga definitely has played itself out and was starting to worry there was too much filler for what's already clearly a long series to come.
still a wonderful series and one of my favorites especially with Andrea's amazing narration!