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Elementalists, Book 1

By: SI Foote

Narrated by: Nick Flesher

No one who enters the Council chambers leaves it alive.

25,000 feet (7,620 meters) above the Gulf of Mexico floats Elementōrum Patriam, the eighth continent for the elementalist people, where the seven-member Council rules. Those born with the elementalist gene mutation are taken to Elementōrum Patriam, but if they can’t control one of the seven elements, they are killed.

Nineteen-year-old Ethan Silverspoon knows the fate that awaits him when he doesn’t pass his last Water element test. He walks willingly into the Council chambers and faces the seven. There’s only one problem.

The Council can’t kill him.

On Earth’s surface, irate humans, sick of having their children taken from them, seize their opportunity to destroy the elementalists forever. The Council faces their biggest war since the separation of Pangea, and they need Ethan on their side.

Ethan must find his place among the Council, or they will fall together.

©2023, 2024 Samantha Foote (P)2024 Samantha Foote

Great start to a new series!

I received an audio copy in exchange for an honest review.

This is the first book of a new future-fantasy series. It follows Ethan, who is sentenced to death for not being able to prove he can control any of the elements. But when several attempts on his life fail, the council is left scrambling for information about what he might be.

There is a rich world with an elemental based magic system (with a little more than most have!) and a diverse and interesting cast of characters. Three of which fall somewhere on the asexual spectrum which is always a win for me.