The Turning Wind

Self-Published

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Description

For forty one years of life eternal, Aleicree has worked a daily shift aboard a trade ship, settling into the glorious work of becoming the ship's wind! This comfortable regularity looks like it will last forever, but Aleicree has hardly made a friend since zie attended windmagic academy. Will it forever be enough to write letters to old friends?

Zie/zir is a hermaphrodite pronoun, but the protagonist's gender probably doesn't matter. Updates every Saturday!

Information

Status: Completed
Year: 2023
Author: Rakeela

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Rating: 3.1/ 5.0
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lankhmarRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Read if you enjoy slow paced worldbuilding, avoid if you're looking for action power fantasy!
This is the 2nd book set in Rakeelas fantasy world, and while you might benefit from starting with The Tachanigh-Kelkaith, there's little overlap and I think they can be read independently.
While I enjoyed The Turning Wind, I think a lot of readers might struggle. It's written well enough but genre is closer to slice of life than the power fantasies popular on RoyalRoad. In some ways it comes across as duller than Kelkaith - our protagonist Aleicree is very quiet and withdrawn, very real as a person, but it is difficult to write an exciting book about someone whose ideal holiday involves much time with their nose in a book!
The worldbuilding continues to be a strength. In Kelkaith we explored how the gods interact with their lands and those living in or passing through, but in The Turning Wind the focus is more on magic itself and how fate and chaos interact.
Overall I enjoyed it - but then again I'm also the sort of person who enjoys holidays with a book, and maybe some board games ;)