Vivian Amberville - The Book of Chaos Hardcover

This book will release on March 23, 2025. Pre-order is now open! Every printed book in pre-order will be personally signed by Louise Blackwick. We will include some Vivian Amberville themed goodies with your pre-order for free. On top of that, you will receive a handwritten letter from Louise Blackwick, stamped with her very own wax seal!

Pre-order opening on November 23rd, 2024!

There is a hard limit to human imagination. This story will take you far beyond that limit, beyond the fabric of reality itself.

In this book you will find characters that can:

• manipulate luck, odds and circumstances (the ODDS WEAVER, Vivian Amberville)
• remove, store and control physical pain (the PAIN PUSHER, Wolfgaar)
• strip both objects and subjects of their shadow (the SHADOW STEALER, Djaar)
• reduce the physical world to concepts and abstractions (the CONCEPT BREAKER, Gold)
• create shifts in perception and/or gravity (the REALITY SHIFTERS, Yuresne and Circense)
• pluck sound out of thin air and store it inside containers (the THUNDER BRINGER, Antuun)
• absorb, hold and release darkness (the VOID WEAVER formally known as Allspice)

ABOUT THE SERIES

"Follow the Dark and where it's leading you..." 

Vivian Amberville® is a bestselling DARK FANTASY book series about a girl whose imagination can reshape reality.

ABOUT THE BOOK

"Vivian Amberville - The Book of Chaos" is the second instalment in the Vivian Amberville fantasy series by Dutch international author, Louise Blackwick. It centers on Vivian’s attendance at the “Alarian School of Thought”, a place where students learn the noble and dangerous art of “Weaving subtle Threads of influence into the fabric of reality”.

Joined by friends and challenged by foes, Vivian will have to master her ability to manipulate odds and circumstances, in a world now complicated by war, disease and political strife.

SHORT SYNOPSIS

Every crevice hides a shadow. Every shadow, a shape. And there are Darkthings sleeping beneath the folds of reality…

A book that won’t open. A grey and shadowless place. A mysterious Black Door, with a countdown from eight. And Things without Eyes that await in the Dark.

Vivian Amberville is about to unravel it all. Now that she is a student of Weavership at the “Alarian School of Thought”, she is to learn how to twist the fabric of reality to her will. There are answers to be found in Subexistence, the hidden pocket dimension of discarded choices and paths not followed.

But the Abyss is a dark and dangerous place, built like a labyrinth. Can she find her way out?

the only way out is through

With the help of a mysterious book from her past, Vivian must uncover the secret behind her Chaos-Weaving abilities, and learn the truth about her dark and terrible destiny.

LONG SYNOPSIS

Vivian’s powers over reality have taken a dark turn.

Believed to be a Chaos Weaver – a Weaver’s dark twin – Vivian’s powers must be brought under control, lest they consume the substance of creation.

Under the looming threat of a mysterious dark presence, Vivian will once again travel beyond the fabric of reality and attend the “Alarian School of Thought”, a place where Weavers are made and Chaos Weavers are notoriously unmade.

When the war on Chaos Weavers becomes a war for her soul, Vivian must seek the Abyss to confront the origin of her powers. Aided by a mysterious book from her past, she must learn to navigate Subexistence, a place where history can be rewritten, and Time is both instant and infinite.

Is Vivian Amberville’s life a figure-8 loop? Is there such thing as free will?

The Dweller on the Threshold is bound to answer her questions. And what of the Dark Horror that sleeps in the Abyss of Reality?

Her choice is between Heart and Death. On one side, is herself; on the other, reality.

Will she make the right choice?

WHAT THE AUTHOR SAYS ABOUT IT

For those of you who are new to this fantasy book series, “Vivian Amberville” is a vast world where the fabric of reality is not set in stone.

At the heart of the series is a magic system I dubbed “Weaving” (imagination made flesh) that uses various Weaving implements (distaffs, spindles, pocket looms, palladium thread, etc.) to influence the world by “Weaving subtle Threads of influence into the fabric of reality”.

“The Book of Chaos”, the second instalment in the saga, features new characters, unforeseen challenges, and a massive plot - woven exactly like a tapestry - that will make your head spin.

In parallel to the magic of “Weaving” into the fabric of reality, the sequel introduces its shadow-twin, “Chaos Weaving”, a magic system that relies on the dark side of imagination.

Unlike Weaving, which exerts influence over objective reality, Chaos Weaving affects only subjective reality. But it's not just about reality-manipulation.

The Vivian Amberville series also features people who can rewrite history using a special type of "Ink". It includes individuals who manipulate entire nations by putting words into people's heads and watch those exact words take over. We explore the art of imbibing and imbuing one's intention into an object, and many more mind-over-matter powers.

If all this sounds too complex, well it is. Standing at over 220K+ words “The Book of Chaos” has taken over five and a half years to write, and even longer to conceptualize.

If you're a fan of epic dark fantasy, with a new adult cast of characters, magical realism set in vast psychedelic worlds, rich Jungian themes and just a touch of Cosmic Horror, you're in for a real treat.

While it's not entirely required to read the first book in the series to make sense of it all (i.e. “Vivian Amberville - The Weaver of Odds”), "The Book of Chaos" does build heavily upon previous storylines opened in the previous book.

There are also returning characters whose stories are explored in the first instalment, so there's that.

All in all, I'm quite proud of this one. I can only hope you will give this epic great sequel a try!

- author Louise Blackwick

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