My chapter-by-chapter review of Vivian Amberville — The Weaver of Odds — a masterpiece fantasy novel by bestselling author Louise Blackwick’s
Aug 26, 2017 · 5 min read
This pretty much sums up my thoughts and reading experience of Vivian Amberville — The Weaver of Odds by Louise Blackwick, chapter by chapter. MILD SPOILERS AHEAD. Here goes:

- reading the first chapter “Hmm, pretty interesting to read about a day in the life of a Weaver (person who manipulates reality).”
- reading 2nd chapter: “Story’s getting kinda dark. Orphanage beatings, dead children. Where is this going? Omg, Kate is an awesomely-drawn character and so is Vivian!”
- 3rd chapter: “Holy S**t! Did this girl just change the outcome of an event? Or was it the Weavers from chapter 1? Is Vivian nuts?”
- chapters 4 and 5: “I’m pretty sure the main character, Vivian is completely nuts!”
- chapter 6: “She wasn’t nuts!”
- chapter 7: “Vivian is exploring a parallel world. The universe is nuts, trippy and I absolutely love it! This story is becoming a bit of a drug now. I’ll read one more chapter and will go to bed”
- chapter 8: “Can’t go to bed now! The most amazing dialogue sequences combined with world building and plot development in the history of literature!”
- chapter 9: “Story gets simply impossible to put down. Amazing villain. awesome breaking of the 4th wall.”

- chapter 10: “WTF, a character just died because of an information we were only being hinted at in chapter 2! Amazing action scene. I love the wild, new character that has joined the main trio!”
- chapter 11: “The wild, new character that has joined the main trio is a complete cunt! Floating citadel in the sky and some of the most amazing places in the parallel reality are now being introduced through brilliant characterization and storytelling”
- chapter 12: “Vivian finally meets the Weavers, which is both a good thing and a bad thing. The Weavers are the most awesome civilization ever devised by an author, though they’re pretty much the bad guys in this. But gosh, I love to hate them!”
- chapter 13: “It’s 3:00 AM and I want to sleep. I got classes to teach in the morning, but I somehow feel my life will not be complete if I don’t find out how Vivian is going to get out of the most dangerous competition since the hunger games: The Weaver Trials. It’s like walking on pure madness”
- chapter 14: “Mind is being blown by the seemingly irrelevant plot device placed in chapter 7, which ends up being Vivian’s only hope for surviving this competition. She also starts private lessons of Weaving (manipulating matter) Bloody hell, the level of storytelling is amazing!”
- chapter 15: “Basically resigned myself to the idea of sleep. The first Weaver Trial — The Trial of Paths: is the most gruesome, insane and bloody epic chapter so far. It involves doubles of the main character from parallel dimensions dying in gory, creative ways. Vivian is basically bending the space-time continuum around her, so that she can pull herself through. This chapter is basically Game of Thrones-Season-4-level storytelling.”
- chapter 16: “Finally we get to see more of this crazy world. Some new characters are introduced. Vivian gets a crazy revelation at the end, which brings back a potential villain from earlier on”
- chapter 17: Who needs sleep anyway? Second Weaver trial “The Trial of Fears”. Vivian faces her worst fears. Pffff! Big deal, it’s not like fears are real- wait, what? OH S**T! Fears can actually KILL you in this trial? Vivian pretty much relieves chapter 2 and 3, the very worst moment of her life-. haha, it’s cool that Vivian can now weave straight into the fabric of reality and — what is she doing? WHAT IS SHE- oh dear lord, SHE CREATED A MURDEROUS TIME PARADOX!
- Chapter 18: “Finally, a bit more relaxed storytelling, peppered with humour, characterization, memorable locations (aren’t bars amazing?). Surely nothing can go wrong — and… yep, everything goes south. Game changer moment. Problems return and it changes everything, not just for main character, but everyone, everywhere.”
- Chapter 19: “It’s 8:00 am. I’m supposed to be getting ready for work, but I haven’t slept, haven’t showered, and I’m basically still reading this outstanding book from this amazing young novelist who deserves a bigger audience for this book alone. You know what? Screw going to work. I’m going to call in sick. Where was I? Oh, 3rd Weaver trials: The Trial of Wills. Once again, amazing payoffs, revelations, epic action shots, brilliantly-written twists and turns — except a huge problem: someone is about to destroy reality.

- Chapter 20: is called “The Weaver of Odds”, because what Vivian does in this chapter is basically defying impossible odds. What basically happens in this chapter is insane: Military coup. Someone kidnaps the princess. Time is standing still. some douche kills all the Weavers and proceeds to destroying reality. Vivian goes after the bloke and she sees herself in the future, but also in al alternate present. Fucking hell, just ready your hankies because you’re going to shed quite some tears on this one. Essentially, this entire chapter is a Masterpiece in itself.
- Chapter 21: “The Weaver of Ways”. Everything kinda returns to normal, but… well, doesn't really. We find out one of the most awesome and underrated chapters is, again, the key to Vivian’s going-home problem, and that she could have gone home this entire time, only lacked the knowledge of how to do it. It’s pretty much Life 101. After being let into Vivian’s motivation behind every major decision, the last paragraph of the book lets Vivian make a major decision WITHOUT TELLING US WHY!!!
Final thoughts: This book is to fantasy literature what the Witcher 3 is to RPG Gaming. A bloody masterpiece. You are going to hear this someday, and I would be among the few who called it first. Vivian Amberville — note this name down — is a masterpiece. It will be a big name in some 3–5 years from now, and it goes without saying I’m hooked and look very forward to reading “Vivian Amberville — The Book of Chaos” .