What if color held the secrets to powerful magic?
Forced to move into the palace, Jessa begins training as a Color Alchemist under the direction of the kingdom’s most eligible bachelor, Prince Lucas. As an alchemist, Jessa must capture and harness the color of living things. Every color has a unique purpose, except red. Red is the untapped magic no one can access—until Jessa.
Prince Lucas is … Jessa.
Prince Lucas is running out of time. His mother is nearing death and the healing magic isn’t working. When Lucas suspects someone is using alchemy to control her, he sets out to discover the truth, even if it means uncovering Jessa’s secrets in the process.
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“I didn’t collect secrets. I only had one. One little, messy mistake I’d kept buried in the back of my mind for months. Now, I felt the danger of its existence as I stared into the eyes of the person whose job it was to dig up those secrets. She would inch around it, gentle at first, before she’d rip it out by the roots. Then the intruder would take it away, and I would go with it.
“Do you know why we’re here?” the royal officer asked. Her glare locked me in. I shook my head, knowing the lie had to be seamless.
The officers had come with their questions on the worst possible morning. Every minute of this day should have been spent preparing for the most anticipated ballet performance of my life. Not this. Anything but this.
I wanted nothing to do with magic.”
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Jessa has one dream – to be a prima ballerina. She also has one secret… a big one. She is a colour alchemist. In New Colony, Color Alchemists are taken from their families very young and trained in the Royal Palace as Guardians of Color. Their Magic keeps the Kingdom safe and prosperous.
Jessa is swept into a violent and secretive world where she questions all she was taught at school and struggles to control her magic.
She befriends Prince Lucas, who has a secret or two of his own. His mother is ill, and the healing magic is not working, so he sets out to discover what is going on. He does not trust his father, the King, and together he and Jessa embark on a treacherous and dangerous mission to save the Kingdom and those they love.
For those who loved Matched and the Lunar Chronicles, this is a must-read. I could not put it down and finished the complete series in a weekend. There are plot twists and secrets that make the story riveting and intriguing.
A must-read for lovers of good YA novels
I pretty much sped read through the last two books just to get to the end of this series to see how it ended. I never felt fully engaged in the story. I never felt like I really understood how the magic system worked. It was just like there are colors, they do x, y, and z, you have to work your whole life to excel at them, maybe, except Jessa. Everything felt contrived. The story didn’t flow naturally. You ended up at point B sometimes not really understanding how you got there. Significant timeline issues, and there wasn’t a single relationship that I enjoyed. At first I thought Sasha would be the redeeming character for me in this series, and then she was ruined with the Tristan/Mastin triangle. And Jessa and Lucas relationship… I don’t even have words for how awful they were. After their first spat I was never rooting for them again. They never actually listened to each other. I think there is potential in this story, but I found myself not being able to stand or care about the vast majority of the characters. Wasn’t impressed with how it ended either.
Narcissistic king who is anti-magic Vrs. Magic users in hiding in a post apocalyptic U.S. and Canada.
It’s nice to read an Indie author who’s work flows and carries you away the minute you start reading, that is what Ms. Walker has done with her Color Alchemist series. It is also nice to be able and sit down to read the complete series and not have to wait for the next book to come out. The idea that each color has magic and can be use for good or bad, depending on ones morals, is a great concept. Of course the king/political system has total control of it’s users. The fact that her story took place in what was North America just makes it even better because it seems so relate-able in 2016. Ms. Walker uses the cultural influences of our east and west coasts and writes the differences into her story. Her character development and interaction between main characters Prince Lucas and dancer Jessa and their forbidden love had me hooked through the whole series. All the angst from the marginalized people and use of magic being forbidden creates a lot of tension between them and the king. Amended 3/5/2021: It’s a story that has stayed with me the past few years. To some readers it may appear to be a slow read but it sits in my soul and wont go away. Maybe it’s the quality of the read that feels a little real at times and reminiscent of our past four political year. I really enjoyed the series.
I was so unsatisfied with the beginning of this book. It has such an intriguing premise about colors that allow people to have different capabilities but omg. It took forever to even find out what ONE color gives the power for. I stopped reading a few chapters in.
I could not put these books down. Stayed up way too late reading them. Too many times I told myself at the end of this chapter I’ll stop to only get hooked into reading one more.
You must accept the premise that colors can be used to perform magic.