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Sound and Silence: A LitRPG Adventure

Worth the Candle, Book 5

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Sound and Silence: A LitRPG Adventure

By: Alexander Wales
Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
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Always the Dungeon Master, never the academic.

Juniper Smith always dreamed of attending a magic college. Now he's enrolled at the Athenaeum of Sound and Silence, where students learn to bend velocity and freeze motion itself. There's just one catch: he's there as a government operative, hunting threats that lurk in the shadows between lectures.

Echoes of Earth follow him even here. An old friend wears a stranger's face, carrying secrets about Arthur's time in Juniper's world—secrets that could rewrite everything Juniper thought he understood. Under the watchful eye of an umbral professor draped in colors that belie her shadowy nature, he finds himself navigating lessons far more dangerous than any syllabus.

Dark forces are converging on the athenaeum, and Juniper is about to get an education in more ways than one.

©2026 Alexander Wales (P)2026 Podium Audio
Action & Adventure Fantasy
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There are very few characters where I can foilow the internal monolog and say that’s so close to how I relate to the world. Books and often are simply journeys to get lost in and fantasise about, but this is one of the few where I can both do that and have an internal debate with the concepts I looked over in myself. Put aside the absolutely amazing meta concepts that are threaded through out, both said and unsaid. Then again with broader concepts, systemic or simply controversial delivered in a less attacking way to be easily digestible as a part of the whole. I think this may become one of my favourite series, but I tend to rush things, so will need some time to digest but I have truly enjoyed everything about this story you have told and the world you have built.

A strangely relatable MC

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