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What Is Victoria Aveyard's Tempest About?

22 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this interview segment, author Victoria Aveyard explains that Tempest is her first fully adult fantasy novel, distinct from her previous YA or crossover works. She describes the book as a romantic pirate fantasy and shares her fascination with pirates, emphasizing that they inhabit liminal, in‑between spaces—worlds in flux, dying or being born, and power vacuums left by collapsing empires. Aveyard highlights how these gap spaces, where conventional borders and maps lose meaning, provide a compelling backdrop for the story’s themes.

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Tell us about Tempest. Tempest is my adult fantasy. It's my first adult book. All of my previous books have been written either specifically for the YA audience or more of a crossover in that it's a mix of YA and adult. But Tempest is firmly an adult fantasy, and we're calling it a romantic pirate fantasy. What do you love about pirates? Pirates exist in between worlds, and that's something I've always really been interested in, is worlds in flux, worlds that are dying, worlds that are being birthed. And pirates for the most part, have to exist in those sort of gap spaces. So, they exist in, like, the power vacuums left behind by empires, or places where the lines on the map don't really matter. And I think that's so cool to talk about those sort of things that spring up in between.