Dalton Wyers is thirty-one. A father of two. A season ticket holder for Oklahoma Sooners football. And, as of this year, a debut novelist with no MFA, no writing workshop history, and no pen name hiding any of it. He has two Master’s degrees and a stack of professional certifications, none of them related to fiction. He taught himself to write using craft books and YouTube, started for real last year, and had a finished novel, Arvo, in under twelve months.
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A Cautionary Tale: Reviewing Dalton Wyers’ Arvo
Freedom of choice, reality, and even the question of what it means to be human collide in Arvo, a novel by Dalton Wyers. The setting is the very near future, and for seventeen-year-old Ethan Cole, life is normal—sort of. Like much of the country, Ethan is wired: neuro-integrated with an implant meant to help him live better. The device is not passive. It is a voice in his head, and it may have an agenda that has little to do with his well-being. When an upgrade becomes available, Ethan opts in, only to learn that the decision was never truly his.