Bloodbound Covenant (Book One of the Bloodbound Saga) by Noah Raines leans into that discomfort. Two teenagers meet, seemingly by chance, and are pulled into an old war against ancient enemies. Caleb grows up on a Montana farm with a cold, distant father still marked by Vietnam. A thousand miles away, sixteen-year-old Sofia mourns her father, an ex-cop who died nine years earlier under murky circumstances.
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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.