IA: Initiate

Name: IA: Initiate
Brand: Findaway Voices
Availability: InStock
Author: John Darryl Winston
ISBN: 9781509482269

Author: John Darryl Winston

Series: IA

Narrator: John Darryl Winston, Marquette Winston

Unabridged: 5 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: BHC Press/H2O

Published: 01/31/2018

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Everyone has secrets… What if you didn’t know your own?One young man with latent supernatural abilities plus one street gang hell-bent on recruiting him equals…IA: Initiate.The most important thing in the world to thirteen-year-old orphan “Naz” Andersen is keeping his little sister safe from the streets of a Chicago/Detroit-like urban ghetto known as the Exclave. Naz tries to stay out of the way at his foster parents' home, but he walks in his sleep. He is unable to keep the fact that he hears voices from his therapist. He attempts to go unnoticed at school and in the streets of the Exclave but attracts the attention of friends and bullies alike.Naz is ordinary, or so he thinks. He harbors a secret of which he is unaware. A seemingly random act of gang violence propels Naz on a path that leads to discoveries about his supernatural abilities, abilities that will ultimately decide whether he lives or dies. Now he must navigate his turbulent surroundings and face the full force of the world around him. The only way he can survive is to discover the supernatural world within.

Reviews

Goodreads review by John

My Goodreads friends, it has been a great year for the IA Series. I want to thank the many readers who have partaken and send an invitation to those of you who are in route. Union, the final book in the series, has arrived.......more

Goodreads review by Carmen

He wondered if he put himself out there and spoke up more often, could life be better? He wasn't having any fun, and he was getting restless. Naz (short for Nazarite) and his little sister, Meridian (aw, cute name!) are living in the ghetto exclave. This environment is dangerous for the children - ga......more

Goodreads review by Daniel

A very nice beginning to a, hopefully, long series. The plot is a bit slow moving and takes it's time in really explaining anything but it it all menages to be interesting. The siblings seem real, if a bit smart for how young they are but it's in keeping with the theme of the book. One of the negativ......more

Goodreads review by Thelonious

What makes a good science fiction novel? First, like most novels you need three dimensional characters, good writing, engaging dialogue and a entertaining plot. But after that fans of science fiction require something else to make a novel a good science fiction novel. We require the use of technolog......more