Reviewed by Becca
TITLE: Awakening
SERIES: Darklight #1
AUTHOR: Sean Ian O’Meidhir & Connal Braginsky
PUBLISHER: Ninestar Press
LENGTH: 322 pages
RELEASE DATE: May 11, 2020
BLURB:
Nathen was recently diagnosed with autism, and he’s a newly created vampire. His maker, a multinational corporation with its finger on the pulse of the technology industry, has recruited him to stop a terrorist plot. In the process, he meets Cameron, a telepath and psychologist, who has a troubled past he keeps locked up in the shadows of his psyche.
Nathen is confused by social cues and Cameron can barely block out the thoughts of others.
Together, they find common ground, and with the help of their friend Syn, they work out the secrets of the terrorist group and learn that the plot is far greater than they could have imagined.
REVIEW:
You know, I love the collaborations of these two. I’m fascinated by their stories, although I’m going to have to get Sean if he don’t quit with the spiders 😉 . But once again, they have hit it out of the park for me and I have to give them props. To make one of the main characters not only autistic but a vamp???? I love it. I love seeing that so much. Characters with disabilities are just as good at things as everyone else. They just sometimes have to do it differently and I love that it was described in here as well. How the disability affects him and what he needs to do. People don’t often get it and I love to see information being made known like that.
Nathen woke up in an office, having no clue where he was or how he got there. All he knew was that he was meeting with a psychologist to see where he was on the Autism Spectrum and then a blank. Next thing he knows, he’s being told he has a new job where his hacker skills would be used and he’s now a vamp. And with his mind not being able to process like everyone else’s, it’s really freaking him out. It doesn’t help that everything is making him overstimulated. But once he’s away, he’s able to process a bit and immediately starts talking to his contacts to figure out the project he’s supposed to be working on. What it leads to will change his life forever. He meets for the first time, his online friend Syn, who is a hacker like him, and they’ve done jobs together. But it’s her friend Cameron that throws him off. And Cameron as well. Cameron being a mage is used to reading people, but he gets nothing from Nathen and that scares him. After secrets start coming out, they realize they are up to their eyeballs in corporations that are shady as heck. And their secrets are now exposed. So now they have to decide to fight this and figure out what’s really going on, or try to run and see how long they can stay under the radar.
Man, I felt for Nathen so bad in this book. With coming to terms that he is autistic and vamp within the same day??? Yeah, not cool. I immediately didn’t like the company that did this to him either. I knew there was something shady with them from the beginning and the more I learned the more I feared for all of them. Especially when Cameron and Syn got involved, and they all found out the extent of these guy’s reach. It didn’t help when they realized some of what was really going on either. Because I will be honest, these people are MESSED up with a capital F, if you get my drift. And the fact that others are trying to hide under the radar as well. Yeah, I don’t blame them. It’s like our government and feeling like you’re being watched all the time. Same principle, but it’s high powered corporations that are doing some messed up stuff. And the threat they put out was small in comparison to what they’ve been up to.
But I have to tell you, this book will keep you captivated. Wondering what’s going to happen next. It’s a conspiracy theorists dream come true. Also a mystery persons. It’s got all you need to keep you entertained and I loved every page. And I’m ready to see what’s next.
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