{"id":130592,"date":"2025-03-13T11:31:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T11:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/books\/evoker-josh-erikson-bookshine-and-readbows\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T11:31:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T11:31:15","slug":"evoker-josh-erikson-bookshine-and-readbows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=130592","title":{"rendered":"EVOker \u2013 Josh Erikson \u2013 Bookshine And Readbows"},"content":{"rendered":"


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*I edited this novel and\u00a0received a free ARC of the final book, with no obligation to review at all.\u00a0 This review is unbiased and represents my own personal opinions.*<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

Blurb: In a future built on beautiful illusions, there\u2019s nothing more dangerous than the truth.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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The world has embraced the EVO, a neural chip that grants constant access to networks at a thought, and the ability to interact with reality through any filters imaginable. And for Michael Balder, it\u2019s everything wrong with society. But when his older daughter goes missing, he has no choice but to wade into those frenetic shadows to find the clues hidden within the prototype game she left behind. Together with his younger daughter, they delve into a new world layered over their own, fighting for answers as the city quickly transforms into a monster-infested nightmare. And when a violent cabal emerges to steal the program, Michael discovers that he has strange new powers to fight back\u2026magic. And the only way to win is to play\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

The Dyrnwyn Strain is a new sci-fantasy trilogy with litRPG elements, set in a near future where technology has been left to evolve unchecked, twisted to alter reality, and exploited to maximize profits at the expense of humanity. So\u2026you know\u2026fiction.<\/em><\/p>\n

If that sounds good to you, you can check out a free sample of Chapter 1 on the author\u2019s website, here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Review: <\/strong>I already love Josh Erikson\u2019s urban fantasy writing, but this novel is the first in a completely new series blending LitRPG and VR scifi with action-packed thriller, centred on a family dealing with bereavement and the challenges of moving from being a father and daughters to being a father and adult<\/em> daughters.<\/p>\n

Through the lens of a dystopian near-future, where adverts play out around you constantly and have become almost indistinguishable from what is real, we follow main character Michael Balder and his verge-of-adulthood younger daughter as they set off on a very personal quest to find their older daughter\/older sister and find themselves drawn into a war for who controls our perceptions in which \u2018virtual\u2019 reality has become all too painfully real.<\/p>\n

The plot is action-packed and bursting with adrenaline, as the pair run and fight their way through a city populated with monsters, fictional and corporate, using their new-found magic and the clues left to them, and trying to learn to work as a team of equals instead of a wounded family trying to protect what they have left of each other.<\/p>\n

Absolutely genius from beginning to end, this book will have you reading on the edge of your seat and leave you desperate for the next instalment in the trilogy\u2026 coming 25th April 2025!<\/p>\n

About the author<\/strong><\/p>\n

Josh Erikson doesn\u2019t have any fancy credentials to tell you about here. He lives in rural Nebraska (US) with his wife and two children, where he mostly reads, writes, and reads about writing. His many awards and accolades include some beautiful certificates he printed at home, and a yo-yo trick contest he once won at a fun fair in a grocery store parking lot.<\/p>\n

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Website: <\/strong>https:\/\/josherikson.com\/<\/a>
Facebook: <\/strong>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EtherealEarthSeries\/<\/a>
X\/Twitter: <\/strong>https:\/\/x.com\/Josh_Erikson<\/a>
Goodreads: <\/strong>https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/18049265.Josh_Erikson<\/a><\/p>\n

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