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Nomad Series #4
Chaos
Twenty-five years ago, two futures were changed.
Before becoming a Nomad and a Hunter, brothers Daegan and Brayden Sawyer were like everybody else on Foundation Earth. Then Daegan leaves for a school trip, a decision that would lead them to travel very different paths.
With his older sibling declared dead, Brayden’s grief causes him to spiral out of control. After being banished by his family, he becomes even more self-destructive. When he’s arrested and given a death sentence on the infamous Tyrat Prison, he realizes how far he’s fallen.
However, Daegan is alive, though he may wish otherwise after discovering he’s the latest recruit for the cyborg project. Years later, he finds salvation on the battleship, Ares. With their help, he becomes Gryffin and carves a formidable reputation for himself.
Chaos follows them as they fight their own demons and strive to find who they were always meant to be.
Before becoming a Nomad and a Hunter, brothers Daegan and Brayden Sawyer were like everybody else on Foundation Earth. Then Daegan leaves for a school trip, a decision that would lead them to travel very different paths.
With his older sibling declared dead, Brayden’s grief causes him to spiral out of control. After being banished by his family, he becomes even more self-destructive. When he’s arrested and given a death sentence on the infamous Tyrat Prison, he realizes how far he’s fallen.
However, Daegan is alive, though he may wish otherwise after discovering he’s the latest recruit for the cyborg project. Years later, he finds salvation on the battleship, Ares. With their help, he becomes Gryffin and carves a formidable reputation for himself.
Chaos follows them as they fight their own demons and strive to find who they were always meant to be.
173 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 27, 2020
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K.A. Finn
25 books27 followersI’m an Irish author based in Meath. I love writing romance fiction featuring damaged, moody, book boyfriends searching for their happily ever after.
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February 12, 2021This is set up as a prequel to the previous three books in the series, which were not ended. I am interested in a conclusion, not going back in history 20 years.
December 6, 2020
It was so worth the wait! Being a Nomad fan, I was super thrilled that the fourth book was released. Chaos is well-plotted, fast-paced, action-packed, exciting with a gripping storyline, capturing and holding my attention from start to end. The character development is brilliantly done; I found them to be uniquely complex, compelling, and incredibly engaging. K.A. Finn's writing is spot-on, clear, precise, and with fascinating and highly imaginative world-building. I was thoroughly entertained and can't wait for Mania.
Dan Calley's narration was outstanding. He captured the characters' personalities and demeanor while portraying the intensity of the scenes. Overall, Chaos was a fantastic listen with a captivating plot and characters, one I'll wholeheartedly recommend.
Dan Calley's narration was outstanding. He captured the characters' personalities and demeanor while portraying the intensity of the scenes. Overall, Chaos was a fantastic listen with a captivating plot and characters, one I'll wholeheartedly recommend.
December 8, 2020
( Format : Audiobook )
"What the hell is going on in your head, boy?"
This is one time that I regret not having read the earlier books in the Nomad series, although it does look as if the events depicted are actually charting the earlier decades before books one to three. As a youth, Gryffin was the sole survivor of The Foundation's experimental project to transform human children into hybrid cyborgs - half human, half machine. The program failed and he was left to die in space. Five years younger, Brayden Sawyer, resents that his life seemed to change so much after the disappearance and presumed death, of his brother, Daegon, then, later, that of his parents: he felt abandoned and resentful. This book follows the two brothers from childhood into adult life with key incidents, seperately recorded and always noting their increasing ages as it progresses, for some twenty plus years.
It is an unusual book, constructed as it is with brief glimpses over a long (two decade) period, and yet written entirely in the present tense, reading much more like a script than a novel and not a device that this reader would normally endorse. And yet it works well here, giving a stark immediacy to each part of the story. The reader gets to know both characters well, emotional response demanded, and yet they both remain somewhat remote and - at least in my case - unlikable but compelling.
Narration of this fourth in the series book was by Dan Calley, not the same person as that of the earlier three. His performance for Chaos was spot on, with separate character voices and, especially, a reading which was simultaneously devoid of emotion but still carried an hint of compassion, warmth, involvement. Quite remarkable, really.
My thanks to the rights holder of Chaos, who, at my request freely gifted me with a complimentary copy of the book via Audiobook Boom. Not yet completely sure how I feel about this book, I have offered a tentative four star rating as it was enjoyable but it felt more like a background till in than a novel in it's own right. I definitely recommend any potential reader first tries one of the three prequels, as I now intend to do.
"What the hell is going on in your head, boy?"
This is one time that I regret not having read the earlier books in the Nomad series, although it does look as if the events depicted are actually charting the earlier decades before books one to three. As a youth, Gryffin was the sole survivor of The Foundation's experimental project to transform human children into hybrid cyborgs - half human, half machine. The program failed and he was left to die in space. Five years younger, Brayden Sawyer, resents that his life seemed to change so much after the disappearance and presumed death, of his brother, Daegon, then, later, that of his parents: he felt abandoned and resentful. This book follows the two brothers from childhood into adult life with key incidents, seperately recorded and always noting their increasing ages as it progresses, for some twenty plus years.
It is an unusual book, constructed as it is with brief glimpses over a long (two decade) period, and yet written entirely in the present tense, reading much more like a script than a novel and not a device that this reader would normally endorse. And yet it works well here, giving a stark immediacy to each part of the story. The reader gets to know both characters well, emotional response demanded, and yet they both remain somewhat remote and - at least in my case - unlikable but compelling.
Narration of this fourth in the series book was by Dan Calley, not the same person as that of the earlier three. His performance for Chaos was spot on, with separate character voices and, especially, a reading which was simultaneously devoid of emotion but still carried an hint of compassion, warmth, involvement. Quite remarkable, really.
My thanks to the rights holder of Chaos, who, at my request freely gifted me with a complimentary copy of the book via Audiobook Boom. Not yet completely sure how I feel about this book, I have offered a tentative four star rating as it was enjoyable but it felt more like a background till in than a novel in it's own right. I definitely recommend any potential reader first tries one of the three prequels, as I now intend to do.
January 26, 2022
We see Gryffin as Daegan when all the horror starts. And Bray as a young boy as he grows up. I will say these are quick chapters of important moments in their lives. For Daegan, it's leaving on that school trip then being found in the lab that leads to the life he'll strengthen in. For Bray, it's when his brother leaves, when he learns of his parents death, and how he acts after. The sections are quick. I feel there could have been more said to bring us into the story more.
Seeing the boys grow into the men they are this way is interesting. It's interesting to see what they are doing in their lives at the same time, forging their own way in the world. Even see how close they came to meeting. But, part of me wonders if these stories would have been more gripping if told in a novella for each character. It all depends on each person's perspective. I do like seeing them at the same time as they get older and carve their way to their places we meet them at.
This is interesting, but I'm ready to return to the current troubles that Gryffin and Bray are in. And see the characters I grew fond of in the books.
Dan is a new narrator for me. He has a nice accent for the different characters and there are little differences between characters. He's very clear in speaking and easy to understand.
Seeing the boys grow into the men they are this way is interesting. It's interesting to see what they are doing in their lives at the same time, forging their own way in the world. Even see how close they came to meeting. But, part of me wonders if these stories would have been more gripping if told in a novella for each character. It all depends on each person's perspective. I do like seeing them at the same time as they get older and carve their way to their places we meet them at.
This is interesting, but I'm ready to return to the current troubles that Gryffin and Bray are in. And see the characters I grew fond of in the books.
Dan is a new narrator for me. He has a nice accent for the different characters and there are little differences between characters. He's very clear in speaking and easy to understand.
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