Boy With No Name

Threads of Dreams #1.1

by K.A. Wiggins

When you’re nothing, you have to grab everything you can and hang onto it with everything you’ve got.

Ravel clawed his way up from failed test subject to master of the decadent underground club Freedom—not to mention shadow prince of the Towers of Refuge—and his ambition is far from sated.

But when the dreamwalker Ravel's been obsessed with since childhood vanishes from his monster-infested city, he risks everything he's built and become to chase her down.

Cut off from everything he knows, can this master manipulator find the right thread to pull and win back his love? Or will the conscience he's been running from all his life finally take him down?

Tragic pasts and twisted futures collide in Boy With No Name, a novellette-length companion story to Threads of Dreams book 2, Black the Tides, available in Fiction-Atlas Press anti-hero anthology The Devil You Know.

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First published September 30, 2020

About the author

K.A. Wiggins is a Vancouver-born Canadian speculative fiction writer, speaker, and creative writing coach. Her work explores social movements, environmental crises, and identity issues through intricate, dreamlike tales of monsters and magic.

Her debut, Blind the Eyes, was shortlisted in the Page Turner Awards 2020 eBook Awards category and a Barnes & Noble Press pick for "20 Favorite Indie Books of 2018." Her short fiction has been published by Enchanted Conversation: A Fairytale Magazine, Frozen Wavelets by the Earthian Hive Mind, Fiction-Atlas Press, and Virgibooks Inc.

Notably, she was a guest speaker at the first ORCHIDS Children's Literature Fest in Mumbai, won the Literary Arts Award in the 2021 Arty's, and is an executive team member and registered speaker with the Children's Writers and Illustrators of British Columbia (CWILL BC) Society. She's currently a creative storytelling coach with the Metro-Vancouver-area Creative Writing for Children Society (CWC).

Reviews

[Jennifer · Rating 5 out of 5]

I hardly have words to express how great this book is! I really enjoyed this perspective of the period between/near the end and then beginning of book 1 and 2 of the Threads of Dreams series (I think that should be where this one falls?). This is so good, and it gives some history and some context behind who Ravel is, how he came to be, and about quite a few events in his past, plus his perspective on all things Refuge, Under, Cole, Ange, and then some. It actually makes him as a character much more sympathetic, but honestly, it fleshes him out so much that you can feel yourself more in his head, understanding him better. I always felt there was much more to him. So this really was a great book to get my hands on! I'm a huge fan of Wiggins, so I will read anything more in this world setting! Always looking forward to more--I love the characters, the world itself, and the imagination that fueled it!

[TaniaRina · Rating 4 out of 5]

‘The ones that matter the most are always the ones I hurt the worst.’
I just read two prequels to this series then jumped into this one even though it’s #2.5. I was able to pick up right away as this has some of same characters from the beginning.

I definitely want to read the rest of the series, starting with ‘Blind the Eyes’.

The author is certainly following her own advice when it comes to her storytelling:
‘Leave them wanting just a little bit more.’

[Bre E. · Rating 5 out of 5]

This prequel is perfect! I read this after reading the complete series, and if I'd read this first, I would have devoured this series faster than I did! This is a short read, but it grabs you and doesn't let go!

[Jan Mesler · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good information that helped when I got to Blind the Eyes.