Thank you for your interest in beta reading Awakening: Chronicles of the Coherence, Volume 1. Below you'll find general book info, tropes, and trigger warnings. 

Awakening

While life on the streets can be lonely and often dangerous, ever since awakening without memories but with voices in his head prone to arguing and name calling, a young boy living beneath Seattle, who goes by Kid, hasn’t ever really been alone. 

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One day, the touch of an ominous, gloom-enshrouded hand of a criminal overlord sparks Kid’s rapid development of new abilities. He soon gets a cryptic message that this gloomsome hand might be the key to both recovering his past and staving off the end of the world. Kid must use his newfound powers to avoid the Citizenship, Housing & Logistics Authority--the nationalized police, unaffectionately known as the Chill--and infiltrate the criminal organization of the man with a gloomsome hand to find his missing past and discover what it’s like to not be interminably alone. He may even stumble upon a way to save humanity.

General Book Info

• 1st book in series

• Series comprised of 4 trilogies and one alt-pov spin-off, all already written

• Each trilogy (not book) starts with a prologue and ends with an epilogue 

• Darker vibes (criminal life)

• Non-traditional narrative devices (three internal voices, eg.)

• Short alt-pov scenes as interludes between quadrants

• Distant future narrator telling ancient history

Tropes

• Street urchin MMC

  • No memories

  • Supernatural abilities

  • Autistic

• Cryptic prophecy

• Archetypal animal affinities 

• Secret underground lair

• Street gang environment

• Parkour-style roof running

• Near future technology

• Alternate history

• Surveillance state

• Minimal romance

  • No spice

• Found family

Trigger Warnings

• Street gang environment

  • fist fights

  • knife fights

  • gun fights

  • arboreal violence

  • physical injuries

  • death

  • discussion of rape

  • drug use

  • profanity—most non-traditional

  • graffiti 

• Homelessness

  • poverty—shoplifting

  • food scarcity—graphic detail about non-traditional foods

• No family

Feedback goals

Think big picture. How do you feel about the characters, the setting? Do decisions and emotional responses make sense? What do you think about the plot developments? Obviously, you are welcome to leave comments about typos or confusing sentences and the like, but those aren't the things I want you focused on considering. Be respectful. Belligerent, mean spirited, or bad faith commentary will result in the end of the Beta-Author relationship. Let's try foster an environment of mutual respect.

Deadline

6 weeks after receipt of manuscript