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Billy struggles to cope with his mother's passing to the point that he becomes miserable when his father remarries. All attempts to draw him out of his shell fail, as the young boy prefers to comfort himself with memories of his late mother. When his stepmother tries to stop him from getting a book during one of their mall trips, Billy becomes enraged and runs off. He gets lost and ends up in a mysterious place where nothing is as it seems. His effort to return home leads him to team up with Miranda, a blind girl who is equally lost. Unbeknownst to them, they have entered the magical world of Avarath, where war has devastated its inhabitants, who are waiting for the fulfillment of a unique prophecy in JP Behrens's A Trinity of Chosen: An Age of Avarath.
The world-building blends traditional fantasy elements, like dragons and wraiths, with creatures such as flame-covered wolves. JP Behrens highlights the factions within Avarath, detailing their varied loyalties through an extensive, gradually unfolding origin story. This distinctive storytelling approach creates an immersive adventure that engages readers as they decipher the clues of Avarath's complex prophecy. The dialogue mixes old-world English—especially in Miranda's and Billy's interactions with Avarath's inhabitants—and modern banter, as seen when Billy and Miranda trade barbs over the motives of some of the inhabitants they have to work with. What stands out in A Trinity of Chosen is how Behrens weaves humor, drama, and intrigue into a narrative full of questions about causality, which will thrill science-fiction and fantasy fans alike.
