The Chosen: Breaking Bonds by Michael Williams

Three young meta-humans are plunged into the adventure of a lifetime in The Chosen: Breaking Bonds by Michael Williams. The petty pressures of high school life are hard enough without discovering that you have powers that are only getting stronger, not to mention a new job protecting the world, but that’s precisely the case for these young heroes. Capturing the cadence and personality of YA speech, as well as the uncertainty and insecurities so common during adolescence, Williams is an undeniably authentic storyteller. A more careful edit could eliminate the grammatical errors and tangential moments of prose, as well as shift the narrative balance from “telling” to “showing,” but overall, The Chosen is a fun fantasy adventure with three engagingly relatable protagonists.