In The Darkness eBook Luke Smitherd
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The morning after a boozy night before comes with the rudest of awakenings for young bartender Charlie Wilkes. Instead of finding himself in his bedroom, he awakes in a prison consisting of moving, undulating black walls and a huge glowing screen that seems to float in thin air. But the prison isn't a prison, and the screen isn't a screen; incredibly, he is somehow inside the mind of a young woman - Minnie - and the screen is actually a projection of what she sees.
In The Darkness eBook Luke Smitherd
This book is definitely unusual, and I mean it in a good way. It's a story that will take you on a roller coaster ride - and it will take you places you may not want to go... However, it's a book I couldn't put down as I had to know what would happen next!This review is harder to write as I can't really say too much without giving anything away that could spoil your enjoyment in reading it for yourself. The surprises, twists, and turns? You NEED to read this for yourself!!
What made this a good read and kept me going? Well, it has elements of sci-fi, horror, supernatural or metaphysical, romance, and even a thriller... The different elements are woven together into an amazingly seamless tale. The characters are very well-developed so that you care about them and what they are going through. Also, we learn as the characters learn about the situation... and this keeps suspense building! Luke Smitherd has you feeling the range of emotions as the characters. I was confused in the beginning, and then later I was dying of curiosity. Further in, I was feeling disgust for the "villain" and a bit creeped out by his smooth ways of being bad... I was cheering for Charlie Wilkes and Minnie Cooper... the ending... Didn't see it coming like that! Any way, the point is this: it's a different story that immerses you into a strange new "world"(s)... The characters and the story definitely drew very visceral reactions from me, and some parts were quite macabre or even horrific... Yet, there is the other side of two people finding each other under the weirdest circumstances!
Read the book and ignore the cover and the synopsis... As you read, just roll with the story - and make sure you have the complete Dark Room saga! This story is hard to describe and hard not to ponder once it reaches the end...
I was given a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. I found it harder to write this review with all the elements as well as some things a character does is just so terrible I needed a moment... Then again, the story and other characters are compelling enough us to hope the villain gets what he deserves... Not many stories can get you to feel so strongly as we progress through the very end. It is different - and it still has me thinking about it! I will definitely read more of this author's work!
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In The Darkness eBook Luke Smitherd Reviews
You shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. No, seriously, most times, covers are crap when it comes to actually showing you what’s in a book, let alone if it’ll actually be good or not, and the same thing goes for titles. C’mon, you know I’m right. Look at some of the best books ever that have absolutely garbage titles. Don’t believe me? I can give you a perfect example, in three letters or less IT. Which is why it was surprising that when I saw “In the darkness, that’s where I’ll know you” I mentally took a step back, and really thought about the title. It’s… kind of gorgeous, you know? Evocative, yearning, and somehow poetic.
And really, it doesn’t do justice to the absolute crazy-pants insanity of this book. The plot is deceptively simple. Charlie Wilkes wakes up inside the brain of a girl with the unfortunate but hilarious name of Minnie Cooper. He is in a room that is completely black, with the exception of a screen - her eyes, through which he can see what she sees. He can hear what she hears, and when he talks to her, she can hear him. They need to work together to figure out what happened, why it happened, how to fix it, and so on, and as they do, they get to know each other better than some long-married couples.
My sugar-doped brain kept wanting to make comparisons to the 1987 Dennis Quaid comedy classic, Innerspace, but Smitherd, clever little monkey that he is, wasn’t about to let that happen. Because for all the surface humor and outlandishness of the situation, this is one seriously dark and twisted tale. Nobody is quite what they seem, and one severely screwed up individual can hurt if not destroy an infinite number of people without leaving a trace.
So here we have a combination of a really terrific title, and a ridiculous but intriguing premise and okay, FINE, even some pretty awesome cover art that actually represents the book pretty well. It’s a delicious combination. And for the most part, In the Darkness follows through on that early promise. The story winds through some twists that I would never have seen coming, and a lot of the dialogue is pretty sharp as well. Minnie is a lovely character, so vulnerable and human, and Charlie is… complicated.
I can’t really go into what I loved about this one without getting all spoilery. Suffice it to say, that everything comes together in a beautifully satisfying way. That is not to say that it’s necessarily a happy ending, or a predictable one, but it is a fairly perfect one.
But somehow, Darkness didn’t quite fully click with me. I’ve asked myself repeatedly why, if I loved pretty much everything about it, I can’t just start throwing happy neurons at it like Mardi Gras beads.
I think that the answer lies in the pacing. I feel like too many parts of this book got dragged down in speculation about what is happening/why it’s happening/who are you/who am I/why am I here/what is happening/why is this happening and so on. Don’t get me wrong, a fair amount of all that was necessary, especially in the end, when it all came together and was fully explained. But I don’t tend to have a lot patience with sci-fi-type world-building, and I think that some of that could have been trimmed down in ways that would have made Darkness even better.
The Nerd’s Rating FOUR HAPPY NEURONS (and a flashlight. Because damn the darkness can be scary.)
I read a lot of sci-fi, and I frequently pick up books when I find them at a good price, but they build up on my as I have little time to read. This one I started right away, and once I got about 2 pages into it, I couldn't put it down. I skipped lunchtime walks at work to sit in the cafeteria and read. Read it before bed, and every free moment. I don't often find a book so good I can't put it down. This book was an insane premise, totally nuts, and I loved every last moment of it. Charlie and Minnie had me mesmerized. Every time I thought I had a clue what was going on and how they could find their happily ever after, everything changed, generally for the worse, as they got deeper and deeper into an odd predicament, then a very odd relationship (not being physically present with the other is nothing new in the internet age, but this was a BIT different.) then finally into mortal danger. I had no idea how Charlie could get the girl, save the girl, save himself.
I've already recommended this to a couple of friends... and now to you. What are you waiting for? Start reading!
This book is definitely unusual, and I mean it in a good way. It's a story that will take you on a roller coaster ride - and it will take you places you may not want to go... However, it's a book I couldn't put down as I had to know what would happen next!
This review is harder to write as I can't really say too much without giving anything away that could spoil your enjoyment in reading it for yourself. The surprises, twists, and turns? You NEED to read this for yourself!!
What made this a good read and kept me going? Well, it has elements of sci-fi, horror, supernatural or metaphysical, romance, and even a thriller... The different elements are woven together into an amazingly seamless tale. The characters are very well-developed so that you care about them and what they are going through. Also, we learn as the characters learn about the situation... and this keeps suspense building! Luke Smitherd has you feeling the range of emotions as the characters. I was confused in the beginning, and then later I was dying of curiosity. Further in, I was feeling disgust for the "villain" and a bit creeped out by his smooth ways of being bad... I was cheering for Charlie Wilkes and Minnie Cooper... the ending... Didn't see it coming like that! Any way, the point is this it's a different story that immerses you into a strange new "world"(s)... The characters and the story definitely drew very visceral reactions from me, and some parts were quite macabre or even horrific... Yet, there is the other side of two people finding each other under the weirdest circumstances!
Read the book and ignore the cover and the synopsis... As you read, just roll with the story - and make sure you have the complete Dark Room saga! This story is hard to describe and hard not to ponder once it reaches the end...
I was given a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. I found it harder to write this review with all the elements as well as some things a character does is just so terrible I needed a moment... Then again, the story and other characters are compelling enough us to hope the villain gets what he deserves... Not many stories can get you to feel so strongly as we progress through the very end. It is different - and it still has me thinking about it! I will definitely read more of this author's work!
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