Smorgasbord Book Promotions – Book Review – #Thriller – Darkness: SFV-1 Series – BOOK TWO by Terry Tyler

Delighted to share the news of the latest release from Terry Tyler... the second book in a gripping series. Darkness: SFV-1 Series – BOOK TWO

About the book

‘This isn’t all our lives are going to be. It’s the darkness before the dawn, that’s all.’

The SFV-1 virus leaves its victims with no instinct other than the need to kill – and eat.

Nine months after this strange new disease scorched a path across the world, Norah and her friends are doing their best to survive in rural Cumbria – but another, larger group is on a mission to ‘redistribute the wealth’ by whatever means they deem necessary.

Meanwhile, new arrivals on the Scottish island of John’s Drift seem friendly enough, but Cat’s group hears warning bells from the start…

‘People react to fear in all sorts of ways; a weak individual falls in with the wrong people, and hey presto: basic human decency loses the battle against that dark side you never knew was hiding inside your head.’

Darkness is the second book in the SFV-1 series. The next installment, Reset, will be available soon.

My review for the book August 5th 2023

Having read Infected, the first book in this new series, I was keen to read the second.The author has created such a visual and compelling world, it is difficult not to be drawn into this horrific, but all too plausible outcome of a rampant and indiscriminate virus that destroys the parts of the brain controlling our innate humanity.

As well as catching up with the previous characters, we are introduced to new survivors around the country and islands as they struggle to find food, water and other essentials needed for any reasonable expectation of life. We also discover how those determined to take any opportunity that presents itself to take from others, using any means necessary, are succeeding in their efforts.

Those still trying to survive in smaller groups are coerced or charmed into joining larger more established and fortified communities, not always with the outcomes they expected. More young people are left to fend for themselves and without the guidance of parents and other close relatives, align themselves with those who show the most strength rather than humanity. The rules have changed, and abiding by the socially acceptable behaviours of before the outbreak, will not be enough to save your life.

It is as if humans have devolved thousands of years in the space of a few months and anyone clinging to their humanity get swept away by violence and depravity.

In the background remnants of government are forming plans for the future, but with those who crave power front and centre in the reorganisation, recovery for those unwilling to toe the line is in jeopardy.

Meanwhile, smaller and more inclusive groups begin to come together, with not just survival, but a return to civilisation at the heart of their communities. All they can do is face the future together however uncertain that might be.

I am looking forward to finding out how these characters will develop in the final book in this series, and know from past experience with this author’s work, there will be more surprises. Recommended.

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A small selection of other books by Terry Tyler

 

 

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About Terry Tyler

I am self-published and proud to be so, and have twenty-two books on Amazon. My latest release is Where There’s Doubt, a psychological drama about a romance scammer and his victims. Other recent releases include Megacity, the final part in the dystopian Operation Galton trilogy – the follow-up to Hope and Wasteland – and The Visitor, a post-apocalyptic murder mystery set in the same world as my Project Renova series, but a separate story, with new characters.

Brewing in my mind I have another virus series (3 novellas, I think), another psych drama, and a dystopian stand-alone. Not sure which one to write next!

I’m a Walking Dead addict; I love watching great TV series, and reading anything to do with history, post apocalypse, dystopian scenarios, anthropology, mountaineering and polar exploration.

Favourite writers: Gemma Lawrence, Kate Mary, Blake Crouch, Deborah Swift, Carol Hedges, Douglas Kennedy, John Boyne, Deborah Moggach, Judith Arnopp, Mark Barry, Jon Krakauer, Phillipa Gregory, Robert Leigh, John Privilege, Dylan Morgan, Kate Atkinson, Norah Lofts, Dorothy Parker, Bill Bryson, PJ O’Rourke, Ann Swinfen, Keith Blackmore, Frank Tayell.

 

Thanks for dropping in today and I hope you will be leaving with some books… Sally.