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Robert Friedrich is an Author who writes in a multitude of styles which include Novella's, Short Stories, Poetry and even Screenplays. His books are famous for taking an unconventional route through the darkest of places and emotions, and are generally driven by fast paced action and direct-from-heart dialogue. His current releases include: The Darkness Within: A Novella, Enlightened by Darkness Anthologies, The Book of Metal Lyrics and Seed of Evil, which is the first part of an entire up-coming Saga. Robert surprises his audience by how different, each of his book's tone, message is and how they are visually descriptive. He also designs his own book covers and trailers.
"A fictional Dystopia is better than a fake Utopia." -- Robert Friedrich
Reviewed by Lorena Sanqui for Readers' Favorite
James Roberts is the captain of a salvage ship called the “Lightark.” One night while roaming outer space for missing ships, they saw one the size of a Space Cruiser. The captain and his crew were surprised by their discovery because they were not notified of any missing ships, especially one that has close to 3,000 passengers in it. They decided to check this enormous vessel and were surprised when they found practically nothing wrong with it and it appeared that the ship was just abandoned. But what they thought was an easy job turned deadly when one by one the crew turns up dead. Only the captain survived and only he can tell what really happened in The Darkness Within: A Novella by Robert Friedrich.
The whole story was like walking through a nightmare. The captain's suffering was never-ending, with one obstacle after another. Then came the biggest, most surprising twist and slowly, it all made sense. I don’t know if the captain deserved being in that nightmare or if he was also a victim. I liked that the hero and villain were not exactly defined. The Darkness Within by Robert Friedrich may be a short story, but all the elements of horror were still there and were shown perfectly. It was scary and mysterious at the same time. A well written plot and good characters. This is a page turner I recommend to everyone who likes to read horror stories with a little gore, violence and abuse.
