{"id":10692,"date":"2021-09-08T11:23:45","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T17:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=10692"},"modified":"2021-09-08T11:23:45","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T17:23:45","slug":"devouring-darkness-by-martyn-rhys-vaughan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=10692","title":{"rendered":"Devouring Darkness by Martyn Rhys Vaughan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Chilling, poignant, haunting, and thoroughly gripping\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Darkness, intrigue, and ambiguity mark Vaughan\u2019s deeply immersive latest, a collection of science fiction stories. Readers will relish the intelligent and chilling blend of irony and darkness in \u201cKeeping Pets is Fun\u201d as an alien race invades earth and begins to take humans for pets. Darkly humorous, \u201cShame the Devil,\u201d tells the story of a cheating husband who finds a way to beat even the smartest technology. The reader\u2019s heart will race and break right along with the lovely young protagonist, who remains in denial about her lover\u2019s intentions in \u201cThe Postcard\u201d as she tries to look into her future. Trying to fight the tyrannical ruling authorities in \u201cA Room with a View,\u201d the protagonist finds himself trapped in a room with a devastating view. The story\u2019s dystopian setting is aptly sketched, and the emotional conclusion will resonate with the reader. Hints that all is not as it seems, lead to astonishing revelations for the protagonist in \u201cA New Start,\u201d a short story set in a world in which a highly advanced technology has taken over the lives of the people. When a small software glitch occurs, it wreaks havoc on the protagonist\u2019s life, and he learns a shocking truth not only about his own existence but also about the world around him. Chilling and haunting, \u201cNo End to Tomorrow,\u201d tells the story of an aspiring writer, who finds himself becoming the experimental specimen for a shadowy scientific organization and comes face to face with serious, mind-numbing implications of his own mortality. In \u201cAngel and Demon,\u201d the protagonist finds a way to avenge his village. Vaughan\u2019s intelligent storytelling effortlessly weaves elements of horror and unease with a harrowing and surprising story in \u201cRetail pursuit,\u201d which tells the tale of one man struggle to come to terms with new imposing laws in the aftermath of a sweeping pandemic that has left the world\u2019s economy in tatters. There are life-and-death situations, acute darkness, poignant heartbreaks, uncertain future, longing, and death. Some stories are extremely short, less than a page in length whereas others cover quite a large portion of narrative. But all of them have uncertainty and disquiet as the dominant theme. Vaughan\u2019s storytelling is immersive as he digs deeper into a complex world and multifaceted characters, offering life-and-death maneuvering, deadly conspiracies, and looming catastrophe via swiftly unraveling plots. This is a stunner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Devouring Darkness<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Martyn Rhys Vaughan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cambria Books<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buy now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pub date August 16, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ISBN 978-1838428952<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Price $12.00 (USD) Paperback, $2.75 Kindle edition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chilling, poignant, haunting, and thoroughly gripping\u2026 Darkness, intrigue, and ambiguity mark Vaughan\u2019s deeply immersive latest, a collection of science fiction stories. Readers will relish the intelligent and chilling blend of irony and darkness in \u201cKeeping Pets is Fun\u201d as an alien race invades earth and begins to take humans for pets. Darkly humorous, \u201cShame the Devil,\u201d tells the story of a cheating husband who finds a way to beat even the smartest technology. The reader\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145610851,"featured_media":10693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[955],"tags":[7223,726,103272229,186388755,91,3328,178,1252,1136176,1473,1008073,856121,309,10615,546,567658,349],"class_list":["post-10692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-author","tag-authors","tag-authors-reviews","tag-authors-seeking-reviews","tag-blogging","tag-book-reviews","tag-books","tag-horror","tag-indie-books","tag-reading","tag-review-blog","tag-review-website","tag-reviews","tag-science-fiction","tag-short-stories","tag-short-stories-collection","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/devouring-darkness.jpg?fit=353%2C500&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pajKJn-2Ms","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/145610851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10692"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10706,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10692\/revisions\/10706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}