Review: Interesting (& free), but be ready to buy the rest of the story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 12, 2014
In the Black Room (part one of The Black Room) is free on Amazon.  But since this book is really just part 1 of the WHOLE book (The Black Room, see below), it is essentially like getting an Amazon sample before deciding whether or not to buy the whole book.The Black Room, Part 1 - 86 pages -- $0.00The Black Room, Part 2- 91 pages -- $0.99The Black Room, Part 3 - 69 pages -- $0.99The Black Room, Part 4 - 187 pages -- $0.99I read Luke Smitherd's first two books (The Stone Man and Physics of the Dead), so I was fairly certain I would like this book, too - and indeed I did (and so bought and am now reading part 2).  Like those two books, this book also throws two strangers together in very unusual and highly imaginative circumstances.  (I believe that characterization and imagination are the strongest points of Smitherd's books.)But be warned that The In the Black Room ends quite abruptly - though, based on part 2, it does end at a logical place with respect to the whole story.