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At Night
Twenty-three-year-old Freya Flynn is a girl with a troubled past. She also has a strange hobby – at night, when the city sleeps, she likes to walk. Bad things happen at night. Bad people come out at night. And those bad people had better pray that they don’t run into Freya Flynn, because Freya is on a mission to punish the wicked…. Freya’s past is about to catch up with her, in the form of a threatening letter from persons unknown. This person knows all about her past and what she does on her night walks. This person is also making sick and twisted demands of her, and if she doesn’t complete the disturbing tasks that they have set, then someone close to her will die. Who is the mysterious letter-writer, and how far will Freya go to protect the people she has come to care about? This is extreme horror, please proceed with caution.
- GenresHorror
96 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 31, 2017
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Sam West
62 books234 followersSam West is a British, extreme horror author with more than forty books to her name. If you like your fiction dark, gritty, gory, perverse and truly terrifying, then you're in the right place.
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October 24, 2022
Wowza, Freya is one helluva character. Tragic and dark, yet intriguing and resilient. Female empowerment at its best here! And the amazing thing is while this is a very quick read, it covered quite a bit of development on our protagonist. Sam West kept the story complex enough to keep the reader's attention, but stopped short of introducing too many factors, knowing that she wouldn't be able to cover it all a certain way. There isn't a ton of action, but it wasn't necessary. The story focused on opening up this character and her motives and this dim world she exists in. As she struggles with her two roles, one as a regular person, and another as a nighttime vigilante. West also did something really great here in showing the trauma from her past not allowing her to open up to anyone, having some form of a personality disorder, and, despite her obvious beauty, hating how she looked. Not just disliking it, but truly hating her appearance. Great touches! And the ending is conclusive in one way, but completely open-ended in many others. And I, for one, want to see more of Freya. She is like a raw nerve now. An uncage animal. And I want to join her as she seeks vengeance and a satisfaction to her bloodlust. Now I liked Jim. A lot. He was exactly what Freya needed to diffuse a bit and let her guard down for once. But his development felt really incomplete and rushed. As did a few of the other characters. Like once I felt like I was getting comfortable with some of them, they were dead. So I do wish that the story was a bit longer, as to allow room for some additional expansion of the supporting cast. But otherwise, this was awesome.
January 29, 2022
Freya (what a name, had to think about the goddess) prowls her town at night to punish men trying to sexually harass women. Well, tables turn when she gets letters from a stalker. Who is he and why is he stalking Freya? is the riddle hidden in her past? Well composed twisty tale with the typical shots of Sam West's brutality. Was a bit too slow in the middle (also the scenes with Lucy and Jim) but the end was very strong. Another variety of the Bogeyman myth. Recommended!
May 12, 2021
This was a cool extreme horror story!
A small backstory:
Freya Flynn has an unusual hobby that takes her out into the night seeking out men that are up to no good and that like to take advantage of unwilling women. Freya blends in with the shadows as she walks around the city providing her own brand of justice.
What she doesn't know is that someone is onto her as she starts receiving anonymous letters wanting her to perform certain tasks or they will let the truth be known of what she is doing. She decides to go along with what the letters say to do up to a certain point as she has plans for this person and she is going to figure out how to get out of it one way or another.
Thoughts:
This was a short story, but it packed a wallop of suspense and tension within its pages. I have read this author before so I knew I was in for a treat with this book. Parts of the book have extreme elements but this book is mild compared to what I have read by this author before.
The pace is fast and the story rolls right along at a quick clip. There was a major twist near the end of the book that I did not see coming which accelerated this book up to full throttle. Giving this one four "Revenge" stars!
A small backstory:
Freya Flynn has an unusual hobby that takes her out into the night seeking out men that are up to no good and that like to take advantage of unwilling women. Freya blends in with the shadows as she walks around the city providing her own brand of justice.
What she doesn't know is that someone is onto her as she starts receiving anonymous letters wanting her to perform certain tasks or they will let the truth be known of what she is doing. She decides to go along with what the letters say to do up to a certain point as she has plans for this person and she is going to figure out how to get out of it one way or another.
Thoughts:
This was a short story, but it packed a wallop of suspense and tension within its pages. I have read this author before so I knew I was in for a treat with this book. Parts of the book have extreme elements but this book is mild compared to what I have read by this author before.
The pace is fast and the story rolls right along at a quick clip. There was a major twist near the end of the book that I did not see coming which accelerated this book up to full throttle. Giving this one four "Revenge" stars!
May 10, 2021
From the book description I was excited about the blackmail letters. They sounded super great but kinda turned into a letdown. The story itself was solid, but the blackmail letters only made one request that turned out to not really work.
The thought of someone having dirt on you and threatening you is an exciting storyline.
Fans of these types books would enjoy the story despite it not being as bloody as West's other books
The thought of someone having dirt on you and threatening you is an exciting storyline.
Fans of these types books would enjoy the story despite it not being as bloody as West's other books
November 3, 2018
A hard core chick
So Freya is no victim.
Sam West takes the time to humanize her so the reader can understand her reasoning and motivation. So that, ultimately, the reader can like her and justify her evil deeds. As a woman, I loved the story (as I do most of everything West writes) but I had to ask myself how a man felt reading this story: Did he sympathize like I did with Freya or did he sympathize with her victims? Did he understand why those men deserved it just as much as Freya’s attacker? What about the final act of revenge? Did Freya deserve what came to her? Did it justify who she really believed she had become?
So many questions!!!
At the end of the day, if you are thirsting for a bad ass chick revenge tale, pick this one up.
So Freya is no victim.
Sam West takes the time to humanize her so the reader can understand her reasoning and motivation. So that, ultimately, the reader can like her and justify her evil deeds. As a woman, I loved the story (as I do most of everything West writes) but I had to ask myself how a man felt reading this story: Did he sympathize like I did with Freya or did he sympathize with her victims? Did he understand why those men deserved it just as much as Freya’s attacker? What about the final act of revenge? Did Freya deserve what came to her? Did it justify who she really believed she had become?
So many questions!!!
At the end of the day, if you are thirsting for a bad ass chick revenge tale, pick this one up.
January 23, 2018
The read was awesome but the ending was a little disappointing. Ended a little too quick. I could see this turning into a large novel. I loved the characters and all they gave to the story. It was creepy, gory, and triumphant.
September 22, 2017
Good book
This book was good, the story held.me the whole way until the end.
I was expecting a decent fight for freedom but it's as if the author got bored and just cut straight to the chase, tiny bit of a let down.
This book was good, the story held.me the whole way until the end.
I was expecting a decent fight for freedom but it's as if the author got bored and just cut straight to the chase, tiny bit of a let down.
September 12, 2020
Freya was in her element walking at night, exacting revenge for past abuses. She ruled the night - until she didn't.
Another excellent read from Sam West and another marathon read for me.
Another excellent read from Sam West and another marathon read for me.
February 8, 2021
Good
Good little book that was very well written with some great characters that you actually cared about. Good twist too.
Good little book that was very well written with some great characters that you actually cared about. Good twist too.
January 7, 2022
I am the bogeyman. I don’t exist.
As a twenty three years old, Freya Flynn should of been living the carefree life of any other young woman, but instead found herself locked inside a cage, banging her head against the wall as she tried to save herself. Living proof of a horrific childhood in foster care, she was carelessly passed from abuser to abuser, never truly being safe no matter the families or caregivers she received. When she was only thirteen, she was raped for the first time and became the victim of the system. At eighteen, she was raped a second time and kidnapped, becoming a casualty of random chances. Snatched off the street on her stumble home from a night club while a freshman in college, she found herself eye to eye with a man with no true human heart within his chest. Dale Bentley was her abductor, and had been wrong in his adventures for past years. Chaining her to the floor in his basement, he subjected her to horrors, raping and defiling her, but never truly breaking the resilient spirit cast within. Two weeks into her month long potential capture, police arrived on scene and executed the man and setting her free. Now as she finds herself isolated and wary of human touches and intricate emotions, she found herself finally letting people in.
“.... But you have to remember, we are so much more than a product of our childhood. We can’t let the past define who we are now.”
Opening herself up to strangers never came easily for the young woman, yet she feels her icy resolve melting as her coworkers began u leashing something she never understood. Horrified to find herself wanting to make friends following her regal composure to remain isolated, she felt a companionship towards Lucy. As the nights waned closer, she turned towards being a saving grace to other woman by brutally attacking their soon to be rapists, before fleeing into the shadows again. With the introduction of Jim, a delivery man to the company she works for, she sees a future blooming with him, before the letters started appearing. Baiting her, taunting her, forcing her hand to save her friends she’s making. With a drunken encounter that lead it Lucy kissing her, Lucy vanished without a trace that night and as she tried to figure out what was going wrong she found herself slipping into love.
“... We all have darkness within us, Freya.”
After taking up the offer of the frail, cancer surging older woman, Jean, from work, she agreed to dinner with the lonely widow against a all her better judgement. Seeing it as a promising movement towards her future, dinner seemed to be an exciting turn. As the two ladies toasted a bottle of wine, Freya found her head swimming before falling unconscious. Waking up horrified and confused, she saw Lucy’s amputated ankle served at the dinner table, with both Lucy and Jim tethered to chairs as well. Fighting against Jean, she sees it belongs to a man, the facade a lie the entire time. Shocked to see it as Shane Bentley, the father of her abductor, she sees her life crumbling. Watching him slit Jim’s throat, she sees herself cracking into something bulletproof. Stabbing him repeatedly, she scoops up the money beneath his mattress and takes off to become one with the shadows all over again.
I am the bogeyman. I don’t exist.
As a twenty three years old, Freya Flynn should of been living the carefree life of any other young woman, but instead found herself locked inside a cage, banging her head against the wall as she tried to save herself. Living proof of a horrific childhood in foster care, she was carelessly passed from abuser to abuser, never truly being safe no matter the families or caregivers she received. When she was only thirteen, she was raped for the first time and became the victim of the system. At eighteen, she was raped a second time and kidnapped, becoming a casualty of random chances. Snatched off the street on her stumble home from a night club while a freshman in college, she found herself eye to eye with a man with no true human heart within his chest. Dale Bentley was her abductor, and had been wrong in his adventures for past years. Chaining her to the floor in his basement, he subjected her to horrors, raping and defiling her, but never truly breaking the resilient spirit cast within. Two weeks into her month long potential capture, police arrived on scene and executed the man and setting her free. Now as she finds herself isolated and wary of human touches and intricate emotions, she found herself finally letting people in.
“.... But you have to remember, we are so much more than a product of our childhood. We can’t let the past define who we are now.”
Opening herself up to strangers never came easily for the young woman, yet she feels her icy resolve melting as her coworkers began u leashing something she never understood. Horrified to find herself wanting to make friends following her regal composure to remain isolated, she felt a companionship towards Lucy. As the nights waned closer, she turned towards being a saving grace to other woman by brutally attacking their soon to be rapists, before fleeing into the shadows again. With the introduction of Jim, a delivery man to the company she works for, she sees a future blooming with him, before the letters started appearing. Baiting her, taunting her, forcing her hand to save her friends she’s making. With a drunken encounter that lead it Lucy kissing her, Lucy vanished without a trace that night and as she tried to figure out what was going wrong she found herself slipping into love.
“... We all have darkness within us, Freya.”
After taking up the offer of the frail, cancer surging older woman, Jean, from work, she agreed to dinner with the lonely widow against a all her better judgement. Seeing it as a promising movement towards her future, dinner seemed to be an exciting turn. As the two ladies toasted a bottle of wine, Freya found her head swimming before falling unconscious. Waking up horrified and confused, she saw Lucy’s amputated ankle served at the dinner table, with both Lucy and Jim tethered to chairs as well. Fighting against Jean, she sees it belongs to a man, the facade a lie the entire time. Shocked to see it as Shane Bentley, the father of her abductor, she sees her life crumbling. Watching him slit Jim’s throat, she sees herself cracking into something bulletproof. Stabbing him repeatedly, she scoops up the money beneath his mattress and takes off to become one with the shadows all over again.
I am the bogeyman. I don’t exist.
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