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Restless Void: A Horror Novel
Tanya is a vlogger losing her grip on reality.
When a mysterious guy no one else can remember suggests a topic for her channel, her world starts to unravel. First, a friend sends her an inappropriate message and subsequently goes missing. Then, after touching a strange substance, her body starts to change. Her hand mutates into a monstrous claw, and she watches helplessly as it tries to kill her best friend.
Only Vanessa, survivor of RUSTED BLOOD, can help her make sense of what's happening. Together, the women head toward an uncanny destiny in a small town that shouldn't exist.
What awaits them there will shock you!
RESTLESS VOID continues two-time Splatterpunk Award-nominee Lucas Mangum's DIGITAL DARKNESS series and has echoes of David Cronenberg's VIDEODROME and Kiyoshi Kurosawa's PULSE.
When a mysterious guy no one else can remember suggests a topic for her channel, her world starts to unravel. First, a friend sends her an inappropriate message and subsequently goes missing. Then, after touching a strange substance, her body starts to change. Her hand mutates into a monstrous claw, and she watches helplessly as it tries to kill her best friend.
Only Vanessa, survivor of RUSTED BLOOD, can help her make sense of what's happening. Together, the women head toward an uncanny destiny in a small town that shouldn't exist.
What awaits them there will shock you!
RESTLESS VOID continues two-time Splatterpunk Award-nominee Lucas Mangum's DIGITAL DARKNESS series and has echoes of David Cronenberg's VIDEODROME and Kiyoshi Kurosawa's PULSE.
130 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 2, 2022
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March 27, 2022
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RESTLESS VOID is the second book in the planned three part DIGITAL DARKNESS series, where Lucas Mangum is pulling some of his previous work into the same universe.
The best description I can think of is that this is a techno horror – let’s say THE MATRIX with a supernatural element. It’s a little hard for me to rate it on an ‘extreme’ scale, though – THE GODS OF THE DARK WEB had such a shockingly sick scene – still one of the top five sickest scenes I’ve read – that this entry feels much more tame in comparison.
What has become quite clear is that Mr. Mangum has evolved a lot as a writer since his first published book, and maybe he can start relying more on the strength of the story and his writing skill than pushing the splatter side.
So, in this story:
Tanya is a vlogger.
Okay, for those of you who are a certain age, allow me to explain. A vlogger is someone who makes video blogs and posts it on the internet. These are the people who has the looks and charisma to appear on camera, so they provide content – either created by themselves or clever people who lacks the first two qualities – for fans all over the world.
As a side note, I just need to add that most of the youth today THINK they have it, so there are millions of vloggers out there, which means you can get the biggest shit your fragile little mind never even considered to be taken as fact. There are, however, some who knows what they are doing. And Tanya is one of the latter.
She has a show on mysterious disappearances. And a chance meeting with a stranger sends her down a rabbit whole where the consequences are dire and escape might be impossible.
And that’s where I am going to stop. You are on your own from there.
My thoughts on this story is that it is very well written and the people who loves techno will devour this. However, there are two things I need to point out.
The first is that this should be read in order. If you haven’t read the first book, you will more than likely become totally lost in this strange, upside down world.
The second is that this story has a complexity that needs your full attention. If your mind drifts for two pages, you will be lost and will have to backtrack to catch up again.
Overall, a really good book, which should tie together the series.
4 Stars
https://www.uncomfortablydark.com/bla...
RESTLESS VOID is the second book in the planned three part DIGITAL DARKNESS series, where Lucas Mangum is pulling some of his previous work into the same universe.
The best description I can think of is that this is a techno horror – let’s say THE MATRIX with a supernatural element. It’s a little hard for me to rate it on an ‘extreme’ scale, though – THE GODS OF THE DARK WEB had such a shockingly sick scene – still one of the top five sickest scenes I’ve read – that this entry feels much more tame in comparison.
What has become quite clear is that Mr. Mangum has evolved a lot as a writer since his first published book, and maybe he can start relying more on the strength of the story and his writing skill than pushing the splatter side.
So, in this story:
Tanya is a vlogger.
Okay, for those of you who are a certain age, allow me to explain. A vlogger is someone who makes video blogs and posts it on the internet. These are the people who has the looks and charisma to appear on camera, so they provide content – either created by themselves or clever people who lacks the first two qualities – for fans all over the world.
As a side note, I just need to add that most of the youth today THINK they have it, so there are millions of vloggers out there, which means you can get the biggest shit your fragile little mind never even considered to be taken as fact. There are, however, some who knows what they are doing. And Tanya is one of the latter.
She has a show on mysterious disappearances. And a chance meeting with a stranger sends her down a rabbit whole where the consequences are dire and escape might be impossible.
And that’s where I am going to stop. You are on your own from there.
My thoughts on this story is that it is very well written and the people who loves techno will devour this. However, there are two things I need to point out.
The first is that this should be read in order. If you haven’t read the first book, you will more than likely become totally lost in this strange, upside down world.
The second is that this story has a complexity that needs your full attention. If your mind drifts for two pages, you will be lost and will have to backtrack to catch up again.
Overall, a really good book, which should tie together the series.
4 Stars
March 18, 2022
This is an awesome digital horror tale. It's not often that I rate a sequel higher than the original story but it was definitely the case with this part of the series. It's a worthy sequel. (I wrote a review on the first book of this trilogy, Rusted Blood, in which I mentioned the potential this story has. I'm glad I kept up with Mangum!) Part II picks up some time after the end of the first. We meet new characters, while following the fate of the survivor of the previous part. There are a lot of new developments in the story, and I do mean A LOT: this part is chock-full of surprises, but beyond the expected gruesome violence, the characters are also well-written (as usual, for Mangum). It goes dark very fast. Definitely worth the read.
March 28, 2022
Restless Void is the second book in Lucas Mangum’s Digital Darkness series, and it is absolutely riveting. Once I picked it up, I could not put it down, didn’t even want to (except maybe at that one part where I kind of wanted to run screaming from the room).
This is an intense story about Tanya, a vlogger who gets caught up in the horrors we first saw in Rusted Blood (Digital Darkness Book 1), and it takes place after the events in Rusted Blood, so you do need to read that one first to understand and fully experience this book. The synopsis blurb is a tease, a dry outline of what the story really delivers, so don’t necessarily base your interest on it. Restless Void is complex and vivid, full of suspense and horror and disturbing imagery, everything one expects from Lucas Mangum.
And, of course, it has fantastic characters and characterization. As always, Lucas Mangum delivers complex and believable characters who have individual and varied traits and personalities. The character interaction is flowing and realistic and is one of the things that makes this book so engrossing. Other things that make it engrossing include the suspense, the horrors, and Mangum’s incredible writing style.
This is an intense and riveting read. I dare say I like this book even more than the first one. Can hardly wait for the next one.
This is an intense story about Tanya, a vlogger who gets caught up in the horrors we first saw in Rusted Blood (Digital Darkness Book 1), and it takes place after the events in Rusted Blood, so you do need to read that one first to understand and fully experience this book. The synopsis blurb is a tease, a dry outline of what the story really delivers, so don’t necessarily base your interest on it. Restless Void is complex and vivid, full of suspense and horror and disturbing imagery, everything one expects from Lucas Mangum.
And, of course, it has fantastic characters and characterization. As always, Lucas Mangum delivers complex and believable characters who have individual and varied traits and personalities. The character interaction is flowing and realistic and is one of the things that makes this book so engrossing. Other things that make it engrossing include the suspense, the horrors, and Mangum’s incredible writing style.
This is an intense and riveting read. I dare say I like this book even more than the first one. Can hardly wait for the next one.
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