Dark Dweller by Gareth Worthington: A Review

 

Hello and welcome to my day of The Dark Dweller Book tour! Welcome friends and all newbies to my blog it's lovely to see you all. A big thank you to Vesuvian Media, Dropship Publishing and Black Crow PR for giving me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Now let's get on with the show

Plot Time: In deep space a helium mining freighter picks up a pristine escape pod with a teenage girl inside claiming to be the long dead Captain Kara Psomas who died 100 years ago and yet allegedly is now a teenager shot back across time to alter a mistake that will wipe out humanity.

This book is a mystery thriller wrapped up in the trappings of science fiction. A dark gritty mystery that flirts with the very concepts of life and death. To say I was obsessed would be the understatement of the century.

We are introduced to this story by Dr Sarah Dallas, The ships shrink who is tryign to hold a crew that hate her together and deal with this new person and the threat they may bring. Sarah is compassionate, lovable and also unrepentantly gay which was really great to see such casual inclusion. In fact the whole book has a diverse cast that makes it even more fun and remarkable. 

What follows is a tense interplay between Sarah and Kara as they try to establish the various facts whilst having to try to trust each other. The other crew members are just as out of their depth and the creepy AI Dona adds a real 2001 Space Odyssey vibe to precedings.

Overall I adored this book it was a bizarre twists on Sci/Fi and mystery with a philopsphical heart that will keep you up at night. This book is a extistential crisis in paper form. 10/10 would reccomend!!