Available Darkness (Season 1, Episode 5) by Sean Platt and David Wright

Title: Available Darkness  (Episode 5)
Author: Sean Platt and David Wright
Series: Available Darkness (Season 1)
Publisher: Collective Inkwell
Read Type: Author request
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Season Blurb
From the writers of the post-apocalyptic smash hit serial, Yesterday's Gone, and Z 2134, comes Available Darkness, a new breed of vampire serial thriller.

The Darkness Has Awoken

FBI Special Agent Caleb Baldwin is on the hunt for a serial killer who has left a trail of burned bodies. One of those victims — his wife. As he gets closer to finding the killer, he falls deeper into an elaborate conspiracy.

A man wakes buried alive with no memory of who or what he is. In his pocket, a note: “Avoid the sunlight and don’t touch anybody.” Now he is being hunted by the FBI while trying to remember his monstrous past. He must control the darkness within before it consumes him and the child whose life he must protect.

11-year-old Abigail was dying slowly each day as the prisoner of a sick man. Until she is saved by the most unlikely of heroes — a vampire with a deadly touch. He is her only hope, and she may hold the key to unlocking the memories of his hidden past.

Past, present, fate, and future are on a collision course as the hours of AVAILABLE DARKNESS are ticking away and a force greater than anything the world has ever seen threatens humanity.

Available Darkness is an epic serialized journey that reinvents vampire mythology with a fast paced, character-driven thriller that blends action, mystery, fantasy, and horror in an addictive, tragically romantic story.


Author Bios
Sean Platt

Sean loves writing books, even more than reading them. He is co-founder of Collective Inkwell and Realm & Sands imprints, writes for children under the name Guy Incognito, and has more than his share of nose.

Together with co-authors David Wright and Johnny B. Truant, Sean has written the series Yesterdays Gone, WhiteSpace, ForNevermore, Available Darkness, Dark Crossings, Unicorn Western, The Beam, Namaste, Robot Proletariat, Cursed, Greens, Space Shuttle, and Everyone Gets Divorced. He also co-wrote the how-to indie book, Write. Publish. Repeat.




David W. Wright

David W. Wright is the co-author of the number 1 sci-fi and horror series, Yesterday's Gone, as well as six other series.

David is also a cartoonist who is working on a children's book.

David blogs about writing and stuff he likes at his personal blog, and about his books at Collective Inkwell.

He lives on the east coast with his wife, seven-year old son, and the world's most poopingest cat.






Review
Strong language: None
Drugs: None
Violence: Some, graphic
Sexual content: negligible

The authors gave out a free copy of season one of this serial in their newsletter as an apology for messing up details in the previous letter. I decided to read and review this. Despite having the entire first series, 6 episodes, at once in front of me, I will stick to no more than one a week the same as they are initially released in America.

You can find links to all of my review of the series at the Available Darkness Archive


Just like the last episode, this one is set in the past again. This time, however, things have moved on slightly and danger is at the door once more. John realises his only way to protect his life and the ones he loves is to go on the run. But it could never be that easy, it seems to protect them he may just have to break them in the process.

The FBI agent in this episode showed far more human traits of frustration and anger when he couldn’t get the clues to solve the hideous murders occurring in the country. His story arc in this episode was enormous, the change in him and the knowledge I gained possibly make him into one of my favourite characters. He showed compassion, violence, grief, anger and fear in a very real cycle as his world spun out of control. His background was also opened up much more. For the first time I felt sorry for him, rather than apathetic or sharing a very vague irritation with him.

This episode shared much more of John’s world of the supernatural. More characters came into play, as well as more knowledge of what the world around them held. I look forward to seeing this play out more.

Despite all the emotion, the action was once again full on. There was a mixture of arguments, car runs and fights. I think John’s partners reactions were the most realistic, as she realised she lived with a vampire… Or was he a lunatic? If you’re not a character in twilight, can you really just accept “I’m vampire, of sorts,”? he said. The cold, serious expression on his face sent a chill down her spine.

Well, I’ll let Hope answer that one for you: Holy shit, he IS crazy. I’m in love with a crazy person.

The end of the episode jumps back to the present, just before the start of the first episode as far as I can tell the timeline. John is a very changed man, he’s lost a lot in the intervening time. Yet, he finds himself facing an old adversary, and a deadly ultimatum.

In true fashion for these writers they’ve once again left me on a cliffhanger and I’m dying to read more.


The 411
while this episode was still set in the past, like the previous episode, the theme was closer to the first episodes in the series. There was more action, and I felt that many of the plot threads finally started to weave together so I have an idea where the story is going.

This episode also had some really emotional elements, something I’ve been looking for in some of the episodes.

I give this episode a good 4.5, adjusted to a four for reviewing sites