#BlogTour: Darkness Comes by John Lynch @jlynchauthor @RandomTTours #DarknessComes #JohnLynch #RandomThingsTours

Book Synopsis:

Ted Bailey. Drug dealer. Arms salesman. Killer. There’s no way his soul can survive death. Is there?
But that decision is for God to make, not you. And what God values is not what they taught you in Sunday School.

Darkness Comes is available in ebook and paperback now. You can purchase your copy using the link below.

My Review:

Darkness Comes is a very clever, compelling read that is very thought provoking. It’s one of those reads which makes you think about it long after you’ve finished reading.

Firstly I really enjoyed how the author let’s the reader examine Ted’s life through the court case where he is on trial. Ted should be an extremely unlikeable character as he’s done some awful stuff but somehow the author manages to make the reader feel sympathy for him which I thought was very clever. I actually found myself hoping that thing turned out ok for him and he would get off the charges.

Through the court case the author takes the reader on a fascinating exploration about what is right and wrong. Is it still wrong if you do something bad for the right reasons or vice versa. Is it ever ok to break the rules? This is all things which are explored throughout the book and is something that I have continued to think about long after reading.

Overall I really enjoyed this entertaining read with some interesting, flawed characters who I quickly grew fond of. This book is really well written with an unusual storyline which makes it an easy read. This is the first book I’ve read by this author and I would definitely be there in reading more from this author.

Huge thanks to Anne Cater for inviting me onto the blog tour and for my copy of this book.

About The Author:

For 40+ years I was an international salesman; I’ve lived and worked on every continent except Antarctica. I was always a writer, though; the very first writing success I remember was standing on the stage of Benton Park Primary School in Newcastle upon Tyne at the age of ten, reading to the assembled school and parents a story I had written. It still gives me pleasure to know that one of my fellow pupils — a man I have dinner with once a year when I go back to Newcastle — was nagged all the way home that afternoon by his mother demanding, “Why can’t you write like John Lynch?” I sold my first freelance piece to Good Housekeeping Magazine in 1989 and that was a good year for me — it was also when I sold my first book to a publisher and my first short story to BBC Radio. (It’s called Bird and you can listen to it on my blog). My mother, the daughter of a Durham miner who first went down the pit when he was 12 years old, was proud that her son had a story on the radio — but even prouder that it was read by Clarrie Grundy from the long-running radio serial, The Archers. I’ve ghost written about 50 books that have been published in other people’s names (you’ll find a video about that on my Author Page) as well as writing my own work. As me, I write under two names: As R J Lynch for a series of five books set in County Durham (with one in the revolutionary American colonies) in the 1760s. As John Lynch for contemporary fiction and two non-fiction books.