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Careview is Not A Nice Place to Visit... Apr 07, 2009
By C. J. McKee
"RhythmHippy"
Let alone live there. Temptation is the greatest challenge in this fine town. Every thirty one years, someone makes a horrible mistake - and the residents in Careview pay for it with their very lives.
Dark Worlds: Project 31 reaches deep into those dark places in the night and in your head and drags them across the asphalt. It is a mind trip through the real world, in your dreams, and into the depths of the underworld!
Zack Daggy presents his story and the characters in a way that both urges you to read on, but scares you enough to close the book and hope you can go to sleep. The book reaches out to you and grabs you -- literally!
When you read this book, make sure you leave the lights on. All of them. During the day. I look forward to reading the next installment of the Dark Worlds Trilogy!
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Riveting Apr 04, 2009
By W. G. Taylor
Dark Worlds Book 1: Project 31 by Zack Daggy is a psychological crime-fiction that is action oriented, intelligent, and surprising. Note to self, must stay away from the town of Careview, but, in the meantime, I will have to wait patiently for the next installment. Dark Worlds is a must buy for Easter, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Graduations--any day!
--Melinda Taylor (IndiRose)
 Creepy and full of suspense May 16, 2009
By Valorie T.
"Morbid Romantic"
Zack Daggy's Dark Worlds: Project 31 is book one in what is to be a three part horror series. In Project 31, nightmares become real in the city of Careview as demons use the earth as a personal battleground and take over humans to act as fleshly vessels to give them and their shades physical forms. Because of a drug, a form of heroin called Shadow, humans are more susceptible to possession by a shade. And because demon lords are too strong to step into earth as they are, they must seek out a body to use to enter earth. In 1977, an attempt to give a demon bodily form to destroy it ended in disaster and began a chain of events that culminate in 2008 when ancestors are faced with stopping the rising of a powerful demon named Cervenoko, who has unleashed her shades to aid in her rise to power.
Involved in this is Jimmy, the product of a family secret and an ex-alcoholic medical worker who watched his mother get killed by shades as a child. Then there is Lilly, who works in a diner and has special powers. Also important is Casey, an older man who has psychic powers that he tries to use for good... in his own way. Of course, we can't forget Allison, the serial killer of serial killers who sells Shadow on the side. Each one of them has a connection to the events of 1977 and must `return' to the moment to try to stop the rise of Cervenoko. At least, that's what some of them think is going to happen...
The thing that sticks out the most about this book is how much it reads like a movie script. The dialogue, the descriptions, and the actions sequences all have the style of a script. There were times when reading that I would stop and think how that scene would play out if I were watching it on a screen. Someone needs to alert Fangoria or Rue Morgue now. Project 31 doesn't have a lot of in-depth and overly completely internal dialogue and reflection, at least none done in such a way that it couldn't be portrayed visually. I really do think that this book would be perfect for film adaptation, and without a lot of reworking and editing of the plot to get the film elements right. In fact, I think some of it would be better were it a visual and not words. Some of the descriptions about bodies splitting open and becoming strange creatures would work better on the screen, definitely.
Project 31 is a fast paced and nightmarish book, playing with themes of humanity, the human soul and conscience, and the lengths people will go to get what they want. It's about human weakness and our natural fallibility, as well as the evil that is in some people. Project 31 full of action and suspense, with a few twist and turns along the way. The details of the past are revealed slowly, so the tension builds behind a wall of unfurling mystery, only to explode into a climactic ending rather than a steady uncoil.
Read it in 4 1/2 hours after it arrived May 13, 2009
By Susan Deborah Brown
"Randomnimities"
Horror has never really been my genre of choice. However, for this book, I will make an exception. I was curious when I first heard of it and read the teasers on Zack Daggy's website. (http://whatisproject31.com) When it arrived at my door, I opened the box and instantly started reading. Four and a half hours later, I realized I had finished the entire thing. I can't wait for the sequels. Definitely worth reading!
Don't Plan on Sleeping Tonight! Mar 31, 2009
By Carlin Comm
"Author and Creative Genius"
Inky shadows dancing are not my friends this night... weaving threads together from the darkness as I am dragged into the Dark Worlds.
The microwave blinks its red eyes at me, the mug of hot cocoa is little defense against this chilling trek into the mind of Zack Daggy.
I read this book in one sitting... I hadn't planned on reading it all the first night, but I was hooked... and I was just a little bit afraid to turn the light off! Finally, the sun was coming up, as I read the last page...
Awesome!
Carlin Comm,
Author of "Desert Storm Diaries - Letters From Home"
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