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From Black Rooms

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Stephen Woodworth takes us back into the world of the Violets, genetically enhanced humans who serve as portals for the dead. This time around, heroine Natalie Lindstrom and her daughter Callie face evio from the Violet Killer, the serial killer who was murdering Violets and was captured by Natalie. But not until he killed her lover Dan.
Now the Killer is aiding a consortium of corps members who are trying to create violets using a serum concocted by the late Dr. Bartholomew Wax, who before he committed suicide had exterminated his test subjects. now the Corps plans to use a Violet to channel Wax and get him to complete his experiments.
An intriguing sideline in this book is the channeling of such famous artists including The Scream's Svink and even da Vinci and others. Woodworth keeps the plot moving and manages to make this incredible premise work for his readers.

I was lucky enough to come across Stephen Woodworth with his debut novel of Through Violet Eyes and I was hooked. I adored #1.

From Red Hands left me breathless and wanting more! I was terribly disappointed in The Golden Blood.

In From Black Rooms, Stephen is back on form. I was glad to see that Natalie was meeting someone else, although I really still haven't forgiven Woodworth for what he did to Dan.

One note for new readers of Woodworth's books: YOU MUST READ THEM IN ORDER OF PUBLICATION!!!!

I was very lucky to have started at the start and have always looked out for his books so I naturally followed the order. If you don't follow the sequence, you'll ruin the other books for yourself because the entire plot of each book is rehashed.

This is just the latest in a fantastic series. I am always left wanting more! The Violets cannot be ignored. I highly recommend this series and this book to anyone who likes suspense. You will receive it in buckets! I have already gotten several of my friends hooked as well! Perfect choice for those who like a combination of fantasy, occult, mystery, and the future. You should not be disappointed.

I sure hope that the author writes another book about the Violet Eyes, this book was absolutely fantastic. Great.

I love this Series I actually started reading them out of order But I have to say I Love the Storyline and the Characters. Reading These books are like watching a movie in your mind I love them

I absolutely loved the first three books of the Violet series. The stories were rich, full of drama and with many characters that made the story that much more interesting to read about. I have to say that Stephen's writing in this book was seriously lacking. The entire story seemed to drag on and on, until finally something semi-interesting would happen, only for it to go back to dragging on shortly afterwards.

While the whole concept of "gene therapy" made me really want to read this book, I feel that Stephen didn't do any proper research into this topic to even give himself some insight into how he could use the information to make his story better.

While some of the new characters introduced in this story were interesting and beneficial parts of the story, I feel like he didn't really explain why the "bad guy" was doing the things he was. Also, the ending was completely flimsy and pointless. I was really disappointed in this book. Stephen could have done so much more with this story.

I love this concept. I can't get over how Mr. Woodworth keeps revealing more and more about the Violets and how they function. I love how the series is progressing. He is really showing how full his characters are that he's developing and adding different characters for you to care about as he kills off others to make you feel it. I'm not going to write a plot summary since so many others have already did this. I will say that you need to read the previous books for you to get the complete picture of Evan. He's back and badder than ever. I loved the science of how a Violet works and how the brain nodes function. I didn't really like how fast the book wrapped up. I felt that Mr. Woodworth skipped over some things very quickly that I'm hoping he explains more in detail in his next book. I highly recommend this book and the series.

This series is good. If you like the other books you will like this one. The books follow each other well.

We've read all the Violet Eyes books and really enjoy them,this latest one was wonderful although not my favorite of the four we still enjoyed it greatly ..

So when will the next one be out,i can't find anything anywhere about a new Violet's book but Stephen's website says he's busy writing more books in the series .. anyone know anything ?

In this fourth installment of the popular Violet series, Stephen Woodworth takes on the worlds of art and science--and shows his own astonishing progress as a breakthrough creative talent.

Natalie Lindstrom, one of the rare conduits for the dead popularly known as "Violets" for their startling violet eyes, is using her long-neglected artistic talent to support her family by creating new artworks in collaboration with well-known deceased artists. A tempting but phony-sounding offer for freelance work as an art forger coincides with the news that the infamous "Violet Killer" is again on the loose, leading Natalie to her most dangerous discovery yet.

It seems that the scarcity of conduits for the dead has prompted the government to initiate a special project using gene therapy experiments to convert ordinary people into dead-talkers. Unfortunately, the "treatment" is far from flawless. One of the victims of this "therapy" is Calvin Criswell, an ex art-forger to whom Natalie is dangerously attracted.

This novel is Woodworth's most idea-rich work to date, which is saying a lot. The author shows masterful skill in weaving together a tight, action-packed plot with characters, both old and new, that the audience can love, laugh with and fear for.

One of the gifts of Woodworth's books is that you can pick up reading anywhere in the series without a problem. But fans of the series will appreciate the re-appearance of some of the most loved and loathed characters in the Violet world, plus a sly tribute to online Violet trackers. Through it all, Woodworth paints a brilliant canvas of art and science, love and hate, life, death and what comes after. A great read!