Sunday, 17 February 2013

REVIEW - And With Madness Comes the Light (EIT #6.5) by Karina Halle


February 14 found me giving myself the best Valentine’s Day gift possible – Mr. Dex Foray.  And With Madness Comes the Light is an Experiment in Terror Novella (6.5) that covers Dex’s point of view of the events from the end of The Lying Season through to the end of On Demon Wings.  If you haven’t read the Experiment in Terror series yet, STOP. RIGHT. NOW.  And then… GO GET STARTED. Darkhouse is book one, and it is free on Smashwords.  This series is incredible, one of my all time faves, and I haven’t had one person read it that didn’t love it. 

Now. The best part of And With Madness Comes the Light? It’s Dex’s point of view. We get into that pervy and sarcastic mind of his, discovering his true thoughts and feelings and, let’s be honest, falling even more in love with the man.  He is deliciously tortured in this novella, more so than usual, and you will be his by the end, I swear.

Karina has done an amazing job, as always, capturing the thoughts and feelings of her characters.  The despair/anger/love/hate/depression/desire that is eating at Dex is fully palpable – reading this I was taken back to the instances where I have felt the same way, and those same feelings lived again with Dex.   It was so true, so real – she has that pain down perfectly.

For a novella, this packed in everything I need to be fully satisfied by a book. Five stars, get it, read it, love it, ‘nuff said. 


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