So first of all, I think Karina Halle is amazing and her Experiment in Terror series is without a doubt one of my favorite series EVER so I was suprised myself when I struggled with this book.The struggle though was more on a personal level, than directly related to a bad story line or characters...
Okay so I loved the writing ! When I was reading I was so enthralled in the story that I would look up from my kindle and realize where I was! That's how good the writing was ! The only problem that I had was with Perry! Okay so this book was supposed to be Adult and it was everything but ! To m...
This is our first ever review posted so hope I do it justice.Even though I thoroughly enjoy reading erotic romance, I was hesitant to read this book based on the synopsis. The idea of an older married, successful man getting involved with a younger, single, tattooed woman didn’t appeal too much,...
3.5 starsVery much a middle book. It can't be read as a stand alone & didn't grab me the way the first one did. The plot felt like a long road trip and just when all the players finally meet up (in Mexico!) the book ends with a mega cliffhanger. Grr. Still, I'm very interested in the 3 main chara...
I highly recommend reading this book prior to Sins and Needles. Everything would make sense. On every street is such a beautiful tragedy. So raw and soulful that I could not take my mind of it for a very long time. This trilogy is about evolution. I fell in love with Javier from when ,, the time...
Just when you think things can't get more exiting in this series, get ready for Karina Halle to blow your socks off with Bold Tricks. Ellie, Camden, and Javier's journey comes full circle in this epic, heart-pounding, action-packed finale to a series that totally rocks. They face insurmountable...
Pretty scary setting (could have been scarier though), nice story BUT it does have its issues:***SPOILER**** if you introduce the idea of abortion in the same book - out of the blue one might say - it is kind of obvious that it will play a huge role; entering Madeleine & the dream from the first ...
4.25Wow Karina Halle does it again. She can turn a train wreck into something good. It takes a real talent to write about horrible people and make you love them and want the best for them. This is not for the faint of heart, honestly though most of the really bad things aren't in your face as you...
THIS BOOK ENDED WITH A GAME-CHANGING CLIFFHANGER. I’M FEELING SO SATISFIED THAT THIS IS JUST GETTING BETTER AND BETTER. JUST MAKE SURE YOU READ DEVILS SERIES (IF YOU HAVEN’T YET) BEFORE YOU START THIS FOR THERE ARE SOME REFERENCES TO THE CHARACTERS IN THE DEVIL’S METAL AND THE DEVIL’S REPRISE IN ...
I'm struggling even giving this 3 stars after giving a well deserved 5 stars to the previous book. It was tough to get through and so far off the path content wise. From ghosts to a kangaroo big foot. The development of the story about Mitch was lame, predictable and fell flat. There were a ...
Loved it!!We learned about what happened to Max and Dex in college and how they met . We also learn about what happened to Dex's mother. It was kind of sad, but I would be scared too if I was in his situation.I did feel for Dex but what he did was bad, I mean he can't always fall back on his chil...
So, I'm not really going to drag this out and write a long review. The book was 44 pages that flew by way too fast and made me long for more and that's the only reason I'm only giving it 4 stars. However, it's Dex and Perry and I love them and always want so much more of them so of course it was ...
Oh my goodness. Karina Halle - you bitch!! And I mean that in the nicest possible way. What an ending. Oh my goodness, everything is normal and in one solitary sentence, she slaps us with a cliffhanger.Where's the next book?!I found this really interesting, I know what the blurb says, but eve...
I really hate giving this novella two stars because this series is so great! But, if I'm being honest with myself, this short story was 'just ok' to me. I found The Dex Files, also told from Dex's POV, as very enlightening to his character. We really got to see inside the man of mystery. In this ...
This is a zombie story - sort of - with a bit of romance too.Set in 1851, Eve whose heritage is both white and Indian is asked to join an expedition into the mountains with a group of men due to her tracking skills.The money offered persuades Eve's Uncle with whom she lives that this is a brillia...
Javier’s voice cut into my thoughts like a drill. I blinked at the dry, rough desert of Arizona as it flew past my window, trying to remember what was happening. This wasn’t a dream, this wasn’t a scenario; this was real. I was in the back of an SUV driven by a thuggish man and the ex-boyfriend o...
In a few minutes it will pass over the river and hit me, and the music festival, head on. It’s like I’m conjuring it up myself, the elements matching my mood, instead of being a typical late summer thunderstorm. I didn’t bring a jacket or an umbrella and I have no idea whe...
I can feel the man in the seat next to mine subtly elbowing me until I turn my head and glance up at the flight attendant. She’s nodding at the nearly finished glass of Mai Tai on my tray table, the very reason why my response time is epically slow. “Uh, almost,” I tell he...
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Perhaps that was a bad analogy, but I felt almost supernatural as I managed to clock record speeds while somehow avoiding every single speed trap there was out there. I was motherfucking Batman and timing seemed to be on my side—I just hoped it would be as kind to Perry. I texted Ada as I drove, ...
Dex said as he adjusted the settings. Rebecca flashed the light on me. I was standing in the middle of the death chute. I was already fucking scared. After the two of them came up with a shot by shot plan for the rest of the stay at the sanatorium, the three of us heated up some microwave meals, ...
There’s real y nothing worse than riding in the rain and even though you’d think I would be used to it from living in the Pacific Northwest and al , it stil sucked. But it suited my mood, suited the level of defeat I felt from the meltdown with the customer. How could I have been careless, to let...
Maybe it was good that I hadn’t brought Justine back to the apartment after Aida was over. It hadn’t been my plan to shag her anyway. I mean the whole date was made on behalf of our parents. I’m not sure why my father thought anything would come from it and I’m not really sure why I went along wi...
I was still haunted but by less terrible things.There was the time I saw twin boys appear behind me when I was walking home from Stäva’s. They never said anything, they just stood there with their pale faces and stared at me. It made me uneasy, to put it mildly, and they followed me down the road...
my mother said. I looked up from my plate to her blank stare, always wondering how she could sense such things. It must have been motherly instinct. “I’m just not very hungry,” I admitted, pushing the chicken around on my plate, my head and heart heavy as if someone had op...
Perry asked from beside me, taking in the sights of the city. They weren’t too pretty at the moment. Granville Street was Vancouver’s entertainment district, which meant street punks with suspiciously acquired dogs, pushy homeless people, jonesing drug addicts and stumbling, drunken idiots in Tap...
She had been the love of my life. When I first came to Mexico, all those years ago, I wasn’t sure what I was looking for. I had grown disillusioned with the American government, destroyed by the war. My leg still hurt from the explosion in Afghanistan and I hurt somewhere ...
In front of me lay a dark and undulating land lit by the icy power of a full moon. There were no clouds in the night sky but there was a strong wind that came from invisible origins and ruffled my hair till it was blowing behind me like a flag. I was in bare feet, just inches from falling into th...
I joked, shaking my head.“You and Dex will go up to the mountains, spending a few days there chasing around some llamas and maybe you’ll get footage of a bear or something. I don’t know. But it’s something and I want it to happen. And it’s a job. And, last time I looked, Bigfoot wasn’t a ghost.”“...
With him out of the picture, everything would be smooth sailing for me and Gemma.But that’s not the case. Something happened, something I can only seem to pinpoint to the boat ride on Milford Sound, when Gemma switched off. She grew cold and withdrawn. At first I thought it was toward Amber as we...
But when I came to and sat up slowly, I realized I was alone. Perry had gotten her stuff and moved down to a room on the first floor. I didn’t have her anymore. I had nobody. I glanced at the radio alarm clock in the room. It was 3AM. I wasn’t surprised at all. The room wa...
Kiddo, you awake?” Dex’s voice entered my dreams and a light knock at the door brought my eyes open. I was on my back, in bed, in the small, dark den, trying to recall the fragments of the dream I just had. Jacob was in it, again. Jacob and Dr. Freedman. “Perry?” The door knob turned and Dex ente...
Free falling, kind of like Tom Petty, if Tom Petty was signing about falling into the fiery pits of Hell. Maybe he was, I don’t know. All I saw was the black, all I could grab was handfuls of nothing. All I felt was evil, waiting to sink its teeth i...
My legs were spread out in front of me, my back was propped up at an unnatural angle against a rugged, scratchy pine tree. My arms were pulled back behind the trunk and tied together. The rope went around my shoulders and waist a few times too. I couldn’t move if I wanted to. I didn’t know where ...
For a moment, I can’t tell if I’m dreaming or not. Lachlan’s thick Scottish brogue has this way of invading my dreams, blurring the line between fantasy and reality. But, hey, how many people can say the man of their dreams is the man of their life? Even when I wake up, I’m acutely aware of how l...
You’d think that being out in the open like that, with the world watching if it looked through the darkness, would make you more vulnerable. But we were only vulnerable with each other, not to the supernatural. At least that’s what I told myself. On...