He seems committed to his girlfriend, oblivious to everything. She is completely in love with her partner and she hurts. Unable to deal with the trauma of these memories she supressed them with drugs, alcohol and therapy. Perry is haunted by dreams of a long forgotten past. I really can't deal with everything that book threw at us. Because in this book Perry is invited to live with Dex and his girlfriend in their apartment. An excuse for our heroes to live together and deal with their nightmares. In Lying Season the EIT is investigating the most notorious asylum in the Seattle area.Ī place haunted from the screams of the insane, the violence of the guards and the despair of everyone of them.īut the asylum is just a front. Her writing style pulls no punches and you witness everything like a train wreck coming your way, not able to tear your eyes away.

Normal, realistic plain people, you and me. Karina Halle strips her characters bare in front us, revealing them for what they are, no superheroes but lying and cheating bastards, manipulative bitches, moody and insane. Ghosts of the past they wish they’d left behind, ghosts of love they once turned down, ghosts of regret and ghosts of loss. Nothing more horrible than people, their interactions and the amount of pain and hurt they can inflict, with a single word or gesture.Įveryone has ghosts that follow them throughout their lives. Yes, there are ghost and encounters and possibly demons just like in the previous ones, but nothing compares to the human soul and the exposion of the inner-most thoughts and feelings. The 4th installment in the mindf*ckingly awesome Experiment in Terror series, is the scariest book of them all. By blood and by choice, we make our own ghosts we haunt ourselves.” Diana GabaldonĦ or maybe 7 SHOCKING & AMAZING & LYING Stars We look in the mirror and see shades of other faces looking back through the years we see the shape of memory, standing solid in an empty doorway. All the time the ghosts flit past and through us, hiding in the future. I can't think of a better way to start this review, than using my all-time favourite quote.

Lying Season by Karina Halle