6/2/2023 0 Comments Dark Silence by Rick Hautala![]() ![]() ![]() Didn't enjoy it at all, and will avoid other books by Hautala. I did read - skim - all the way to the end I saw some of the later events, but it didn't change my opinion. There's nothing in his behavior that shows it, though. ![]() ![]() And a _lot_ of tell-not-show - as far as I got we are told over and over that Samael wants to reform, or will want to. Claire's obsession with him doesn't read like love - it reads much more like he's controlling her, though he says he's not (but demons lie). But the thing that made me stop reading and start skimming was that Samael, unlike demons in most urban fantasies, is not depicted as a reasonably good guy with a nasty job - he truly enjoys seeing, and causing, pain. Once she finds out, there are more reminders of stuff that we-the-readers know that one or more characters doesn't. The foreshadowing (if you can call it that) is extremely heavy-handed - in the first couple chapters, we are reminded over and over (and over and over and.) that Samael is a demon and that Claire doesn't know. Not just the sex (though that was explicit and weird), but, for instance, a detailed description of someone vomiting. The descriptions are vivid and explicit - of things I really don't want to read about. ![]()
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