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A review by chasingsilhouettes
House of Night by Celia Aaron
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
4.0
Audiobook review.
A dark gothic, horror-filled macabre romance(-esque).
It's sort of dual timelines. Most chapters are headed with a (mostly brief) recovered journal entry, and the body of the chapter is present day, but sometimes the past. It's not consistent. Via the audiobook, it's slightly confusing as it's fluid between the two and not nearly as distinct as it could be.
At first, the narrator's voice, when speaking for the vampires, is grating. Maybe it's supposed to be and adds to the drama, but for me, it was a bit chalk-board-like irritating and took a while to get used to.
Dr. Georgia Clark is a human captive in a dystopian world that has been taken over by vampires. She draws the unwanted attention of vampire royalty for the knowledge they think she has. However, obtaining that knowledge proves to be challenging to the vampires, even to the malicious interrogator that can manipulate and probe minds... it is also extremely painful for Georgia. Which goes along for the course as she is starved, beaten, tortured, and broken. She is just an animal... nothing more than potential cattle for feed and slaughter once they get the information they seek.
One such vampire that has his sights on her is Valen, and he is one of the most merciless and vicious of his kind. They call him the "Specter", for he is a monster and he kills without qualm. But yet... through the tattered haze of her fragmentes memories, Georgia somehow knows him. He is quite a puzzle, one that throws her into more confusion.
Death, gore, torture, betrayal, unraveling the mystery of stolen memories, darkness, and a twisted slow slow-burn and draw to the forbidden. Much more savagery than romance, this is not for the faint of heart. And... it ends on a cliffhanger.
audiobook courtesy of NetGalley / Dreamscape Media
A dark gothic, horror-filled macabre romance(-esque).
It's sort of dual timelines. Most chapters are headed with a (mostly brief) recovered journal entry, and the body of the chapter is present day, but sometimes the past. It's not consistent. Via the audiobook, it's slightly confusing as it's fluid between the two and not nearly as distinct as it could be.
At first, the narrator's voice, when speaking for the vampires, is grating. Maybe it's supposed to be and adds to the drama, but for me, it was a bit chalk-board-like irritating and took a while to get used to.
Dr. Georgia Clark is a human captive in a dystopian world that has been taken over by vampires. She draws the unwanted attention of vampire royalty for the knowledge they think she has. However, obtaining that knowledge proves to be challenging to the vampires, even to the malicious interrogator that can manipulate and probe minds... it is also extremely painful for Georgia. Which goes along for the course as she is starved, beaten, tortured, and broken. She is just an animal... nothing more than potential cattle for feed and slaughter once they get the information they seek.
One such vampire that has his sights on her is Valen, and he is one of the most merciless and vicious of his kind. They call him the "Specter", for he is a monster and he kills without qualm. But yet... through the tattered haze of her fragmentes memories, Georgia somehow knows him. He is quite a puzzle, one that throws her into more confusion.
Death, gore, torture, betrayal, unraveling the mystery of stolen memories, darkness, and a twisted slow slow-burn and draw to the forbidden. Much more savagery than romance, this is not for the faint of heart. And... it ends on a cliffhanger.
audiobook courtesy of NetGalley / Dreamscape Media
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Murder, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic