Satan’s Affair by H.D. Carlton
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Every Halloween, Satan’s Affair will come to you.
We travel the country, offering terrifying haunted houses, thrilling rides and the tastiest food. And with every passing town, I cleanse this world, one execution at a time.
I hide within the walls, casting my judgement for those that reek of evil, singing lullabies to their rotting souls.
Once you’ve been chosen, there’s no escaping my henchmen—they cater to my every desire.
You can run and you can hide, but it only excites me.
Come.
Take a walk through my dollhouse, where your screams will blend and your cute little pleas will go unanswered.
But I can’t promise it’ll be over quickly…
Satan’s Affair
Cray-cray, is all I can say-say!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🖤💚
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍🌎
Character development: 😔🤓😘😄
“With Satan’s Affair traveling around the country during the fall months, we’ve become quite famous. A traveling Halloween fair, with dozens of haunted houses, small thrill rides and plenty of food to gorge yourself on. Every year, the theme of our houses changes to avoid our guests walking through the same houses year after year, being scared by the same monsters.”
“Not a single soul passes through the threshold of this house without me casting judgment—determining if evil resides in their soul. As they make their way through the maze of my dollhouse, I watch from inside the walls. They’re all judged. Every single one of them.”
The heroine: Sibel – she works at Satan’s Affair; this year her haunted house is a haunted doll house and is pink like Barbie’s dream house. She can sense evil in a person, and they travel from town to town with the fair. In each town, she is able to pick out one demon and she violently kills this demon after her henchman separate that person from their group and the fair closes for the night and everyone goes home.
The Heroes: Mortis, Baine, Jackal, Cronus, and Timothy – The henchmen.
Mortis – he is touchy freely, because he has mommy issues. His mother was a crack addict that ignored him.
Baine – he was sexually abused by his father who had a penchant for oral sex. He has issues putting anything in his mouth, even food.
Cronus – he is mute. His mother once locked him in a closet for months refusing to let him out. He went silent after screaming till he lost his voice.
Jackal and Timothy – they each grew up in foster care, going from one abuser to the next.
The Story: Sibel has daddy issues, her father was evil and tainted her mother’s goodness. That resulted in the birth of Sibel. Her daddy always said he was doing this world a favor by carrying out God’s law. Though in truth, it was Sibel that was ridding the world of evil one demon at at time. She is trying to creat a new world, without evil.
I read this book because I bought the audiobooks for Haunting Adeline and Hunting Adeline, which from the blurbs looked to be dark stalker romance books, though now after starting to read this, I was a bit afraid they will just be a bit too far out there. Though I did like the character of Zane so I think those books will be fine.
I have read books similar to this and liked them in the past. I think you kind of have to be in the right mood to read about killers who really enjoy killing this much, then you can kind of take it like a funny satire or something. I don’t know that I was in that kind of mood today. Though I have to admit, it did hold my interest and I got more in the mood for it as the story went along. I actually started to like it quite a bit more than I expected.
I did really like how Sibil could smell the souls of other people. How good people would smell like fresh flowers, how people that might be mean, but not inherently evil would smell like things such as grass, or smoke, but how truly evil people would smell putrid. When she stabbed them, the smell of rotten eggs would emit from the holes. Though I did wonder at first if this was actually a paranormal tale or was Sibil just completely bonkers. I mean she did say that the evil people were demons, was that real or just talk, and were the smells all in her head or was she really psychic in some way? It became clear as the book went on, though I won’t tell you if it was actually paranormal or not, either way Sibil was definitely mad as a hatter.
“You’re an interesting person, Sibby. But I’m going to need you to calm the fuck down. I can’t interrogate in peace when you’re over there stabbing someone like a cracked-out banshee, you feel me?”
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