Experiment in Terror

[Lisa]

Thanks, Lori. I hadn't checked Halle's GR site before now and watched that Dex & Perry interview - pretty funny "didn't want to get the boat wet" LOL!

[Ladyhawk]

Favorite Dex quote! Ah haha! Now that's a challenge! I think we should post a few! We could go romantic or raunchy.

June 23 is right around the corner. Shouldn't be to painful for those eagerly awaiting it! (Not that I'm not looking forward to it. I just managed to pace myself better than the rest of you! )

[Lisa]

Lucky you, Ladyhawk! Yeah, perhaps we could post our favorite Dexisms here?

[Regina]

Sins & Needles is on Edelweiss.

[Kay]

I finished and . I was really mad at him after Lying Season but I forgive him now...so excuse all my ranting about him in some previous posts.

Into the Hollow (view spoiler)[ I loved Dex 2.0 and all the effort he made to be a better man. I loved the meaning behind his tattoo. I loved how he told Perry that he's right there for her, out in the open...loving her and not hiding anymore. I understand why Perry was apprehensive about trusting him again but I am glad she made the decision to love him again at the end. It ended on a good note and I can't wait to read Come Alive (hide spoiler)]

I'm off to read the spoilers in the previous posts...

[Regina]

Me too -- I agree! I loved Into the Hollow, for me it was such a wonderful conclusion but beginning too. I cannot wait for Come Alive!!!!!

[Regina]

Wasn't that hunter/guide guy freaky?

[Kay]

Regina wrote: "Wasn't that hunter/guide guy freaky?"

OMG! Yes, he was freaky! (view spoiler)[Just the way he was staring at Perry in the living room while Dex was cooking. That gave me the creeps! (hide spoiler)]

[Regina]

It is interesting though to see Perry through other's eyes (view spoiler)[ (not that a rapist freak is an endorsement!) (hide spoiler)]

[Lisa]

Yeah, that hunter/guide creeped me out! (view spoiler)[Was surprised when he got *you know* (still wanting to hide a spoiler within a spoiler! LOL) because I kept expecting him to show up again (hide spoiler)]

I don't get the mustache rapist reference? Something about Perry's mustache...what?

[Regina]

It's about dex's mustache. Lol. The stereotype if a rapist or child molester having facial hair .....

[Lisa]

LOL!! Oops, I meant Dex's mustache. Oh gawd, "Perry's mustache"...ah, some facial wax maybe? I never heard the facial hair and rapist/child molester tie before.

[Lisa]

Supposedly in 3 more days will be out. I sure hope so! But I'm not seeing anything like a pre-order on Amazon yet.

[Gwennie, Mrs. Bookworm]

I'm crossing my fingers!

[Lori]

I think that Karina self-publishes these books. Anyway, her blog says that she's on schedule to release the book this Sunday.

So, if she self-publishes, the book won't be available for pre-order. It'll just be available on Sunday.

[Regina]

She does self publish. I am guessing she gets a better cut if we buy from Smashwords - don't you think?

I am so freaking busy at work and with personal stuff, but I WILL be reading Dex .....(sexxxxxxxxxx). :D

[Lori]

Regina wrote: "She does self publish. I am guessing she gets a better cut if we buy from Smashwords - don't you think?

I am so freaking busy at work and with personal stuff, but I WILL be reading Dex .....(se..."

The last part of your post has me smiling from ear-to-ear, Regina!

[Regina]

I want to re-read the series so bad, but I want to wait to make it feel new again. Although it will never be new again. :(

[Gwennie, Mrs. Bookworm]

LOL! Reminds me of this:

[Regina]

Ha! So true! That comic strip reminds me of how Georgina read books by her *wink* favorite author in Succubus Blues

[Lori]

LOVE it, Wendy! Absolutely right. That's why I hate the way I suck the new books down, like I've been without water in the middle of this Mojave Desert for a week... I love them so much, I want to savor them. But I can't wait to find out what happens.

What a dilemma.

[Regina]

We all know we will gorge though. It isn't a choice, really.

[Leea, Escape Artist]

Regina wrote: "She does self publish. I am guessing she gets a better cut if we buy from Smashwords - don't you think?

I am so freaking busy at work and with personal stuff, but I WILL be reading Dex .....(se..."

Ohhh WORD sister!!! This might just be the thing that gets me out of my reading funk... So excited!

[Lori]

TEASER from Come Alive!

SPOILER ALERT: Karina Halle's marked it, too. But if you haven't read Into the Hollow, don't click on this link:
http://experimentinterror.com/2013/06...

[Regina]

I saw that! I won't read it. :D

[Gwennie, Mrs. Bookworm]

oh man, i can not WAIT for that damn book!

[Regina]

me too!!!

[Kay]

I can't wait. Loved the teaser. "cum dump­ster" Hahahha!! I love Dex!

[Lisa]

LOL Wendy! Perfect comic strip - that is SO me too! And yes, Georgina...hahaha (good one, Regina).

Thanks for explaining the non-existent pre-order. Had me a little worried. And hadn't thought about the author's cut, etc. so will look into shopping at Smashwords if I can. It's just so damn easy with Amazon with that one click and presto! Plus, I have a gift cert to use up :)

Thanks for that teaser link, Lori! Oh man, I'm not sure I'm remembering the last book so well. May have to reread real quick!

[Regina]

I Have another Dex and Perry song! Bruno Mars's Locked Out of Heaven: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-fA-g...

[Lori]

Good one, Regina! Very appropo for Come Alive, too.

[Regina]

The beginning made me think of it. :)

[Leea, Escape Artist]

now I cannot wait to start this book... I love that song.

[Lori]

I don't think that this is a spoiler for Come Alive... if it is, Mods, let me know. But I think it's one of the BEST lines in the book - and, of course, it's Dex's:

(Dex) "Baby, doing me is always and forever a given. It's like Newton's law of gravity, or Amazon taking over the world."

[Tellulah]

Well this just happened (view spoiler)[ Dex was told he can't be with Perry. (hide spoiler)] and I'm liking him a lot more now because (view spoiler)[ the "I love her so much, let's stick my dick in her", was really getting tiresome. I wasn't feeling the chemistry. But I am feeling the pain. (hide spoiler)]

[Gwennie, Mrs. Bookworm]

LMAO, I love that quote. I can't wait to start that book.

[Regina]

I don't think Halle writes perry very well when seen through dex's eyes. She is very one dimensional. She is all tits, ass and blue eyes - and occasionally lip chewing feisty thing. That's it. I don't think we noticed this when reading the limited Dex povs because she was supposed to be one dimensional in those - we had already seen her in the main books. I am at 50% and I know have been really busy but I haven't had much desire to push ahead. I may take a break to read Piper's Son.

[Gwennie, Mrs. Bookworm]

Hmmmm, I'm gonna start this today so I'll have to come back and post my thoughts when I start.

I guess my only question would be, you don't think that's because we're getting a view of her that's shaded with Dex's lust for her?

[Regina]

So far - we are not getting her as a character much at all. The first 20% or so was fun - but the story feels more limited and less full as her others. I look forward to being back with perry again.

[Tellulah]

Regina wrote: "I don't think Halle writes perry very well when seen through dex's eyes. She is very one dimensional. She is all tits, ass and blue eyes - and occasionally lip chewing feisty thing. That's it. I do..."

Well said. You just nailed my issue with it, Regina. I'll be glad to go back to a Perry POV as well.

[Leea, Escape Artist]

Hmmm... you ladies have me nervous. Starting it now.

[Lori]

I figured it was Dex being a guy. But then, I gorged on it and gulped it down in 3 hrs.

[Leea, Escape Artist]

Okay 36% into and I totally see where you're coming from Regina. I just got hooked when we started getting into more of the story. Plus I've waited a long time for them To be going at it like rabbits. Lol.

[Regina]

The sex scenes are great. No question. :)

I just feel an absence of depth that Halle normally had if that makes sense. I feel like tbere are easy leaps in the story to - rather than letting it unfold. Something really interesting just happened at 63%.

I just thought the intro to rose and then the mambo was so easy. And Halle didn't have things happen so easily in other books. Not sure if I am explaining well. Sorry if I a downer.

[Lori]

Never a downer, Regina. I love your perspective. I can see how Dex's POV seems shallow - more shallow than we've seen Dex in the most recent books.

I think that I just took it in stride with all that was going on around them, figuring that Dex was overly obsessed with Perry and trying to get through doing a show with Max at the helm.

I definitely missed Perry's POV. I'd thought we were going to get the dual treatment in this book; and that would have been awesome - to see different parts through Dex's and Perry's POV.

I didn't like how everything skewed so quickly when Rose was involved, either. And there wasn't a whole lot of mystery/suspense in this one, IMO. ICK and HORROR factor yes; suspense and scare-your-pants-off... not so much. Some missed opportunities to drive it all home.

But so many pieces of things that we could only guess at are revealed. And I guess I forgave a lot for that.

[Leea, Escape Artist]

I just met Rose... At 36% (view spoiler)[ we just got the revelation from Max that Dex & Perry are not meant to be together and that they should have children. This has me a little pissed because Max is not the most reliable source to say the least. The sex is hot but I just love Dex dirty mouth and hes always got his hand on Perry and i've been waiting 6 books for this so i'm just going to live it up while it lasts. haha! (hide spoiler)]

You're not a downer at all Regina, you're my voice of reason when my reading is clouded with Dex & Perry finally being together. I do wish and miss P's POV...

[Leea, Escape Artist]

Yeah, 63% and my mind is going crazy right now. What do you thinks going to happen now?

[Regina]

After I read Pippa's story I guessed that (view spoiler)[Maximus was that. (hide spoiler)]. It is interesting.

[Regina]

I feel like there is more telling than showing in Come Alive -- like re Rose, Maryse and then (view spoiler)[ Maximus and Dex (hide spoiler)]. In the earlier books when we learned something about key characters or situations -- for example about Dex and Perry's "powers" orr Pippa's relation to the characters it would be done through showing of action/story -- not a big explanation from a character. I just don't think (here I go again) that this book is as well written or developed in terms of characters, mystery, and setting as the other books: too much tell and not enough show, mystery pretty simplistic and easy to figure out, characters are one dimensional -- like Max, Rose and Perry. This to me is unusal from how Halle has written her other books I have read.

What I like about this book:
1. The sex scenes, yes they are hot.
2. When Perry and Dex were just hanging out it was fun -- whether in Seattle or in NOLA.
3. The scene involving (view spoiler)[ Jen (hide spoiler)] was pretty satisfying.
4. The reveals about the characters and the world (even though the method of how it was done was just not great writing or storytelling)

So far it is a 3 star book for me. I am at 90%.

[Regina]

Lori - it wasn't that I thought he was overly obsessed with Perry, sorry if I wrote it poorly before. I get he loves her but even through his love and lust obsessed eyes we are not really getting a full Perry -- she is always descrbied the same way -- whimpering out of fear, biting her lips due to tension or thinking, big eyes due to hurt, shining blue eyes with love, big breasts or silky/milky white skin. All that is fine but we get nothing further of her at all. If Dex really thought of her as a person or it was more fleshed out, we would get a fuller character. An example of how Halle does this really well would be how we saw Dex through Perry's eyes. It was much more complex. Reading Come Alive I have no sense for Perry as a person at all. That is what I mean. :)