*****5 Stars*****
Okay, this is a strange book, but what else would you expect from Kitty Thomas. Kitty is one of my favorite authors, and a new book by her is always an event I look forward to. She does not disappoint with Dark Night of the Soul.
Imagine a dystopian novel, crossed with vampire erotica, and you might have a little idea what it's about. Helene lives in a horrific world, a future earth where a single day and night takes 2000 hours to complete, 1000 daylight hours and 1000 hours in the dark. During the day, life is pleasant enough, as violence is forbidden, but once the night comes, all bets are off. The daylight rules go out the window, and it's a violent free-for-all.
Helene is tired of living. Tired of the struggle to make it through the long nights. Wracked with guilt, she would have just ended it all if it wasn't for her sister. Her sister depends on her, and Helene does not want to let her down.
Trying to get emergency medicine for her sister, she finds herself caught outside when the sun goes down, and her chances are not looking good to get home to her sister in one piece. Suddenly, she finds herself kidnapped by parties unknown and transported to a mysterious mansion.
There she meets Gabriel, the secretive ruler of the city. Can Gabriel give Helene something to live for? Can Helene give Gabriel a reason to keep on leading his people as he's continued to do for thousands of years?
Do not go into this book, or really any book by Kitty Thomas, looking for a typical romance. You won't find it, and it's certainly not in this book either. But in spite of that, there is eroticism in the book, and a message about the value of life and death. It's a dark book, but it's not gratuitously dark. The darkness has a purpose. Go into the book prepared to have your mind blown, and you won't be disappointed.
Blurb
Night lasts a thousand hours. Forty sleeps—an endless desert of time when no one cares what happens to you until day.
Helene has given up. Only concern for her sister's grave medical condition tethers her to the world she dreams of escaping through death. If only she could bring herself to end it.
Caught out at night getting medicine for her sister, Helene is captured and taken as a slave for Gabriel, the mysterious ruler of the city.
“Helene, I will take your struggle away. I will bring you back to life.”
Helene has given up. Only concern for her sister's grave medical condition tethers her to the world she dreams of escaping through death. If only she could bring herself to end it.
Caught out at night getting medicine for her sister, Helene is captured and taken as a slave for Gabriel, the mysterious ruler of the city.
“Helene, I will take your struggle away. I will bring you back to life.”
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