Satan’s Affair

Cat and Mouse, Book #0.5

By H.D. Carlton

ISBN# 9781957635064

Author’s Website:  hdcarlton.com

Brought to you by OBS reviewer Heidi

Review

Sibel grew up in a religious cult, where her dad abused her and made everyone believe his lies.  She also watched her mom slowly fade away in front of her eyes. 

Now Sibel travels with Satan’s Affair, a traveling Halloween fair.  She doesn’t actually get paid to work there, but she lives in the walls of one of the haunted houses, her dollhouse.  She can smell the stink of evil on people, the demons, and if they come into her doll house, she and her henchmen will end them.

Now Satan’s Affair has moved on to Seattle where a known pedophile ring resides.  And, when four demons come in and one other man that smells off as well, Sibel will have her hands full!  Zade offers to help, and she takes him up on it, despite him smelling off, as she’s only ever killed one demon at a time.  But can he really be trusted?

This book is a lot of things.  It’s a horror story, serial killer vigilante tale, a reverse harem erotica book … and a psychological fiction story all rolled up into one.

I found the concept neat.  A person haunting the Halloween fair to rid the world of evil one demon at a time.  I think the erotic reverse harem portion of this was probably unnecessary.  This is a very dark novella.  This girl gets aroused by torturing and killing evil demons and then turns to having sex with her henchmen before the body has even cooled.

“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?”

Then there is the psychological aspect.  Do any of these people even exist? 

“Crazy people are the most interesting people in the world if you’d just let them be who they are. Medicating and drugging people until they’re mindless zombies would make anyone depressed,”

The epilogue on this book was entirely too long.  I feel it could have made the case the author was trying for without so much filler.

This book is the prequel to the Cat and Mouse series and I’m curious to see how it all connects.  I hope Zade is in the series as he seemed like an interesting fellow.