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Red Fox (Experiment in Terror #2) Kindle Edition
In the forgotten town of Red Fox, a Navajo couple is tortured by things unseen and by motives unknown. Wild animals slink through their house in the dark, a barrage of stones pound their roof nightly, and mutilated sheep carcasses are turning up on their property.
Armed with a camera and just enough to go on, Perry and Dex travel to the desolate locale, hoping to film the supernatural occurrences and add credibility to their flailing webcast.
Only their show has a lot more working against them than just growing pains. Tested by dubious ranch hands, a ghost from Dex’s past, and shapeshifting deception, the amateur ghost hunters must learn to trust each other in order to fight the most ancient of myths…or die trying.
Note: The Experiment in Terror Series is a nine-book series that started in 2011. They must be read in order, including the four novellas. There is crude language in all books, and as the series goes on, graphic sex scenes, as well as scenes of horror and gore. Sensitive readers are advised.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateDecember 1, 2013
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- Darkhouse (Experiment in Terror #1)
- Red Fox (Experiment in Terror #2)
- The Benson - a novella (Experiment in Terror #2.5)
- Dead Sky Morning (Experiment in Terror #3)
- Lying Season (Experiment in Terror #4)
- On Demon Wings (Experiment in Terror #5)
- Old Blood - a Novella (Experiment in Terror #5.5)
- The Dex Files (An Experiment in Terror Companion Novel #5.7 - August 13th, 2012)
- Into the Hollow (Experiment in Terror #6 - October 23rd, 2012)
About the Author
Karina Halle, a former travel writer and music journalist, is the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of more than twenty wild and romantic books, including Love, in English; Dirty Angels; and the Artists trilogy. She lives on an island off the coast of British Columbia.
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- ASIN : B0055PJFA6
- Publisher : Metal Blonde Books (December 1, 2013)
- Publication date : December 1, 2013
- Language : English
- File size : 1836 KB
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- Print length : 340 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #403,307 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #702 in Ghost Thrillers
- #1,226 in Werewolf & Shifter Thrillers
- #1,829 in Occult Horror
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About the author
Karina Halle is a screenwriter, a former music & travel journalist, and the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, & USA Today bestselling author of River of Shadows, The Royals Next Door, and Black Sunshine, as well as 70 other wild and romantic reads, ranging from light & sexy rom coms to horror/paranormal romance and dark fantasy. Needless to say, whatever genre you're into, she's probably written a romance for it. When she's not traveling, she and her husband split their time between a possibly haunted 120 year-old house in Victoria, BC, and their condo in Los Angeles. She seems a bit boring in her bio but I assure you she's a big ol' goof in real life. For more information, visit www.authorkarinahalle.com.
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Also, the romance that has no romance concept is one of my favorite things about this series. I LOVE that Perry and Dex have to work together, that he has a beautiful girlfriend, and that he teases her about how they +might+ have something else in their future.
OK, Dex. In the first book I didn't feel like I knew Dex all that well because it's mostly about Perry. But in Red Fox we see bits and pieces of Dex that start to peel away the layers hidden there. I think I will eventually love Dex when I finally get to see the real him. But we did learn, with some delight, that he wears boxers, not briefs. ;)
OK, the plot. I'm not a fan of the whole Native American spirit world, but I enjoyed this trip to the Southwest. I enjoyed the characters there, the bar, the crazy rural people and setting (I live in this kind of place myself) and the wacky ranchers.
My favorite part, and don't ask me why because I'm sure people don't think it's as funny as I do, was when Perry came home after getting in a bit of trouble while Dex was away in town.
He sighed and rolled his eyes. "Unbelievable. I leave you alone for two hours and you fall off a cliff, get attacked by a crow, and a snake explodes all over you."
I get it, you have to be there, but I laughed so hard picturing Perry all thrashed up and Dex just looking down at her like WTF are you doing? ! :)
Here's why Red Fox gets a five star and most of the other books I review on here don't quite make it: These books are FUN. They make me laugh and in fact, almost the minute I pick one up, I begin to smile. How is that NOT a five star read? It just is.
I'm getting ready to write an article on the trends in NA books these days and in my opinion, and take from that what you will, I'm no expert beyond what you see here, Karina Halle has definitely started a new trend in NA literature that bucks the old system of how we look at girls/women and what we expect in a five star character.
I'm gonna be honest, I don't particularly care for some of the ways in which adult women are being portrayed in the new adult market - but everything I see about Perry is awesome. From her struggle in high school with her weight, to her nagging self-doubts, to her sense of humor, and outcast feeling. Perry is real. Perry is me, almost! Except, I'm way older than Perry...but I remember! That's the point!
I wish more authors would take a good long look at the characters they build and decide to make them more real. How they do that is up to them, but Karina Halle has nailed it, so please, don't copy her. We only need one Perry. (Just like we only ever needed one Bella.) Find that part of you that struggles and make a character out of it.
I love this series, I love Ms. Halle's writing, and I will definitely continue to pick up her books in the future.
Originally posted over at New Adult Addiction
Red Fox kicks off a month after the events of Darkhouse, Perry's keeping an additional secret from her family as she heads off to the town of Red Fox, New Mexico with Declan to tackle the monster of the week: Skinwalkers. Or in non-Navajo parlance, shape-shifters.
Overall, this had a campier feel than the first book. Has anyone seen, Kung Pow: Enter the Fist ? There was a crazy action sequence with a bird in this book that reminded me of one particular scene from that movie.
Please don't judge me.
This was a riot to read. I want to believe this was the full intent of the author, but I'm also wondering if I'm the only one who was laughing hysterically while reading the dire situations Declan and Perry got themselves into.
This book definitely upped the ante in the creepiness factor in the series. In terms of the web show: S***'s getting serious, y'all. Though involving animals portrayed as anything other than domesticated (i.e. crazed, possessed, talking, dead, etc.) tend to do that I think in any story. This episode did feel a little too drawn out with the space between their arrival in town and the climax filled with red herrings and Declan's backstory through the plot device named Maximus, a friend from his past. The former didn't entertain as much as the latter.
While my love of Perry continues to be iron-clad, Declan persists in being a treasure trove of cryptic answers, meaningful looks and unexpected reactions. What is going on in that boy's brain? I think there's only ever one honest moment between him and Perry and it was under duress. Because while Maximus did provide us a hasty sketch of who Declan was pre-Perry, that was all it was: someone else's sketch that Declan never had the chance to confirm or deny. Which by the way included the mother of all that is cryptic:
"Dex is one of the greatest liars you'll ever come across. The man turns it into an art."
A not-so-subtle mindfluck. Nice. That line probably will hold my feelings towards Declan under hostage for a while. Though certainly, he's likable enough with his quirks and habits that I can't replace my curiosity with annoyance.
This book was peppered with more pop culture references than the first one, which again, I thoroughly enjoyed because most of them I got (that Mick Jagger reference would've killed it if it came with a Mars bar mention) but could also be a problem when it becomes dated like Sarah Palin and pigs. Anyone who's read my other reviews know how much I detest any reference of a character bursting into a song (I don't need Glee in my books, thanks) but for this one? Consider yourselves schooled on how not to choke the reader with cheese. This is gingerly sprinkling the story with the right amount of cheddar. Although U2 and Billy Joel?! In a single page?! Are you trying to make my heart explode, Karina?!
Obviously there's something paranormal going on with these two (apart from the out of this world chemistry) and I hope the next book starts to pitch in some puzzle pieces. I'm also hoping a bit more of Ada in the next one because she only left us with this little nugget of wisdom when the world obviously needs more from her:
"Oh shut up. Spare me your dramatics. You're in your early twenties and you live at home, you loser. Half of the country is out of work right now and they actually have real problems, such as mouth to feed and mortgages to pay and whatever."
Word.
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I've now read up to book 6 in the series, so writing a review about book 2 with the benefit of foresight is a wonderful thing. Also, if you're reading this review and you haven't read all the other books yet then I envy the experience you're about to go on! For me, it's all about the characters, but the story is creepy enough to keep your attention too. Start with 'Darkhouse' if you haven't read the first book yet.
I love Dex and Perry, I really do. They're so deliciously messed up! Perry is developing an attraction for Dex that she doesn't understand or need and really who knows what Dex is thinking or feeling? The books are written from Perry's point of view and I defy anyone not to recognise a bit of Perry in themselves; she's insecure, has low self-esteem, is funny, anxious, sarcastic, hopeful, terrified, warm, open - she's black and white and all shades in between and you can't help but love her. She's wonderful.
The storm that is Dex Foray is a different matter, from reading Perry's POV you get what she knows about Dex and that's all, and that's a jumble of confusion and joy. He's an enigma, wrapped up in a snarky, funny, caring, sexy, confused, bewildered, hot package. He's moved into my top book boyfriends, I feel like Perry with a fangirl crush on him!
We meet some great characters in this book; Maximus who is an old 'friend' of Dex's and Bird who lives and works on the farm. They're both great characters but you don't want to take your eyes off of them for a minute.
Karina Halle writes an amazing story - I am in awe of her really, she's jumped into my top authors and I'm going to go on and read everything else she's done. That's how good she is at this. She's created two of the best characters I've ever read, and I read all the time!
I laughed, I gasped, My heart wrenched and I loved it!
Die beste Vermutung des Duos ist, dass es sich um einen Poltergeist handelt. Wirklich sicher sind sie sich allerdings nicht, denn eigentlich sind sie sich durchaus bewusst, dass sie nichts weiter als Amateure sind.
Nicht jeder ist froh, Dex, Perry und ihre Show in Red Fox zu haben und schnell m+ssen sie feststellen, dass es nicht nur Menschen sind, die da gegen sie arbeiten. Auch der Geist - bei dem sie sich langsam nicht mehr sicher sind, dass es sich wirklich um einen handelt - reagiert sehr aggressiv auf die Ankunft der Neuankömmlinge.
Mit der Hilfe von Maximus, einem alten Freund von Dex, beginnen sie ihre Ermittlungen - und befinden sich bald im Fokus übernatürlicher Kreaturen, bei denen es sogar Perry schwerfällt, an deren Existenz zu glauben.
Ich habe den ersten Band dieser Reihe geliebt, auch wenn es, wenn ich ehrlich bin, ein paar Sachen gab, die nicht perfekt waren. Da wären z.B. die teils etwas vage Geschichte, ein etwas träger Anfang und schwer einzuschätzende Charaktere. In Red Fox, dem zweiten Teil ihrer Experiment in Terror-Reihe, hat Karina Halle allerdings wirklich alles richtig gemacht.
Von Anfang an weiß die Geschichte zu fesseln, denn es dauert nicht lange, bis sich unsere beiden Helden knietief in ihrem Fall befinden. Auch fühlt sich das ganze Buch diesmal ein kleines bisschen strukturierter an. Es ist zwar immer noch nicht vorhersehbar (Gott sei Dank), fühlt sich aber natürlicher an und die Spannung hält sich leichter.
Was die Charaktere angeht, so ist der Autorin ein riesiger Sprung gelungen. Ihre Abenteuer im Leuchtturm haben Spuren bei Perry hinterlassen und sie ist daran gewachsen. Gleichzeitig hat sie verständlicherweise aber so viel Angst wie noch nie vor dem, was sie sieht. Auch Zuhause und in ihrem eigentlichen Job häufen sich die Probleme, so dass ihr die Show und deren Erfolgt nur noch wichtiger wird. Auch ihre unangebrachten Gefühle für Dex sind etwas, mit dem sie sich auseinandersetzen muss. Und Dex - wenn ich ihn im ersten Buch geliebt habe, dann vergöttere ich ihn jetzt. Auch er hat mit einigen Problemen und Umstellungen zu kämpfen, besonders was seine Krankheit und Medikamente angeht. Dafür bekommen wir aber auch einen wesentlich tieferen Einblick in seine Vergangenheit und seinen Charakter. Er ist immer noch unberechenbar wie eh und je, trotzdem lernt man ihn langsam kennen und einschätzen. Außerdem ist er nicht mehr so sprunghaft und etwas menschlicher, was ihn nur noch sympathischer macht.
Die Kultur der Navajo Indianer und der Schauplatz in der Wüste sind die ideale Ausgangsposition für eine spannende Geschichte. Wie gewohnt mangelt es nicht an gruseligen Szenen und auch wenn es nicht direkt brutal ist, für schwache Nerven sind die Bücher auch nicht gerade und vor allem Perry hat schon eine Menge zu erleiden. Wie schon gesagt fällt es diesmal viel leichter dem übernatülichen Teil der Geschichte zu folgen und als Leser tappt man genauso lange im Dunkeln, wie die Hauptcharaktere.
All das macht Red Fox von Karina Halle zu einem perfekten zweiten Band in der Experiment in Terror-Reihe, der seinen Vorgänger spielend übertrifft. Man merkte dem Buch an, dass die Autorin mittlerweile mehr Erfahrung hat und das hat der Geschichte sehr gut getan. Die Schauplätze sind spannend, genauso wie der indianische Hintergrund und die Chemie zwischen den beiden Hauptcharakteren ist einfach immer wieder eine Wucht.