Night Lasts 1,000 hours. Nobody cares what happens to you. Good Luck.Disclaimer: This book is dark literary erotica with both paranormal and dystopian elements. If you’ve never read anything by Kitty Thomas, I don’t know what to tell you. This work isn’t romance with a “traditional HEA”. Subject matter and themes are dark. Neither the author nor the publisher endorses or condones … the publisher endorses or condones any behavior carried out by any fictional character in this work or any other. This work is meant for an emotionally mature adult audience.
Dark Night of the Soul, by Kitty Thomas
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.”
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Wow, wow, wow, wow ,wow – every time, every book, I am simply blown away…..
This is a Kitty Thomas world, and it stands alone. She always warns people, but sometimes people forget or don’t take the warnings. She writes dark and twisted stories, and if you like or love those, she is a master of them, so devour this as all of us who crave that genre do!
In this world, night and day are not on 24 hours, they are on days long. The fairy tales for children explain why, but most just accept it as their reality. During the day, there is law and order and everything is always safe. 40 days of no worries, travelling out in public and enjoying the days. Night is another story, anything goes and lawlessness rules. These 40 days balance the scale
Helene craves neither night or day, but she has to care for her sister Simone since her parents have died. Even after being caught out at night and taken, she doesn’t worry what will happen to her, she wants it all done
Gabriel has never seen anything like this, many people say they don’t care, but they beg in the end. Helene didn’t and he is fascinated. This begins the twisted and painful journey for them both
It is wow, you can’t review it without telling the story. There are so many pieces, so many parts, it isn’t a story line, it is a story kaleidoscope, there are so many facets and they all shine
Needless to say, the faint of heart need to stay away, but those who are thrilled by the dark and twisted, dive in and you will wallow in this decadence
Really interesting story. I wanted it to continue. It wasn’t that the characters were anything special but the story was fantastic. A little bit of 30 Days of Night, The Purge, and Logan’s Run with a touch of Daybreakers. There is a romantic plotline but I found the world built by the author so much more intriguing than the romance.
Meh. Pages and pages spent analyzing good vs bad and what makes bad bad. And why, why, why. What would have been the great part, the part where the characters bonded? Ya. That was pretty much skipped over. Would I recommend this book? Nah. Oh, and I read this as the audiobook. The narrator didn’t suck.
I just listened to Dark Night of the Soul on Audible as well as followed the story via whispersync. I love doing this because as much as I love to listen to my books. I like to follow along with the written version too.
Helene’s sister Simone has seizures and needs medicine to keep the seizures at bay. She was going to run out of the medicine before light. Night is when bad things happen but what was Helene to do. She needed to go out to get Simone’s life saving meds. And, bad things happen. Helene is taken, gets rescued only to find out that she has been taken again. She is then given to Gabriel, “the mysterious ruler of the city”. What’s to become of her and more importantly her sister, Simone?
Helene goes from silent to sassy. Gabriel strikes a deal with Helene. Her cooperation so Simone will get her very important medication.
I mostly listen on my Kindle using the “text to speech” feature. That said, it isn’t the best way to listen to a book. I have gotten used to it and can mainly know that there will be mispronounced words. It is of course WAY better to be able to listen to a human reading the story. It is a treat when I listen to a human narrator! There are actually inflections, and you can feel the angst. It is palpable at times.
I really enjoyed the audible version narrated by Addison Barnes. This is the first book that I have listened to by this narrator but not the first book written by Kitty Thomas! I love her writing.
“I felt that if his hand stayed there long enough, surely he could melt the block of ice around me, and I would awaken some new creature that saw the world in full color.”
The Queen of Dark Erotica has written a different take on the vampire legend, where there are a 1,000 hours of day and night.
Helene is tired of the endless hours of feeling nothing…of being lost in a darkness within herself and just wants it to end. The only thing that keeps her going is not wanting to leave her sister alone to fend for herself.
Gabriel is the King of the Darkness, and when Helene is taken captive, he sees her as a kindred spirit and spares her if she agrees to call him “Master” and serve him for the 1,000 hours of night. He vows to care for her sister during this time if Helene behaves.
During their time together, Helene and Gabriel fight, love, and discover that there is still hope for something more than just existing.
Loved this story!!