All good characters have flaws
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Confession time! I know you guys just love it when I start a review off like that &#8211; but there&#8217;s usually a good reason. This time it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m just a teensy bit hardheaded. You see, I get lovingly &#8216;bullied&#8217; into reading books a lot. For some reason, those books seem to be the ones that I pick up last. I have no reason and definitely no excuse. That just seems to be the way things go. In the case of Darkhouse it&#8217;s even worse, I&#8217;ve had a couple people recommend it. I even had one of my blogging buddies offer to buy me the entire series if I would just pick this book up and read it. That was a pretty reasonable, no strings attached request considering it was already on my kindle (and has been for over a YEAR.) Not to mention the fact that it was FREE. *hangs head in shame* Now that I&#8217;ve gotten that off my chest, I can move on with the review.Darkhouse wasn&#8217;t at all what I expected. From the moment I &#8216;met&#8217; Perry I was hooked. All good characters have flaws. If they were perfect the average reader wouldn&#8217;t be able to relate to them. For me, Perry was much more than relatable, she was real. I loved her. I loved her &#8216;voice,&#8217; I loved her personality and I loved her spunk. She was lacking in self confidence and she didn&#8217;t have a lot of support (even from the people who loved her) but there was just something about her that made me like her. I just knew that once she found her niche things would turn around for her.Then there was Dex. I&#8217;m still not quite sure about how I feel about him, but to be fair, neither was Perry by the end of the book. Coming into the Experiment in Terror series late, I know that there is a lot more to come and to be honest, he kind of grew on me. There&#8217;s a lot to be learned about Dex and I&#8217;m willing to be things get a whole lot more interesting.As far as the story goes&#8230; yeah, it was just scary enough to keep the pages turning. Karina Halle definitely kept me on the edge of my seat. I&#8217;m not sure if I would have gone to the lighthouse the first time much less the times that Perry and Dex returned, but if they hadn&#8217;t, there wouldn&#8217;t have been a story, so who am I to argue. (I&#8217;m also a confirmed chicken and not afraid to admit it.  )The characters were great, especially Dex and Perry. Out of all of Perry&#8217;s family members, Ada and her uncle Al were the ones that I liked the most. Her parents irritated me, for a lot of reasons. You&#8217;ll have to read the book to understand why, but if you still don&#8217;t know exactly why, feel free to ask. Some of it is because of not wanting to give anything away and a lot of it is because I didn&#8217;t like the way Perry was treated. Something tells me that Perry and Dex are going to be good for each other in more ways than one.So yeah, I definitely enjoyed Darkhouse and could kick myself for waiting so long to finally pick it up. I&#8217;m sure I will be getting a lot of &#8216;I told you so&#8217;s&#8217; from my blogging buddies. *sigh* On the plus side there are currently 8 books in the series, so I don&#8217;t have to wait to read the next one. Red Fox is the second book in the Experiment in Terror series and it&#8217;s already on my TBR list. 