Imagine a perfect street. Let´s call it Bird Street. Everything is perfectly balanced and everyone is happy. But, as usual, there is a price for it. A human price. Every November, someone is chosen to die. And the life keeps running as usual. Perfect. Unless someone is ready to break this cycle and run away from the honorable duty. The gates of Hell are open. Open for the Devil to get in.
Darker Days by Thomas Olde Heuvelt was a completely different kind of read from my usual topics. But it explores brilliantly the Faustian pact, that fascinated me for many years long time ago. Is there any price to be paid for happiness? Does happiness exist, or it is just a projection of our minds looking for balance and perfection? Just a way to appease fears...and oh, how smartly Darker Days is playing with fears!
Thomas Olde Heuvelt plays so well the human weaknesses, through the characters, very well portrayed and with strong, definite voices, but also through the many circumstances they are exposed to.
The ´darker´ in the title resonates perfectly well to the current season, particularly the month of November and I personally loved this match between this time of the year and the concentration of unhappy events planned for this time of the year.
The writing is spine-chilling often, and I had to stop more frequently I wished to, but nevertheless this book opened up towards so many brutal truth about human nature that we would maybe avoid to ask if not through the fictional setting.
Rating: 4.5 stars
Disclaimer: Book offered as part of the book tour but the opinions are, as usual, my own
Thanks for the blog tour support x
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