I wanted, like so many other people have said in reviews, to love this book. Thank you to NetGalley and 47North for the eARC in exchange for an honest reviewĢ stars? 3 stars? Something in that area anyway. Honestly, if this book would have been just about New Orleans and Vodou and Mambo Reina Dumond's magic and powers, I would have enjoyed it quite a bit more. On top of that, the "love interest" was a terrible human being and it made no sense while the ex would even have been a thing to begin with and making the detective her ex who was still slightly in the picture felt forced to help move the plot. There was never a pull or an understanding as to why the MC needed to figure out what was going on instead of letting the professionals handle it. It distracted and the problem never felt like an actual threat until the very end. The murder mystery of the novel took away from the stronger writing of the setting and the Vodou, in my opinion.
Unfortunately, I felt like the book blurb for The Quarter Storm over promised and the novel under delivered. The scenes where the main character, Mambo Reina Dumond, used her magic were the best parts of this book. But my favorite part was definitely the Vodou and how it was depicted and how Veronica Henry managed to world build this novel with magic. While we didn't get a full immersion into New Orleans, what locations we visited were always well drawn out. I loved how atmospheric The Quarter Storm was. As a killer wields dangerous magic to thwart Reina’s investigation, she must tap into the strength of her own power and faith to solve a mystery that threatens to destroy her entire way of life. Reina resolves to find the real killer and defend the Vodou practice and customs, but the motives behind the murder are deeper and darker than she imagines.Īs Reina delves into the city’s shadows, she untangles more than just the truth behind a devious crime. Detective Roman Frost, Reina’s ex-boyfriend-a fierce nonbeliever-is eager to tie the crime, and half a dozen others, to the Vodou practitioners of New Orleans. Gifted with water magic since she was a child, Reina is devoted to the benevolent traditions of her ancestors.Īfter a ritual slaying in the French Quarter, police arrest a fellow vodouisant. Haitian-American Vodou priestess Mambo Reina Dumond runs a healing practice from her New Orleans home. A practitioner of Vodou must test the boundaries of her powers to solve a ritual murder in New Orleans and protect everything she holds sacred.
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