With all the advance praise and recommendations from writers I love (F. Paul Wilson) imagine my dismay when I discovered this book is nothing more than a torrid mess.
ore. Check out Dan Simmons' Carrion Comfort or go watch the movie The Skeleton Key. Or better yet, go check out the 1948 novel by Josephine Pinckney called Great Mischief; it deals with another Southern city, Charleston, and a deal with the devil without resorting to Hollywood cliques and southern stereotypes.
Rhodi Hawk works too hard to create the southern atmosphere. Everything in this book seems forced, nothing is believable and often not very precise. Can we please have a novel about New Orleans that DOES NOT trot out the black voodoo queen? THAT would very original.
BIBLIO SAYS: Pass it by.
- college-freshman level writing
- abrupt narrative changes
- southern gothic soap opera cliques
ore. Check out Dan Simmons' Carrion Comfort or go watch the movie The Skeleton Key. Or better yet, go check out the 1948 novel by Josephine Pinckney called Great Mischief; it deals with another Southern city, Charleston, and a deal with the devil without resorting to Hollywood cliques and southern stereotypes.Rhodi Hawk works too hard to create the southern atmosphere. Everything in this book seems forced, nothing is believable and often not very precise. Can we please have a novel about New Orleans that DOES NOT trot out the black voodoo queen? THAT would very original.
BIBLIO SAYS: Pass it by.
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