Review: Just okay...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 30, 2013
2 1/2 stars....Deja Voodoo tries to be cute and quirky, but somehow it just didn't pull it off for me. It never felt like we truly got into any depth in the story--I had a hard time really engaging with the characters. The drama, the suspense, the voodoo magic, the romance--it all just felt like it was glancing off of the waters of the bayou without marring the surface overmuch. Earlier books and events are alluded to (Voodoo for Two, Lucie and Ben's story and To Kiss a Frog, the first in the series) but I didn't really feel as if I missed too much by not having read them, nor did reading this one make me want to run right out and pick them up. This is actually the first book I've read by this author, and at the moment I'm fairly ambivalent about reading another. If the opportunity presented itself, I'd probably give her another chance if I didn't have any pressing deadlines to deal with. There wasn't anything wrong with this one--the writing was decent--it just ultimately didn't work for me.In a nutshell: Just an okay read. I wanted to like its quirkiness more than I did. 2 1/2 stars.(I received an ARC from the publisher in exchange for my honest opinion.)