Review: Started Off wIth Such Promise
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 2, 2014
I love the city of N'awlins & am immediately drawn to any story which draws on the city for inspiration.  When I started reading this book, the 10-year old voodoo-relate CRIME of a child killing her mother drew me in, & I looked forward to reading what I thought would be a story in which the practice of voodoo would play a predominant role.  That , unfortunately, was not the case at all.  Having now read the whole book, I have to say that I am really not sure what the book was about - just a lot of senseless killings that had some tenuous link, at best, to the original 10-yr old murder that actually had nothing to do with voodoo.  Additionally, except for Val, the characters were not at all relatable. And, as noted by other reviewers, sloppy grammar/punctuation permeated the book.