Review: Great start to the series!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 27, 2014
This Place is Death is the prequel to Denise Grover Swank’s The Curse Keepers of The Curse Keeper series. If you haven’t read The Curse Keepers yet, it will be helpful to read this first. It helps to explain how the curse began. Settlers from England including Ananias and his wife and baby have crossed the ocean in search of new beginnings. They end up off the Virginian Coast on Roanoke Island. But the natives don’t want them there. Their Croatan friend and guide, Manteo, has a horrible dream or vision of something so horrible that he is forced to do something unbelievable to protect his people. But in order to achieve this protection, sacrifices have to be made. Thus the start of the legend of The Curse Keepers. After reading this, I do understand better the origins of the curse and the hatred between the two families carrying the curse.