Review: A Duppy is Riding Her Back
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 7, 2013
Rachel Stephens, living in Barbados, is an out of work, twenty-something, heartbroken girl, with a impressive but useless degree. She is estranged from her mother and her doting father is no longer among the living, but then again neither is her nighttime visitor. Or so she is led to believe. With the help of her best friend Tillie she is off to find out the cause of her debilitating nightmares.The concept of the book initially, is quite intriguing. In other cultures there are beliefs, old and grounded it its culture, that make for wonderful stories. In the Shadow Guardian it would have been the duppy. Unfortunately, Browning trades the duppy for another, unsuspected ending, that doesn't quite fit in with the rest of the story and has continuity problems.An easy read, Browning works excellent characters and descriptions into the story.