Review: Better than the first
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 17, 2014
I read Lizzy's first version of "Cursed" and the first few chapters had my skin crawling.  It was a good book but a little outside of her normal books in my opinion.  There was a lot of characters, history, and plot development in the first version.  This version flows more fluidly to me and didn't make my skin crawl reading the first few chapters.  Jayden, Adrienne, and Rene are linked in a curse that none of them seem to fully understand.  While Rene and Adrienne are quite up close and personal with the voodoo world, Jayden is a novice in the middle of the Atlantic.  In an effort to hide past indiscretions Jayden's father, the mayor of New Orleans, has hidden vital information about the curse and Jayden's linked destiny to it. The curse is embodied in Jayden's ancestor's spirit, the Red Man, who keeps showing up around the three.  Adrienne is determined to find out what happened to her sister Therese five years ago and her sisters connection to the formidable and scary Jax, Rene's brother, despite numerous warnings from people and spirits.  There is something amiss to Therese's disappearance and a suppressed memory of her sister's taste for black magic that Adrienne will either face or destroy everyone by ignoring it.  Rene is charged with protecting the streets of New Orleans and for the moment Adrienne.  And did I mention there is a serial killer loose in New Orleans praying on young women in the alleys Rene and Jax are suppose to be protecting.  Rene is a warrior but even he has trouble fighting this battle from the streets, to the spirit world, and to his relationship with his own brother.  None of them fully understand the trouble they are in or how despite religious and economical differences they are all in this together.  The only question is have they figured this out too late and will they survive.