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A review by scorpstar77
Moon by Jewell Parker Rhodes
4.0
Marie Laveau is an ER doctor at Charity Hospital in New Orleans, where the city's poor, uninsured, and disenfranchised go for medical treatment. She is also the great-great-great granddaughter of the infamous Marie Laveau, Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, and she has inherited her ancestor's gift for sight and healing. When a dead body turns up on the docks at the Port of New Orleans, killed in a very unusual and puzzling manner, the NOPD directs a relatively new detective from New Jersey to Dr. Laveau for further information. Between restless ghosts howling for revenge, the detectives skepticism of her voodoo powers, an unknown black spirit roaming the city, and more bodies piling up, Marie must use both her medical and her voodoo skills to find and stop the killer - and to protect herself and those around her.
Apparently, I read these all out of order, but as a first introduction to Dr. Marie Laveau, this book served its purpose fine. A sort of mash-up of detective fiction and supernatural fantasy, this book rang a lot of my bells. Marie Laveau is both strong and emotional; independent and loving; standoffish and sensual; a healer and a fighter. She is kind and gentle, but also hard as steel when she needs to be. And she's not flawless - she has some emotional baggage that she has to work to get past. I don't think I've totally gotten a good feel for her after one book because she's pretty complex. Suffice it to say, I'll be reading more books in the series!
Apparently, I read these all out of order, but as a first introduction to Dr. Marie Laveau, this book served its purpose fine. A sort of mash-up of detective fiction and supernatural fantasy, this book rang a lot of my bells. Marie Laveau is both strong and emotional; independent and loving; standoffish and sensual; a healer and a fighter. She is kind and gentle, but also hard as steel when she needs to be. And she's not flawless - she has some emotional baggage that she has to work to get past. I don't think I've totally gotten a good feel for her after one book because she's pretty complex. Suffice it to say, I'll be reading more books in the series!