Title: The Voodoo
Killings
Author: Kristi
Charish
Series: Kincaid
Strange #1
Synopsis:
“Introducing Kincaid Strange, not your average Voodoo practitioner… For
starters, she’s only twenty-seven. And
she lives in rain-soaked Seattle, which is not exactly Haiti. And she’s broke. Since raising zombies was outlawed, she has
had to eke out a living by running séances for university students desperate
for guitar lessons with the ghost of a grunge rocker – who happens to be
Kincaid’s roommate.
“Still, when a
stray zombie turns up outside her local bar, she tries to help. But not only is it dangerous for her to be
caught with an unauthorized zombie, she soon realizes the zombie is tied to a
spate of unsolved murders. Someone is
killing the zombies and voodoo practitioners connected to Seattle’s infamous Underground
City, a paranormal hub. When the police
refuse to investigate, the City’s oldest and foremost zombie asks Kincaid to
help. She doesn’t want to chase a
murderer: she’s broke but she’s not stupid…
“But then she
becomes the target.”
Review: This is
one of the best books that you’ve never heard of. I hadn’t heard a peep about this book, and I
follow a lot of book blogs, bookstagrams, and publishers. But then a new friend of mine posted, on Facebook,
that she had read it and enjoyed it. I
wanted a physical copy, not a Kindle copy, and it was really hard to find! I live in Western NY and finally found a copy
from a seller in Canada. It took over 2
weeks to arrive and by the time it came I had kind of forgotten I’d ordered
it. So it was a nice little surprise!
This is one of
the best books I’ve read in a long time.
I liked the world, and the characters are well developed. The plot itself reads a lot like a
“who-dun-it”, and I really had no idea until the very end who the bad guy
really was. I read a lot of zombie
novels, and this is not your normal zombie novel. The Voodoo Killings is a fun, fast-paced romp
through a paranormal world full of strange and wonderful things. I highly recommend fans of urban fantasy give
the novels of Kristi Charish a try. I
can’t wait for the next book about Kincaid Strange!
Publisher: Penguin Random House/ Vintage Canada
If you like this book you may want to read:
City of Light (Outcast Novels #1) by Keri Arthur
Blood of the Earth (Soulwood Novel #1) by Faith Hunter
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