{"id":9738,"date":"2022-05-04T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=9738"},"modified":"2022-05-03T19:08:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T23:08:43","slug":"the-quarter-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=9738","title":{"rendered":"The Quarter Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Veronica G. Henry\u2019s The Quarter Storm <\/em>introduces a stubborn young Haitian-American woman, Mambo Reina Dumond, working as a vodou practitioner in New Orleans. This is not a genre of book I\u2019d usually read, but I definitely enjoyed it. A certain amount of suspension of disbelief is necessary with any book involving the supernatural, but Reina was so believable, it wasn\u2019t a difficult stretch to just go with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As you might imagine, Reina\u2019s social circle is not the usual. Her best friend owns a bar\/restaurant, and he is trying without great success to teach her to cook. When she needs help finding someone, she calls on a young woman who has no fixed address. And her ex-boyfriend (hard to say how ex he really is) is a New Orleans police detective who has no patience for vodou practices and traditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trouble begins when a young man is murdered in what appears to be a ritual way in the apartment above a French Quarter vodou shop. The shop owner is arrested. Reina, whose vodou practice is geared toward helping, not hurting people, nevertheless thinks it\u2019s ridiculous to believe a practitioner would jeopardize her business by committing such a vicious crime on her own premises. She sets out to prove the woman innocent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The city\u2019s wealthiest and most successful practitioner of their branch of vodou refuses to help. He, her father, and everyone else is warning her off the case, but Reina keeps on digging. Such a blot on the reputation of her style of vodou is intolerable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reading this book, I really felt as if I\u2019d spent some time in an exotic place, much like my experience with the other two New Orleans books lately reviewed her<\/a>e, which explore totally different sides of this iconic city,.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Order The Quarter Storm<\/em> here from Amazon<\/a>
Or here from an independent bookselle<\/a>r.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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