Deep in the swamps of the Louisiana
bayou, a horrifying secret lies waiting to be discovered: a chilling legendary a
beast born from a curse…the Rougarou. Emma Rose Crane lets hunter Cass Willow
convince her to help him on a ghost hunt, she never imagined she’d be trudging
through the swamps, let alone stumbling upon a mess of mangled bodies—or
running into the creature responsible for the rotting remains. When the
creature attacks, it infects them with the same curse which drove it mad. There
is only one hope—kill the beast to cure the infection before they succumb to
the hunger eating them alive.
The cover is intriguing with an offer of seeing through a thin veil into the paranormal world beyond – legendary
creatures, curses, demon, angels and of course Louisiana voodoo. The title
takes the reader more deeply into the series The Crane Diaries and the
complicated and complex members of the Crane family, especially the protagonist.
All the characters are three dimensional and well developed. The plot flows, except
the extended passages referring to previous books, creating the feeling the reader
needs to read the whole series in order to understand this book. It could
otherwise easily stand-alone since all the plot elements are there. Some
careful content editing could eliminate this problem. The dialogue is genuine
and moves the storyline forward as do the chapters. The copyediting was spot
on.
Readers of previous books in the
series should note that Baker is moving Emma from a strictly young adult genre
to a college-age romance and thus into more sexual settings. There is an
abundance of kisses and very warm hugs and a lot of lap sitting. Although the
last scene leads us into a bedroom scene, the act itself is beyond the pages of
the book. Following titles may well move into more adult situations.
Baker grew up in the mountains of West
Virginia where she now lives. She loves scary movies, books, writing books, and
entertaining people with her “silly stories.”
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