" I wanted to love this book...but it was hard to get through and took me forever. I couldn't at all identify with the characters. Probably because i'm a middle aged white woman in the year 2012, but still, there should be some humanity to the characters everyone can relate to. You will not find this here. It was pretty graphic sexually and violently. The author made the book hard to read simply because the chapters all felt the same. It was redundant and sad. I wanted to feel something for Marie Laveau, since I have heard so much about her in New Orleans history. This book is a fictitious account of her, of course, which is good...Otherwise I would give up on trying to learn more about her. This book was strange. I'm sure others will enjoy it though. "
— Jeri, 12/31/2013