She makes charms, potions, and poppets for clients, but also listens to their problems and steers them to rely on themselves first. She balances the need to pay her bills with her respect for the powers given to her by her lwa, Erzulie. Mambo Reina Dumond works from Le Petit Temple, a Vodou business she’s built from the ground up after being trained by her Haitian father. (I originally assumed this book was self-published due to the surprisingly neutral and forgettable cover for the ebook 47North turns out to be an imprint of Amazon Publishing, and they offer their acquistions through Kindle Unlimited-which is how I found it-as well as paperback and audio editions.) This second book is a departure for Henry from the dark fantasy of an evil carnival, and instead brings characters who could easily be found during a walk through your city, and a murder that feels ripped from the headlines. Unlike many past representations of Vodou, Henry focuses on the history and faith, and leaves the fetishization behind. Henry is not from New Orleans and does not practice Vodou, but she consulted experts for both, and this careful consideration shines in details and authorial voice in her mystery novel The Quarter Storm. Henry, The Quarter Storm ( Mambo Reina #1).
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