Great series by an excellent author. No fast read here, with it's complex and well-researched charecter studies. Especially interesting with it's geographical descriptions of New Orleans, in light of Hurricane Katrina.
another wonderful mystery, exploring another part of the New Orleans, Creole culture.
Excellent tale of New Orleans shortly after Louisiana purchased by the United States. Ben Janvier (January) is a free man of color. His story, and that of his family, is interesting. He gets involved in a murder case due to his sister Olympe being one of the accused. Very interesting historical mystery.
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Very good book. I enjoyed the ins and outs and the story.
Hard to put down in the end.
Hard to put down in the end.
Very good, I love this series!
Once again Hambly transports us back in time to 1830s New Orleans, so vivid you can almost smell it. This book is less grim than the last - while there is danger and ugliness everywhere, it's not so gruesome as before. I found the voodoo very interesting, especially the famous Marie Laveau, and January's conflicted feelings about his sister being a voodooiene. He isn't quite sure what to believe although there are a couple occurrences that indicate actual supernatural contact. While it didn't seem complicated when I first looked at it, I did find that I had to go back and look at the geneology chart in the front of the book to figure out who's who, there are a couple nasty ruthless mothers I kept getting confused. And since I am re-reading this whole series, I do know that Hannibal is going to live for at least another nine or ten books...it seems pretty doubtful given how sick he is here, but he's gonna pull through.
Third in the Benjamin January series.
