Cheryl (bratvet) - , reviewed on 9/7/2010 + 5 more book reviews

I normally would give a Nevada Barr book a 4 or 5 star review because I like the Anna Pigeon character - her intelligence, her initiative, her strengths, her humanity - and have read all of the books in the series. This book, however, was extremely difficult for me to read. For one thing, I'm not particularly interested in voodoo. it's been overdone, in my opinion, in too many books and, with Anna back in New Orleans, it's a part of this story. That aside, the child sex slavery part of this story, particularly focused on such young children, had me putting the book down numerous times, determined not to finish it. This particular deviance, loathsome as it is and apparently very much on the rise around the world and in the U.S, tends to make me despise men in general and, of course, the women who help them. Of course, realistically I know that most men don't succumb to that part of their psyche that desires such travesties; however, the idea that the possibility is there is distasteful. Off my soapbox now: the writing is great, as usual, and I did finish the book to find out 1) how Anna survived, and @) whether the mother ever finds her two little girls. Anymore and I'll give away too much of the plot.

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