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A review by kjcharles
A Darker Shade of Midnight by Lynn Emery
Urban fantasy in New Orleans area, with Southern gothic aplenty, family secrets, occult, loas, police corruption, and a steam-bath atmosphere.
Enjoyable but suffered from being a series starter, I think: the cast was very large and there's a lot of backstory so it took a while for the main story to kick into gear. I liked the concept (you really can't go wrong with 'woman with bad past returns to isolated home and ghastly family'), and the heroine LaShaun is extremely imperfect and hot-tempered, and thus satisfyingly relatable.
Enjoyable but suffered from being a series starter, I think: the cast was very large and there's a lot of backstory so it took a while for the main story to kick into gear. I liked the concept (you really can't go wrong with 'woman with bad past returns to isolated home and ghastly family'), and the heroine LaShaun is extremely imperfect and hot-tempered, and thus satisfyingly relatable.