A review by skfritz
The Voodoo Killings by Kristi Charish

1.0

Honestly, I wanted to like this. I received an ARC from the publisher, and was excited to see it labelled as urban fantasy, because I'm a huge fan of Patricia Briggs and Rachel Vincent and the like. I think my problems revolved around the fact that there was a lot of world-building that kept me quite confused. Maybe a personal understanding of the Seattle Underground would have made it clearer (that whole scene where they enter the underground just bewildered me), but the combination of ghosts in mirrors and a special sight and levels of zombie reanimation... it was just a lot all at once. (I'm also not a huge fan of zombies, so that probably didn't help. My fave urban fantasies are definitely about shapeshifters). I kept reading about 4 chapters past where I initially wanted to stop in case I was just shy of the thing that would hook my interest, but I still only made it about 40% of the way through this book before I put it down for good. I've never read another Kristi Charish novel, but I have to say, this probably wasn't the best introduction I could have had.