Voodoo Queen by Lia Connor
Jack-O-Lanterns #4
Publisher: Changeling Press
Genre: Erotic Romance, Holiday, Paranormal, Contemporary
Rating: 3 Stars
Reviewed by AstilbeYou can’t stop the party for long!
Something big is going down in the rebuilt New Orleans, and Marie is behind the big show. She has a secret up her sleeve about who and what she is, but word is getting out.
A young stud by the name of Paul comes to check Marie out and determine whether or not she’s who she claims to be. But will he end up condemning her, or wind up in her bed?
Marie is rooting for the bed…
Halloween treats come in many forms.
The chemistry between Marie and Paul was smoking hot and couldn’t have been written more satisfyingly. That’s not something that’s always easy to accomplish between people who have never previously met each other in a short story, so kudos to Ms. Connor for heating things up between them so quickly as well as making them seem like such a good match. It paid off nicely and made me curious to read the rest of this series, too.
It would have been helpful to have a little more character development in this piece. While I wouldn’t expect as much of that as I would in a full-length novel, I did find myself wishing I could know more about why both characters were interested in spending Halloween night with a stranger and what their lives might be like after the final scene ended. Had this been included, I would have happily gone for a higher rating.
I liked seeing how the world building was woven in-between the sex scenes. Exactly enough of it was shared for me to understand what was going on without slowing down the pacing of the plot at all, although I wouldn’t mind a sequel in the future that explains things in even greater depth if the author ever plans to write one. There was still so much about New Orleans and the Voodoo Queen left to explore, especially when it came to her importance to this community.
Voodoo Queen was a wild ride.
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