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The Quarter Storm: A Novel (Mambo Reina Book 1) by [Veronica G. Henry]

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A practitioner of Vodou must test the boundaries of her powers to solve a ritual murder in New Orleans and protect everything she holds sacred.

Haitian-American Vodou priestess Mambo Reina Dumond runs a healing practice from her New Orleans home. Gifted with water magic since she was a child, Reina is devoted to the benevolent traditions of her ancestors.

After a ritual slaying in the French Quarter, police arrest a fellow vodouisant. Detective Roman Frost, Reina’s ex-boyfriend—a fierce nonbeliever—is eager to tie the crime, and half a dozen others, to the Vodou practitioners of New Orleans. Reina resolves to find the real killer and defend the Vodou practice and customs, but the motives behind the murder are deeper and darker than she imagines.

As Reina delves into the city’s shadows, she untangles more than just the truth behind a devious crime. It’s a conspiracy. As a killer wields dangerous magic to thwart Reina’s investigation, she must tap into the strength of her own power and faith to solve a mystery that threatens to destroy her entire way of life.

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“…this hits the sweet spot of eschewing overdone tropes while retaining the familiar elements that draw fans to the genre. Readers will hope to see more of Mambo Reina.” —Publishers Weekly

“The Quarter Storm conjures up an intriguing mystery that draws readers away from New Orleans’s famous tourist spots for a story filled with twists, turns, and unexpected discoveries that will leave them eager for more. Because there’s no better sleuth to handle a murder in New Orleans than a Vodou priestess.” —Nicole Glover, author of The Conductors

“Henry gives us a captivating mystery full of fantasy and African traditional religion, as well as a bewitching investigator, rooted in her faith, dedicated to her community, and dogged in her pursuit of the truth.” —Eden Royce, author of Root Magic

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There are certain once-in-a-lifetime events whose impacts radiate beyond the places they occur, throughout the country and even the world. They change our collective experience, and the locations where these things happen are forever linked with these incidents. New Orleans, for example, will always be connected to Hurricane Katrina in our minds. It’s against this backdrop that we meet Reina Dumond, a Vodou priestess with magical gifts and the protagonist of Veronica G. Henry’s new contemporary fantasy series.

In the years following Hurricane Katrina, one of the most destructive storms of the century, Mambo Reina stumbles upon a murder in the French Quarter, and everyone’s trying to pin it on Vodou. But what she discovers is a conspiracy dating back to the hurricane that devastated her city. And who better to uncover the truth than a woman who wields the power of water itself?

Just as in her debut novel, Bacchanal, Henry explores real societal issues in The Quarter Storm. But like all good fantasy, this book is also an escape. Because following the adventures of Mambo Reina allows us to imagine how we could change the world if we had supernatural abilities too.

—Adrienne Procaccini, Editor

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B091PQ96YZ
Publisher ‏ : ‎ 47North (March 1, 2022)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 1, 2022
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 5105 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 287 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #8,141 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #4 in Black & African American Fantasy Fiction (Books)
- #4 in Black & African American Fantasy Fiction (Kindle Store)
- #26 in Fantasy (Kindle Store)

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Veronica G. Henry is the author of Bacchanal, and The Quarter Storm and The Foreign Exchange in the Mambo Reina series. Her work has debuted at #1 on multiple Amazon bestseller charts, was chosen as an editors’ pick for Best African American Fantasy, and shortlisted for the Manly Wade Wellman Award. She is a Viable Paradise alum and a member of SFWA and MWA. Her stories have appeared, or are forthcoming, in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and FIYAH Literary Magazine. She is a graduate of the Viable Paradise Workshop and a member of SFWA and MWA.

She now writes from North Carolina, where she eschews rollerballs for fountain pens and fine paper. Other untreated addictions include chocolate and cupcakes. For more information, visit www.veronicahenry.net.

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Connie unclebach

The first story I have ever read about voudisants.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 4, 2023

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When i started reading I didn't understand a thing she was talking about. The grammar, the words, the content, none of it. But i told myself to keep reading and I'm glad I did. She clearly knows New Orleans, folk lore and the spirits. Sprinkle in a murder mystery. What's not to love about that. In the end I understood the language, the story and gained a new admiration for the city of New Orleans.

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Enjoyable mystery: slightly slow start

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 29, 2022

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I'll start by saying I got this book for free from Amazon First reads. I enjoy murder mystery/supernatural/witchy themes-- which is why I chose this one to read. No spoilers below.

What I liked:

I loved the history of vodou and the insight into the practice that the author wove into the story.
The main character is easy to like, and you really do feel every high and low that she goes though. She's smart, caring, and she holds to her convictions no matter what happens. She isn't perfect, but she doesn't need to be. She's confident when it matters, and vulnerable to those she cares about. I thought she was really well written.
The mystery aspect is interesting and although I was able to figure out who was responsible very early on, it was still satisfying to watch the main character put it all together.
I also learned a bit about the murders committed by the new Orleans police during hurricane Katrina. I didn't really know anything about that and had to Google it while reading. The fact that it happened and that they tried to cover it up is disgusting, but not surprising.

What could have been better:

I'm not fond of books written in the first person, and tend to avoid them. Main characters tend to be unreliable narrators, and at times the book did seem to drag on just a bit while we followed along in the main character's day to day life. Sometimes it served to build character relationships, but at times it just felt a bit slow. But this might just be a personal preference.
I also didn't like the cop ex boyfriend at all. Felt like he was horrible for an otherwise smart and self reliant main character. Hopefully in the next book, he won't be such a prominent character.
The book does leave a few lose ends untied, but the main story did end well enough so that it doesn't feel like a cliffhanger.

Overall I enjoyed reading it and will probably read the sequel when it is released.

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Interesting exploration

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 24, 2022

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I don't think I'll ever forget watching as Katrina tore through New Orleans, and the utter failure of the local, state, and federal government to help those so.obviously in need after the storm passed. This book.delves into a side of the city that ome.wouldn't know existed if you didn't live there. Well-written, well-developed, and uniquely heartbreaking, Veronica G. Henry does a wonderful job using a vodousaint to guide readers through the spirit that is New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Queen of Swords

An engaging heroine who practices voudou that is both powerful and limited

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 1, 2022

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I received this book from the Amazon First Reads program. I don't have a Goodreads shelf for "Mystery," but I really enjoyed this one.

"The Quarter Storm" could be classified as Urban Fantasy because the narrator/heroine is a voudon mambo whose powers have far more direct and dramatic impact on the world than most of us would consider likely in the 'real world.' It's also a mystery because the plot is driven by Reina's need to figure out who killed someone and made it look like a voudou practitioner was responsible.

I liked it because author Henry set very clear (and seemingly realistic) boundaries on what Reina could and could not do with her powers and what the price was when she broke the rules of her role. The voudon and the lwa are presented as worthy of respect.

Reina's power is also boundaried by her material-life circumstances: the need for money, the challenges of being a Black woman (even in a novel and geographic area consisting primarily of Black people), her fraught relationship with her ex-lover who is a cop, her complicated relationship with her father, and her longing for her mother who has been missing since Hurricane Katrina. The hurricane provides a chronological and emotional blackground for the story, and eventually points to possible plot developments to come. In addition to Reina's individual relationships with nicely detailed supporting characters, there is also a strong emphasis on community: how it is defined, who gets to define it, and its challenges, obligations, and blessings. This too becomes a source of potential future plot developments.

In sum: this is an enjoyable book with an engaging POV character, and it creates and solves a meaningful mystery while planting seeds to be developed in a series.

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LadyOtheLake

Nice mystery with new Orleans flair

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 2, 2022

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Strong female role with an unusual voodoo capacity takes the reader in a hang through a side of new Orleans seldom revealed, bird by strong and wall developed supporting characters.

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Toni

Has pacing issues

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 3, 2022

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I read this before it's release date of 01 March 2022 thanks to Amazon First Reads.

I'm not entirely sure what to write about this book. I didn't feel anything for any of the characters, the pace felt uneven so some bits felt like they dragged while others left me feeling like I'd skipped a paragraph or even a page but going back made me realise that I hadn't missed anything. It was also quite heavy on western religion than I expected for a book focusing on Haitian Vodou. However I did like all the descriptions of food and the atmosphere of New Orleans.

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LEM

Pretentious convoluted writing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 9, 2022

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First one and a half sentences: "The mind could conjure all kinds of fanciful scenarios to assuage the guilt of a poor choice of last words. In my favored delusion, my mother and I were chatting it up....." It goes downhill from there.

I cannot comment on whether the characters are well-developed or the plot well-constructed as I found the prose unreadable.

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PamJade

Raced through this, loved it & pre-ordered the next in series.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 6, 2022

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I ordered this through Amazon First Reads and I am delighted that it was brought to my attention. I love reading about places and situations that are new to me and this certainly met those criteria! The experiences related here gave me a brief glimpse into another life which was fascinating. Leaving aside the magical elements, I learnt more about New Orleans such as the areas, history, food and “shotgun houses”, as well as the links between Vodou (the spelling is deliberate) & Christianity. I often read fantasy but this was a whole other realm and an intriguing one. I found the characters well-rounded and believable, with a neatly crafted detective story besides. Thank you Veronica, everything I enjoy in a mystery.

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Enjoyable read, definitely a just one more chapter before sleep

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 16, 2022

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An enjoyable read, definitely a 'Just one more Chapter before I go to sleep' . Only gave it 3 stars as it got bit fuzzy towards the end, although I think I understood where the author was aiming.

The Chapter about confronting the storm, would have been better at the start. Where it appears, it is was waffle. It placed near the start,it could have been used to show how Mambo Reina had grown, so maybe in the future she would be able to more impact. But all in all I look forward to reading more about Mambo Reina

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Philip Chadwick

a curious and rather fractured book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 17, 2022

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first in a series (what isn't?) this does have sufficient interest to at least have a look at the next book
it is however a bit of a mish mash of subject and styles, the more interesting aspects - voodoo and the characters - being somewhat underdeveloped
competently written and structured, I feel the author needs a good editor to crystallise the various aspects and bring them into a more cohesive and structured world

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