This book was received for free in return for an honest review.First off, thank you to Amazon Publishing for sending me a free physical copy in exchange for an honest review! When I first saw this book, I immediately thought, “Wow, it’s so huge! And the cover is gorgeous!” Those initial thoughts haven’t changed, fortunately. I did have a question about the very end, but there was a lot going on then and it was a very exciting may just need a re-read. I do love dual time stories and a little bit of history. I really enjoyed reading about the Adele's ancestor and the voyage of the original Casquette Girls.
Her actions and behaviors were well thought out and I'm glad that she did not completely fall for the first hunky vampire that she saw (or the second, or the third.). Adele is a very believable 16 year-old character and I got to know her very well in the first third of the story. werewolves and century-old curses fit right in. With all of it's history and culture, voodoo, witches, vampires.
The setting of the New Orleans French Quarter is spooky enough, but after the storm, the choice of the pretty much abandoned city made for an eerie setting. This story had an extremely slow build, but it was totally worth it.
A power within Adele grows and as she finds out secrets of her families past, the danger mounts. Upon their return, Adele is not only attacked by a weird bird in their house, but notices several strange but beautiful guys showing up in the abandoned city all wanting to be around her. Adele was not about to go back to the boarding school in Paris with her mother who barely saw her the entire time she was there. Adele and her father decide to return home to their storm ravaged city, thankfully their historical home has minimal damage. The Casquette Girls is a Young Adult, paranormal novel set in the aftermath of the storm in the New Orleans French Quarter. But who can you trust in a city where everyone has a secret, and where keeping them can be a matter of life and death – unless, that is, you’re immortal. Adele wants nothing more than for life to return to normal, but with the silent city resembling a mold-infested war zone, a parish-wide curfew, and mysterious new faces lurking in the abandoned French Quarter, normal will have to be redefined.Įvents too unnatural – even for New Orleans – lead Adele to an attic that has been sealed for three hundred years, and the chaos she unleashes threatens not only her life but everyone she knows.Ĭaught suddenly in a hurricane of eighteenth-century myths and monsters, Adele must quickly untangle a web of magic that links the climbing murder rate back to her own ancestors. After the Storm of the Century rips apart New Orleans, Adele Le Moyne and her father are among the first to return to the city following the mandatory evacuation.
0 kommentar(er)
