Book Title: BLACKWATER (Book 1, Blackwater Witches Series)
Book Author: Tara Brown
Genre: Supernatural Thriller
This book is placed in the 60's, in the deep South of Louisiana. Debutantes attending "Finishing School" to learn how to make the perfect tea sandwiches, Politics, Arranging Marriages to move the family name up into the higher echelons of governmental authority. Regardless of whether or not children marry for love, or even if they may be in harms way. I learned quite a bit from that first part of the book.
The characters in this story are built up quickly, and the reader becomes fond of them creating the bond that allows the author to play with the mind of the reader a bit. When that door is open to the imagination, almost anything can and usually does happen, when the book is written correctly. This one is! We fall in love with Lorelei. She's a teenager hearing voices in her dreams, warning her of evil coming. She wakes frequently.
We met her best friend, who in the time frame we're meeting him, is simply known in "society" as her driver. They tell each other almost everything. Almost. Ramon calls her a Goddess, and does everything in his power to keep her safe.
Her best girlfriend attends school with her. She's, deep down, a party girl, but loyalty and friendship are hand in hand for her, and she'd do anything for Lorelei. Anything. Angie is the best girlfriend any girl could ask for, almost like a sister. They share secrets at school and talk about everything. Almost everything.
Lorelei's parents are polar opposites. She's a "daddy's girl". When she's arguing with her mother, she petitions her father, like all girls do when they're "daddy's girl". Her mother, prides herself on her looks, prides herself on her status, her money, her china, her entertaining skills, yet she doesn't pride herself about Lorelei. She's constantly putting her down, calling her names. She also has her husband, to make her look good. But when she doesn't get her way, wait.. she always seems to get her way.
Daddy is a work-a-holic. But he enjoys a good party like any man. And being doted on by the women, well, that's part of living in the South! Bourbon in one hand and Cigar in the other after dinner, while the women go to the parlor to giggle and chat.
Lorelei's sister also gets her mother's wrath, but not as often. Being younger, she has yet to be entered into to society as Lorelei has. She has yet to experience the side of their mother, that Lorelei has. The mean, wicked side that stops at nothing to get what she wants.
All these characters line up for the dance that is book one in the Blackwater Witches Series. I adored the Southern Drawl written into the book. I loved the interactions between friends, the sadness shared, and other things. I absolutely love that Lorelei learns new things, and finds herself. But she doesn't like it because it came it at a high cost. A very high cost. But, love isn't free in the debutante world of the South, is it?
I guarantee if you read this book, you'll not want to put it down. It's fast-paced, filled with action and emotion, a little supernatural "ju-ju" courtesy of Louisiana and a little town, a little river, and a little house with a lot of it. ("Ju-Ju" that is.) When you get to the end, quicker than you thought you would, you'll go searching for the second book, knowing it's a series. May I suggest you read some of Tara's other books, as it seems she's leaving us hanging for a bit! GO READ THIS NOW!!
4.8 out of 5 Bookmarks
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