Reviews
"[Season] is a tantalizing brew of spirituality, sensuality, and old-fashioned good storytelling-a perfect novel for anyone who loves a strong mystery beautifully told. Another winner from this great writer!" -Valerie Wilson Wesley, bestselling author of Of Blood and Sorrow, "Rhodes' tale of spiritual empowerment and prophetic vision reveals the practice of voodoo as good as well as evil. Nonbelievers along with the initiated will be riveted throughout." -- Publishers Weekly, “[Season] is a tantalizing brew of spirituality, sensuality, and old-fashioned good storytellinga perfect novel for anyone who loves a strong mystery beautifully told. Another winner from this great writer!� Valerie Wilson Wesley, bestselling author of Of Blood and Sorrow, "[A] literate page-turner . . . compelling and elegantly written."-- Tananarive Due, author ofJoplin's Ghost, "Rhodes' tale of spiritual empowerment and prophetic vision reveals the practice of voodoo as good as well as evil. Nonbelievers along with the initiated will be riveted throughout."-- Publishers Weekly, "A masterful evocation of the decadence of the Big Easy of long ago. . . . Rhodes adds beguiling glimpses into another world of ghosts, zombies, spirit gods and ritual sacrifices. The result is a riveting read." - Orlando Sentinel, “[The book’s] world of sex, malevolence, the undead, and miraculous rescue is alluring.� Booklist, "Haunting and lyrical, [Season] draws us into the fascinating world of ghosts and spirits, and the people they watch over. Jewell Parker Rhodes has created a terrific character in Marie Levant: strong, sensual and vulnerable." -Karen Siplin, critically-acclaimed author of Whiskey Road, "[A] literate page-turner . . . compelling and elegantly written."-- Tananarive Due, author of Joplin's Ghost, Jewell Parker Rhodes revisits her rich, mysterious world of New Orleans. . . . Compelling and elegantly written.� Tananarive Due, Essence bestselling author of Blood Colony|9780743483285|, "I found Voodoo Season engrossing and compelling...Jewell Parker Rhodes seems to be not only committed to fully exploring what it means to be a contemporary, dynamic woman, but also to exploring and unmasking misperceptions of Vodun/Voodoo. I admire that commitment." -- Delroy Lindo, "[The Book's] World of Sex, Malevolence, the Undead, and Miraculous Rescue Is Alluring." -- Booklist, "In Voodoo Season, Jewell Parker Rhodes revisits her rich, mysterious world of New Orleans, but this time in a contemporary mystery. In this literate page-turner,a doctor hiding from her painful past is caught in a web of ritual murder and mustrediscover the healing voodoo legacy she inherited from her great-grandmother, Marie Laveau. Compelling and elegantly written." -- Tananarive Due, author of Joplin's Ghost, "Rhodes' tale of spiritual empowerment and prophetic vision reveals the practice of voodoo as good as well as evil. Nonbelievers along with the initiated will be riveted throughout."--Publishers Weekly, " Voodoo Season is a tantalizing brew of spirituality, sensuality, and old-fashioned good storytelling -- a perfect novel for anyone who loves a strong mystery beautifully told. Another winner from this great writer!" -- Valerie Wilson Wesley, author of Playing My Mother's Blues, "Haunting and lyrical, Voodoo Season draws us into the fascinating worldof ghosts and spirits, and the people they watch over. Jewell Parker Rhodes has created a terrific character in Marie Levant: strong, sensual and vulnerable." -- Karen Siplin, author of Such a Girl, "[A] literate page-turner . . . compelling and elegantly written." -- Tananarive Due, author of Joplin's Ghost, "Jewell Parker Rhodes revisits her rich, mysterious world of New Orleans. . . . Compelling and elegantly written." -Tananarive Due, Essence bestselling author of Blood Colony, "[The book's] world of sex, malevolence, the undead, and miraculous rescue is alluring."-- "Booklist"