3.5
Lipstick Voodoo
ByPublisher Description
Kincaid Strange, not your average voodoo practitioner, is back in the freshly imagined and hugely entertaining second installment of Kristi Charish's urban fantasy series.
Kincaid Strange cannot catch a break. After dealing with a spate of paranormal murders, there's barely time to recuperate--let alone sleep in--before there's a new problem in Kincaid's world of paranormal activity. When her roommate, Nathan Cade--the ghost of a grunge-rocker with a pathological lack of self-control--comes home bound to a dead body, it's up to Kincaid to figure out how to free him. Ideally before her new mentor, Gideon, a powerful sorcerer's ghost, discovers that Nate is trapped in the body he'd coveted for himself.
When Aaron, a Seattle cop on the afterlife beat--and Kincaid's ex--calls her in to help out with a cold case, she takes the chance to mend fences with the police department. The problem: they want to interview Nate's ghost, which she can't produce. Then people from Nate's past start showing up dead, and what's killing them doesn't seem to be human. And the way it's killing them is especially brutal.
Nate's hiding something, but he's Kincaid's friend and she wants to help him. But she also wants to stay alive....
Kincaid Strange cannot catch a break. After dealing with a spate of paranormal murders, there's barely time to recuperate--let alone sleep in--before there's a new problem in Kincaid's world of paranormal activity. When her roommate, Nathan Cade--the ghost of a grunge-rocker with a pathological lack of self-control--comes home bound to a dead body, it's up to Kincaid to figure out how to free him. Ideally before her new mentor, Gideon, a powerful sorcerer's ghost, discovers that Nate is trapped in the body he'd coveted for himself.
When Aaron, a Seattle cop on the afterlife beat--and Kincaid's ex--calls her in to help out with a cold case, she takes the chance to mend fences with the police department. The problem: they want to interview Nate's ghost, which she can't produce. Then people from Nate's past start showing up dead, and what's killing them doesn't seem to be human. And the way it's killing them is especially brutal.
Nate's hiding something, but he's Kincaid's friend and she wants to help him. But she also wants to stay alive....
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3.5
“I received this book in exchange for an honest review, which has not altered my opinion of this book in any way.
I am sad to say that it took me this long to get to this book, the first one was so well done and I read it so quickly, this book was no different. The intensity is so high and the stakes shoot skyward throughout this book and I can’t express how exciting this book is. Mythology has always been an interest to me and I love how this book pulls on different stories and how there are different traditions based on where you live.
Our main character, Kincaid Strange, is brutal and I mean that in several different ways. She is brutal in how she deals with specific aspects of her work because that is how she has learned that it is the best way for her to deal with the deceased. She is brutal in her determination to solve any case or problem that is presented to her through a job or through her day to day life as a voodoo practitioner. While I would love to have her on my team, she would be scary but if you have her loyalty it stays through life and death. At one point, she is accused of preferring the dead to the living and I really identified with that…whelp! Nate is a ghost that we meet in the first book, I won’t talk much about what happened in this book to avoid spoilers for the second book but all I can say is that while Nate was his normal annoying self I am so glad that we got a good look into his history and got some closure for him.
This book had me on the edge of my seat especially for the second half of it. Unfortunately the first bit was a bit repetitive from the first book but I did enjoy it. I highly recommend this book and series and now that I have my hands on the third book in the series, I plan on reading it very soon!!”
About Kristi Charish
KRISTI CHARISH is the author of Owl and the Japanese Circus and Owl and the City of Angels and the first book in the Kincaid Strange series, The Voodoo Killings. She has a background in archeology and a Ph.D. in zoology from the University of British Columbia. She has worked as a scientific adviser on projects such as fantasy and SF writer Diana Rowland's series White Trash Zombie, and is the co-host of the Adventures in Sci-Fi Publishing Podcast. She lives in Vancouver.
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