My Review
5 plus
What a great read. I felt like I was watching this book as a movie (or show) the whole time and hearing their voices. The author is very skillful in creating awesome characters with very distinct personalities. She loses no time in setting the mood and vibe of the story with a gore attack and then showing us a scene at the funeral home almost comical. This will introduce the Evans Women to the reader and all will keep us glued to the pages. I couldn't put it down and read it in one sitting. The southern language, expressions, and Ducey's habits and answers add to the charm. Now I need to have some butterscotch candy.
Multiple POV with a hint of practical magic, small-town mystery, with evil rising (literally) from the grave. Has its red herring and plot twists, and the author drags the answers and revelations to the very last moment. Great ending. This is my first contact reading this author, but l look forward to reading more titles.
Thank you, NetGalley and Publisher for this arc.
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From the Publisher: MacMillan
A crackling mystery-horror novel with big-hearted characters and Southern charm with a bite, Bless Your Heart is a gasp-worthy delight from start to finish from debut author Lindy Ryan.
Rise and shine. The Evans women have some undead to kill.
It’s 1999 in Southeast Texas and the Evans women, owners of the only funeral parlor in town, are keeping steady with…normal business. The dead die, you bury them. End of story. That’s how Ducey Evans has done it for the last eighty years, and her progeny—Lenore the experimenter and Grace, Lenore’s soft-hearted daughter, have run Evans Funeral Parlor for the last fifteen years without drama. Ever since That Godawful Mess that left two bodies in the ground and Grace raising her infant daughter Luna, alone.
But when town gossip Mina Jean Murphy’s body is brought in for a regular burial and she rises from the dead instead, it’s clear that the Strigoi—the original vampire—are back. And the Evans women are the ones who need to fight back to protect their town.
As more folks in town turn up dead and Deputy Roger Taylor begins asking way too many questions, Ducey, Lenore, Grace, and now Luna, must take up their blades and figure out who is behind the Strigoi’s return. As the saying goes, what rises up, must go back down. But as unspoken secrets and revelations spill from the past into the present, the Evans family must face that sometimes, the dead aren’t the only things you want to keep buried.
"A gloriously gruesome, compulsively readable debut that is as grizzly as it is clever and heartfelt." - Rachel Harrison
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