Yellow Moon
May 19, 2008
Author: Jewel Parker Rhodes
Atria, August 2008
Hardcover, 304 pages
ISBN-10: 1-4165-3710-4
ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-3710-6
Loved this book! A Southern book from a whole different angle than the usual "rich eccentric Southerner living in their Grandpappy's old mansion" book.
Set in New Orleans, before Katrina (with an amusing note to self by the main character about how living below sea level was crazy), this is the story of a female ER doctor...........who also happens to be a Voodoo Priestess.
She leads a very interesting, complicated life. Single, she moved down from Chicago only to find out her last name was not the one she grew up with and that she descended from Voodoo royalty. She treats the roughest and poorest of the city. Her young daughter just happens to be an abandoned baby in the hospital which she takes home and adopts. She had a strong love affair with a cop who died in the line of duty and now she immerses herself in her work, her child........and the voodoo when she's called.
She is called in a most intense way when something from the deep water of New Orleans manages to overpower the sea god that protects New Orleans and begins killing people by sucking them dry of blood. A ghost vampire of sorts.
While battling ghostly vampires, watching friends die from the evil spirits, treating ER patients and pregnant girls that crawl out of the swamp never having even seen a doctor - she also manages to meet a very strong, kind, intense policeman, who just happens to occasionally channel her old lover. Did I also mention the evil ghost vampire has decided she's just what it needs as a playmate?
Very interesting book - I say check it out.
