Yellow Moon, Jewell Parker Rhodes
Yellow Moon, Jewell Parker Rhodes
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Yellow Moon

Author: Jewell Parker Rhodes

Narrator: Myra Lucretia Taylor

Unabridged: 8 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/15/2010


Synopsis

The second novel in Jewell Parker Rhodes' acclaimed Voodoo series, Yellow Moon finds New Orleans' preeminent voodoo practitioner hunting an African vampire -a wazimamoto. Marie Levant is tired of seeing corpses drained of blood arrive at the hospital each night, and tired of being haunted by their ghosts. It'll take all her skills to expel the deadly spirit in this "satisfying and eerie story that lies somewhere between the work of Anne Rice and James Lee Burke" (Kirkus).

About Jewell Parker Rhodes

Dr. Jewell Parker Rhodes is the author of six adult novels: Voodoo Dreams, Magic City, Douglass’ Women, Season, Moon, and Hurricane, as well as the memoir Porch Stories: A Grandmother’s Guide to Happiness and two writing guides, Free within Ourselves: Fiction Lessons for Black Authors and The African American Guide to Writing and Publishing Nonfiction. Jewell is also the author of seven books for youth, including the New York Times bestsellers Ghost Boys and Black Brother, Black Brother. She has won the American Book Award, the Black Caucus of the American Library Award for Literary Excellence, and the Jane Addams Peace Association Book Award. Jewell is the founding artistic director of the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing and narrative studies professor and Virginia G. Piper endowed chair at Arizona State University. She was awarded an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Carnegie-Mellon University. She lives in Seattle, Washington.


Reviews

This is the second book in a trilogy, the first being Voodoo Season. I wish I had read the first book before reading this one as some of the things would have made more sense as the author assumes you are familiar with the main characters and their situations. Dr. Marie Laveau, now a full-fledged do......more

Goodreads review by Nina

Too young adult for my taste; a typical Y/A scenario where the main character has the power and skill to save everyone. There was not enough suspense or excitement.......more