Homicide Below Redwood Moon by Sherri L. Dodd
My score: 3 of 5 stars
Homicide Below Redwood Moon is a up to date white witch themed new grownup story.
The narrative opens with a daunting scene; the dad and mom of eight yr previous Arista uncover that her uncle has darkish plans of an occult nature for the kid. They take motion, secreting her away in a small Californian city to be raised by her nice aunt.
Arista’s story continues; now aged twenty-three, she practices white witchcraft below the tutelage of Nice Aunt Bethie, she lives in a home with a ghost and has a cat that she calmly thinks of as her ‘acquainted’. Aunt Bethie has at all times been conscious that in the future Arista’s uncle could uncover the place she hides and can come to complete off what he began all these years in the past.
In the meantime an area younger lady goes lacking and her physique turns up disposed of in a river. Crime on this small city is uncommon, so the homicide is especially surprising―much more so when a second physique is found. To compound their feeling of unease, Arista has been experiencing ‘visions’, and Aunt Bethie is satisfied that her niece is in grave hazard.
All the weather involving witchcraft had been very effectively written with a lot of discuss in regards to the energy of crystals and small rituals. These had been the highlights of the e-book and confirmed the writer’s data on this space. Nonetheless, they had been let down by weaker components of the story. I didn’t really feel that the dialogue and actions of the characters of their early twenties mirrored these of their age. The selection of dialogue and household conditions would have been a greater match if the characters had been youngsters. I additionally thought that a number of the extra necessary occasions wanted a bit extra element to make them plausible.
Total, a narrative with a lot of promise that might enhance with developmental edit to raise it to its full potential.
Ebook description:
On the age of eight, Arista Kelly was frantically swept up by her dad and mom and whisked off to an remoted city within the California redwoods. Two days later, her dad and mom had been gone.
Now on the age of twenty-three, she has settled fairly properly into an eclectic life-style, very like her nice aunt, and guardian since childhood, Bethie. She enjoys using herbs and crystals to assist her commune with the vitality and nature round her and finds pleasure within the firm of her beloved pet, Royal. Often fairly glad together with her mundane life excessive within the Santa Cruz Mountains, life turns into unsettling when a brand new recurring imaginative and prescient of an ominous tattoo in addition to elevated exercise from the ghostly presence inside her personal cottage invade her once-harmonious existence.
However life on this mountain sanctuary takes an excellent darker flip when the physique of Arista’s former classmate is discovered within the close by river. As different younger girls fall prey to a suspected serial killer, Arista realizes that the phobia is coming to her.
