Royal Street
Sept 2012 · Sentinels of New Orleans Book 1 · Hachette UK
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As the junior wizard sentinel for New Orleans, Drusilla Jaco spends more of her time mixing potions and retrieving pixies than she does sniffing out supernatural bad guys that slip over from the preternatural beyond. It is DJ's eccentric boss and mentor, Gerald St. Simon, who is tasked with protecting the city. But when Hurricane Katrina hammers the city's fragile levees, it unleashes more than just flood waters. As the winds howl and Lake Pontchartrain surges, the borders between the modern city and the Otherworld start to crumble away ... Now the dead and the restless are roaming the Big Easy, and a serial killer with ties to voodoo is murdering soldiers sent to help the city recover. To make it worse, Gerald St. Simon has gone missing, the wizards' Elders have assigned a grenade-toting asshat as DJ's new partner, and the pirate Jean Lafitte - who has an impressive libido for a 200-year-old - wants her to walk his plank. If she is going to survive, DJ will have to learn that loyalty requires sacrifice, allies can be found in unlikely places ... and that duty mixed with love creates one bitter gumbo.
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Damian Southam
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31 January 2016
The mix up of raw and potion magic, real information and fiction, humourous monologue with action/drama, make this new urban fantasy series a real pleasure to read. DJ is shaping up to be a real powerhouse of a heroine, especially if her heretofore elven magic is explored in greater detail. Certainly I'll be adding Ms. Johnson to my list of followed authors and equally I'm looking forward to reading the second contribution to this series, River Road. Together with this and the many other fantasy novels I've read set in the same geographical location(s), it's becoming quite apparent that New Orleans is a place steeped in magic, cultural diversity and much respected folk lore. A great new read and a very original storyline that's also, quite appreciatively, not bordering on or near romance-heavy exemplars, that are flooding the various fantasy sub-genres; I definitely recommend reading Royal Street!
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About the author
Suzanne Johnson is a magazine editor, respected reviewer and feature writer with more than fifty national writing and editing awards to her name. She has spent much of her life in New Orleans, and helped rebuild for two years after Hurricane Katrina.
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