Published: April 09, 2012
Words: 80,012 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781476099460

Short description

Teenage voodoo queen, Joan Renault, just wants to be like everybody else and not labeled a hoodoo hag. However, when her ex-best friend unleashes the power of Pandora's Box into a voodoo love spell, Greek myths threaten to take over Joan's small town. It's up to her to find a way to stop the mayhem and come to terms with her freaky voodoo heritage.

Extended description

As a sixteen year old voodoo queen in the making, Joan Renault just wants to be like all the other girls in the small town of Monte Parish, Louisiana—obsessed with boys and swamped with social lives. If the other kids would quit calling her “hoodoo hag,” she might have a small shot at normality. It would also help if Joan’s weekend outings with her secret crush, Dave, weren’t always being interrupted by her dead Grandmere, the legendary Marie Laveau. After all, it’s hard to make out with your best friend when your grandmother is watching! But when you come from a long line of voodoo priestesses with dried gator heads decorating the wall of their huts, normal doesn’t come easily.

When Joan witnesses the brutal sacrifice of a child to a tree Druid, she learns her Grandmere’s scandalous past has come back to haunt those living in the present. Hera, a vengeful voodoo priestess is determined to use the residual energy of Pandora’s Box to revive a sleeping voodoo god a.. (Read more) As a sixteen year old voodoo queen in the making, Joan Renault just wants to be like all the other girls in the small town of Monte Parish, Louisiana—obsessed with boys and swamped with social lives. If the other kids would quit calling her “hoodoo hag,” she might have a small shot at normality. It would also help if Joan’s weekend outings with her secret crush, Dave, weren’t always being interrupted by her dead Grandmere, the legendary Marie Laveau. After all, it’s hard to make out with your best friend when your grandmother is watching! But when you come from a long line of voodoo priestesses with dried gator heads decorating the wall of their huts, normal doesn’t come easily.

When Joan witnesses the brutal sacrifice of a child to a tree Druid, she learns her Grandmere’s scandalous past has come back to haunt those living in the present. Hera, a vengeful voodoo priestess is determined to use the residual energy of Pandora’s Box to revive a sleeping voodoo god and declare war on the descendants of Marie Laveau, especially Joan. Suddenly, Greek myths are being re-enacted all over town, and Joan has her hands full trying to sort it all out. With the approach of Samedi’s Day—the voodoo day of resurrection—Joan must learn to accept her destiny in order to stop the approaching threat to her family and friends.
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Tags

horror, fantasy, magic, bayou, young adult, greek mythology, voodoo, spells

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Review by: Danielle on Feb. 14, 2013 :
loved this story I hope to read many more from this author. I was intrigued by the intertwining of the Greek and Voodoo pantheons I have never read a story that done that before.
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Review by: Artie Margrave on July 17, 2012 :
In all of my years of reading (and that's a lot of years), I've never read a book that blended myth and reality with such brilliance and originality as Bayou Myth.
Bayou Myth contains everything you're looking for in a book: drawing suspense, thriller, mind-disturbing horror, deep dark occult, pacey action, domestic humor, education, appropriate touch of romance, and then some; all in the right amount. The romance part really got to me as well as the other sections of the fusion.
Loesche is a cheerful giver of characteristics to the book's personas, letting the characters develop and pulling you right along.
Bayou Myth is an exquisite work of art. Yes! I said ART because only a work of art can be as beautifully designed as this book. What will keep me from reading Loesche's books, I pray our paths never cross. I can happily say I'm privileged to've read Bayou Myth. Who wants to touch me?!
Bayou Myth is totally deserving of my fifth star (I'm always usually stingy with it).
Keep up the good work.
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Review by: Tracy Mercer on June 30, 2012 :
This is a intriguing tale of a teenage girl in Louisiana who is learning to be herself the hard way. Unlike most teenagers, she is a voodoo princess which makes things a bit more complicated. It includes mystery, voodoo, romance, action. The story keeps you guessing and in the end- I just want more! I hope Ms. Loesch continues the story of this new type of heroine.
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