catevari's review
3.0
Novelette in the Antryg Windrose series; Antryg and Joanna go to a haunted plantation in Louisiana (at the request of Joanna's mother). A lot of this resonated with me, having a hippie mother from the 60s who was not always the most present parent and, from the Benjamin January series, Hambly's love for and familiarity with Louisiana comes through vividly. However, this story didn't work as well for me as it might of because Antryg spends a great deal of it not really communicating with Joanna (or, by extension, the audience) until the very Sherlockian end. Still, having never seen Joanna's relationship with her parents, it's both illuminating to see those relationships and to see how Joanna has and is growing past them.
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