A review by veronica87
Black Magic Woman by Justin Gustainis

3.0

I wouldn’t necessarily classify this book as an urban fantasy. It reads more like a supernatural thriller. I’m also not sure why it is billed as the Morris and Chastain investigations because we spend as much time with the other characters, including the villains, as we do with the supposedly central pair. The story is told in omniscient third person so we get the full picture of what is going on with all the players at any given time. Quincy Morris is something of a paranormal investigator who occasionally partners up with Libby Chastain, a white witch. What starts out as a seemingly simple case of ridding a home of a bad spirit quickly escalates into something far more sinister. The bad guys are truly bad and the crimes they commit are pretty horrendous. The victims are children so, fair warning. The various plot threads and multiple characters at first seem very disconnected but it all starts to come together around the half-way mark. Once I let go of my expectations that this was going to be a typical urban fantasy and that this was going to be just Morris’ and Chastain’s story, I was able to enjoy it a lot more…as the supernatural thriller it really is.