Warning. This book maintains a dark theme. Contains detailed scenes of gore, violence, and is sexual in nature. Intended for audiences 18 and up. Reader discretion is highly advised.Grimm Valot was a Cajun boy with a heavy bayou accent when I first met him. He spent most of his youth fishing the Mississippi River from the levee in Old Algiers, but I don’t ever remember seeing him in the market … him in the market selling anything with his family. My daddy always tried to get me to stay away from him, but he was a damn good friend and I think some of my happiest moments were hiding behind the trees, sitting on the grass, and watching him throw his line in.
I think part of the reason my daddy didn’t want me near Grimm was because his family lived in the Lower Ninth Ward and we lived in the French Quarter. He said that I was too “upper class” to be seen with anyone from the Wards, which I didn’t agree with. I never did define people on what they had or where they lived, but he did because he worked so hard for everything we had.
We left Louisiana the day before Hurricane Katrina swept through and destroyed the Wards, leaving me wondering if he and his family had made it out safely. That almost eleven years ago and I found myself back in New Orleans for a visit with my parents in their fancy French Quarter home. In two days it would be Mardi Gras and the perfect time for me to slip away and see if I could find out whatever happened to him; if he was still alive or if he lost his life like so many others.
I’ll admit that I’m scared. Dark things happen in the deepest corners of New Orleans and there are whispers of magic, sex, and death. Ritualistic killings to appease spirts and gain power. I never believed in any of that and I knew I would have to swallow my fear to find him. I felt in my bones that he was still alive and I knew that I would have to be strong to find him. I would have to hold onto the hope that maybe, just maybe, Grimm was looking for me too.
It was all I could do for now.
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Emily grew up in New Orleans, Her best friend is Grimm. Emily grew up in the rich part of town, where as Grimm lives in the 9th ward and if you know nothing of New Orleans, The 9th ward is the poorest part of town. Emily loves her best friend, and wants him to come over and play in her house and the gardens in her yard. Her parents don’t want her to have anything to do with him. In fact Emily invites him over, but her dad chases him away. Years pass. Then Hurricane Katrina hits. The 9th ward is completely flooded and many don’t make it out. Emily finds her way back, and the 1st thing she wants is to see if Grimm is ok. Will she find him? Is he the same guy she remembers as a kid? lord have mercy this was a great book.
Yolanda does it again with this thriller.
Rich girl Emmie and her childhood friend Grimm, the boy from the bad side of town are the main characters in this tale. Emmie returns to New Orleans as an adult to try and find Grimm, not knowing whether or not he survived Hurricane Katrina years before.
Grimm has become the neighbourhood Boogey Man on his quest for finding Saints. Emmie has really bad timing arriving back in town and walks into something out of her worse nightmare.
This book was well written and my heart was racing as I tried to hurry to see how it ended. Was it a HEA or a WTF, if you’ve read Yolanda’s books before you’ll know. Prepare yourselves for quite a ride.
Oh what an adventure it must be to live in Yolandas head !!
All the psychopaths, murderers, garden planters, artists and now occult practitioners living there!!
The book starts with a pure and untainted Emily Thibideaux looking for her childhood friend ,Grimm Valot, in New Orleans . After Hurricane Katrina, shes trying to wade through the Slum town of Lower Ninth Ward. Its a screaming world away from posh French Quarter. Her parents tried to keep her away from the scum poor boy. Fate intervenes and death lures her in , casting a voodoo spell and she is standing in front of his rundown shack, trying to save 5 girls but ends up becoming a saint !!
The stories she writes are very original and she always dares to go deep into the dark territory .
But…and its a BIG BUT. She always stops short !!
So many questions are left unanswered
What was Grimm trying to achieve after collecting his stipulated 100 saints ?
Does he kill those 4 girls and make them saints?
Does he kill Emily as #101 ?
How did he get drawn into it?
Is Marie as powerful as she seems and how ?
Was it all worth it ?
Does it change him?
Does he regret Emily?
Shes writing a prequel but i wouldve loved an epilogue instead. I wish more occult practices were touched upon, esp with Marie’s Voodoo Cove supplementing it .
I give 3 stars because it left me frustrated and NOT because it was poorly written
Yolanda always seems to have something up her sleeve, and you never know what to expect when you start one of her stories.
Here we have a woman, looking for the boy she fell in love with.
The boy, who grew into a man. A dangerous man. A Bad Man.
Emmie has returned to NOLA to try to reconnect with her parents, and find the boy she lost contact with.
Grimm has followed his dark side, and has almost completed his journey to find his one hundred saints.
Yolanda always brings the grim (no pun) and fills her stories with a whole lot of “What the hell was that?!”
Hoping for a sequel for this one!