Title: The Dark Bokor
Author: Dianne Hartsock
Genre: Zombies/Horror
Length: Novella (14,500 words)
Publisher: Breathless Press (October 18 2013)
Heat Level: Explicit
Hearts Rating: ♥♥♥♥ 4 Hearts
Reviewer: Cat
Blurb:When it comes to the dark weavings of hoodoo magic, only a few can survive.
It’s started. Bodies have been found in the French Quarter, torn limb from limb. The undead have been seen walking. For Detective Matthew Rieves, this is the worst news he can imagine. Having spent his entire life in Orleans Parish, Matt’s no stranger to the bizarre. Though, despite the growing evidence, he still has a hard time believing in the occult. But when two hoodoo bokors vie for supremacy, it’s the innocent civilians that pay the price.
For Jesse Dalembert, he’d left New Orleans to sever his ties with hoodoo. But when a friend is brutally murdered by the bokor’s zombies, he returns, falling at once into danger and into Detective Rieves’s bed. With their lives on the line, their simmering attraction flares into a passion they can no longer deny.
Working against time, can the lovers find a way to stop the hoodoo war, or will they fall victim to the dark magic, maybe becoming zombies themselves?
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Review: The Dark Bokor is a unique take on Zombies. I found the story very original and interesting.
Jesse has tried to sever his ties with the Hoodoo community but when his friend and ex-lover is found murdered he finds himself back in action and back working with detective Matt Rieves the man who has been starring in his fantasies far too long.
This story has a lot of mystery, lots of magic or hoodoo and lots of hot mansex. Oh did I mention Zombies?
I liked the unique take on the Zombies, the New Orleans hoodoo and dark magic setting, and how the backstory and the romance and the Zombies are all wove together smoothly so that nothing was overwhelming. I also liked that it wasn’t gory.
I recommend this to anyone that likes a good mystery, hot mansex and Zombies.