REVIEW: Voodoo Dues (Lian & Figg #1) by Stephany Simmons

Author: Stephany Simmons

Series: Lian and Figg

Pages: eBook

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Publisher: Self

Amazon: Voodoo Dues

Synopsis. (Goodreads)

From the beginning of Figg’s employment, there is something not quite right about the bar. There are few customers, a parade of neighborhood psychics and pentacle adorned visitors, all coming to hold court with her enigmatic boss. Figg is not sure what is going on, but she is determined to find out!

When the local voodoo queen shows up, and the next morning her grandson ends up dead outside the bar things get interesting.

Figg pesters Lian into telling her the truth about his former life, and is thrust into a world where the things that go bump in the night are real. There’s a murder to solve, zombies to lay to rest and a villain that neither of them saw coming.

Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars

Voodoo Dues was kindly provided to me by the author Stephany Simmons in exchange for my honest opinion and is the first book in the Lian and Figg series.

Voodoo Dues was a quick and enjoyable read about a mysterious bar owing Anthropologist Dr. Lian Cairn and his quirky waitress Eleanor Figg. Not a lot happens at the bar besides a few unusual characters popping in which has Figg wondering about her boss and his secretive ways.

Our main protagonist, Figg was an absolute classic! I was instantly drawn to her humor and wit and I could certainly relate to her shoe obsession, I loved her relationship with Lian who seemed her complete opposite, uptight and serious.

I liked the mystery of the whole story and the many paranormal beings and subject matters I have come to enjoy and love - Zombies, Necromancers, Werewolves, magic and voodoo. Lian and Figg worked well together with the powerful Voodoo priestess and her family to find out who was raising the dead in Dallas, it was a page turner which kept me captivated.

What I found lacking in Voodoo Dues is the amount of information we are given on each of the main characters, I really wanted to know more; especially about our main H/H but as it was a very short novella at just over 100 pages, I could understand why this information wasn’t provided.

Voodoo Dues is told in alternating POV’s which I always enjoy but personally found Figg’s chapters a lot more entertaining; the plot was interesting and written well. It is a fast-paced, fun read that I would definitely recommend.

Book 2, Vampire Blues has just been released. (Amazon)