The Curse of the Quarter
Amy Briggs & Heidi McLaughlin
Occult Suspense
A cursed man. A haunted city. A love that defies lifetimes.
When fallen angel Bastien Durand walks the rain-soaked streets of New Orleans, he carries more than just the weight of his past—he carries the memory of a love that has haunted him for over a century. Working as a supernatural investigator in the French Quarter, he’s learned to live with ghosts, both literal and otherwise.
But when ancient magic begins stirring in the shadows and familiar melodies drift through the night air, Bastien realizes his greatest torment may also be his salvation. A brilliant librarian with eyes he’s never forgotten holds the key to secrets that span lifetimes, though she has no memory of the souls she’s carried before.
As supernatural factions clash and the veil between worlds grows thin, Bastien must navigate treacherous magic, old enemies, and the devastating possibility that some curses are stronger than death itself. In a city where the past never truly dies, he’ll discover that love—and loss—can echo across centuries.
But awakening the truth may cost him everything he’s fought to protect.
A moody, slow-burn paranormal mystery set in a New Orleans where demons, witches, and fae itself walk unseen among the living.
Uncaged Review: This book is surprising in many ways. First of all, the intricate detail and the amount of complexity that was woven throughout. I wonder about the author’s thought processes and honestly think they wrote an almost “too complex of a story,” to the point that it slowed it down in spots. Bastien is a fallen angel who has watched over the different incarnations of the love he lost, who now presents herself in Delphine, as her ancestor, Charlotte started a ritual to begin to transcend through generations, to find out if love would live through the different incarnations and always have her find her love in Bastien. And that’s the simple explanation, when the ancient magic goes awry, Bastien will need to work with Delphine and the rest of the supernatural community to fix it.
I normally enjoy the fallen angel trope, and I like that the authors woven in some real New Orleans history in with the story to make it more believable and the visuals that the story invokes in the reader’s mind makes it easy to picture the settings as we read along. There really isn’t much romance in this, it’s more of a suspense with a lot of different supernatural beings, but it still kept my attention and I look forward to the next book in the series.
Reviewed by Cyrene
4 Stars
