Return to Hoodoo (Boudin, Bourbon, and Barbecue, Book 1) by Reggi Dupree – Review by Shea Gilkerson 4/4/23

Return to Hoodoo: A Paranormal Women's Fiction Novel (Boudin, Barbecue, and Hoodoo Book 1)Return to Hoodoo: A Paranormal Women’s Fiction Novel by Reggi Dupree
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I enjoyed this book so much that I don’t know where to start. My favorite aspect is the main character -Gwen speaks to my soul – aging, but a total badass. Beautiful and strong. Takes no BS from anyone. Brassy and sassy and so engaging. So powerful and tough but a little bit scared under the surface. She is raw, genuine, and realizes she might not have seen everything the same in her 20s as she does when she returns for a summons to receive an inheritance from her hometown in Hoodoo, Texas. Hoodoo is about what it sounds like – paranormal. Different. Comprised of shifters, witches, vampires and more – and most of them believe she killed her best friend when she was 18.

While she grew up there and her family lives there, Gwen hasn’t called Hoodoo home in a long time. She bet on them believing in her and turned out to be wrong, so she hadn’t come back. When she is summoned for an inheritance with lots of strings attached, she does as she’s told and shows up – but she is hoping to be in town overnight, have the inheritance meeting in the morning and head out of town after. As per usual in her life, and in Hoodoo – things get mixed up for Gwen.

Th ere aren’t many people on her side in Hoodoo and she knows it, but after witnessing a murder she knows she can’t leave yet. Gwen deals with the entirety of the book and her life with humor, snark, a level of badassness that I hope to achieve some day – and honesty and raw feelings. I really felt like I was connected to her and it was so wonderfully written. Creative but realistic with the stories she has lived, I will be a Reggi Dupree reader for life!

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