She made for a great villain that we get to know early on, ruthless and cunning, yet oddly caring for what she deems to be hers.Ī lot of appreciable time is spent establishing the carnival itself, bringing Liza into the fold, introducing who she is going to have meaningful relationships with, and what her place in this little community is going to be. There was still plenty to be revealed as the book went on, but the nature of the demon Ahiku, for instance, her control of the carnival and general goals, were made fairly clear to the reader in the early chapters. When I did finally start reading it, the story was a surprisingly slow burn, especially during the early phases, while also showing a lot of its hand. A nearly-all-black traveling carnival navigating 1930s America and secretly controlled by a soul-hungry African demon was a strong enough premise that it hooked me all on its own.
I’d been particularly looking forward to checking this book out since I received my ARC copy. Only Liza has a chance at stopping her, if she can come to understand the true nature of her burgeoning powers. Lurking behind the games, attractions, and sweet treats is a demonic being that feeds on innocent lives and imbues the carnival with the presence of spirits from beyond the veil. Bacchanal Carnival as a new crowd-drawing oddity.Īmong the other carnies and strange folk, Liza finds a place to call home, but Bacchanal is not entirely as it seems. Thanks to a latent, otherworldly power that allows her to communicate with animals, she is noticed by a talent prospector and hired by the G. Set during the Great Depression in the Southern United States, the story follows Eliza Meeks, a young black woman barely getting by in Baton Rouge, abandoned by her family many years previously. Henry is the author’s newly published, debut novel.
Rolling across a consuming dust bowl landscape, Eliza may have found her destiny.Bacchanal by Veronica G. Only then can Eliza save her friends, find her family, and fight the sway of a primordial demon preying upon the human world. And she’s met her match in Eliza, who’s only beginning to understand the purpose of her own burgeoning powers. But the Bacchanal is no ordinary carnival. And the Bacchanal Carnival is Eliza’s ticket out of the swamp trap of Baton Rouge.Īmong fortune-tellers, carnies, barkers, and folks even stranger than herself, Eliza finds a new home. To a talent prospector, she’s a crowd-drawing oddity. It’s a gift for communicating with animals.
Her time has come.Ībandoned by her family, alone on the wrong side of the color line with little to call her own, Eliza Meeks is coming to terms with what she does have. But the carnival’s newest act, a peculiar young woman with latent magical powers, may hold the key to defeating it. Evil lives in a traveling carnival roaming the Depression-era South.
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