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I am from a small town in southeast Texas, about half an hour from the Texas/Louisiana border. I have known Cajun people and listening to them speak all of my life. While the characters are not yet fully developed in this story, the author did well with the wording of the dialogue of the characters. She didn't go crazy with the dialect, though she could have, but she was still able to make me hear those voices and their cadence and accent in my head as I read the words. The bayou, the gators, the people were all familiar to me. The storyline is intriguing and kept me hooked, so much so that I went on to read books two and three immediately. This book is a bit short and rather abrupt in its ending, but reading the other two sequentially and immediately following this and each other made it easy to overlook. I'm a bit sad to leave the swamp and Fanchon and the Chaberts.


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To Murder a Saint Saints Volume 1 Nicole Loughan 9781484978177 Books Reviews

I feel like all the excellent reviews of this book led to a huge let down. The architecture of a decent story is here, but the writing seems lacking, the characters undeveloped and the mystery/suspense pretty much non-existent. I feel like another re-write or two could have made it a lot better. I was intrigued at the description and for the first part of the book, but it just never seemed to develop well in any direction. Even Fanchon's personality is a little wobbly at certain points. This might get better in future books as the author hones her craft, but I don't think I will take the time to see.
I picked up "To Murder A Saint" as a `freebie' from one of my e-mails of "free and discount books" that I receive on a daily basis. I always appreciate these, as it often leads me to a new author I may not have otherwise discovered. Sometimes I am happy I found the particular book. Sometimes? Not so much.

In this case, what caught my eye was the cover. It is beautiful, as you can see. Well, that and the fact that the book was set in Louisiana, a total weakness for me. I can say that the potential is definitely there, hopefully to be fulfilled later. The author, Nicole Loughan, is a recognized journalist and syndicated humour columnist, which offers potential as a writer of fiction. In this first installment of her series, Nicole is writing about my home area, the bayous of southern Louisiana. She does a fairly good job of setting up the novel. My three-star review is based on several issues I had.

Nicole's writing tries very hard to speak the language of the Bayou. However, with no experience with the area (she went to school in Michigan and lives in Philadelphia) her attempts at Cajun fall flat. She starts `Cajun-Speak' but then falls back into `journalism-speak' within two sentences. Cajun is an extremely unique language, a mixture of French, English, a bit of African and bits of Native American tribal languages (Choctaw, Quapaw, Caddo, etc.). It is also difficult for a northerner to comprehend the cadence and flow of southern speech patterns. Her precise use of language as a journalist makes it difficult, without doubt, to fall into the patois of the south, where `can not' comes out `kaint' and bonjour is much more common than hello, "How's it going?" is
Comment ça va?" and the best response to that is "Ça va. Et vous-autres?" i.e., "It's going OK. And ya'll?" Or, in my case, "Ca va. Ah dah'tse?" i.e., "It's good. How are you?" (A mix of Cajun with a soupcon of Quapaw.)

Overall, this reads as a first attempt at a novel, somewhat stilted and rough, but with good bones. I have put the next book on my to-read list to see if the roughness inherent in the first novel smoothes out. I would have appreciated more development of the storyline. I felt it was somewhat choppy and not filled out well enough for my tastes. Again, that `journalist' feeling - "Just the facts!" that was sort of off-putting for me, but others seemed to like in their reviews. In my opinion, if I am going to read a novel, I wish to fall into the book and be able to see it in my mind - the characters, the background, the world around the players. Humans are defined by their surroundings, and limiting those surroundings limits the movie that is developed in my mind. If I did not have such a strong connection with bayou country, it would have been very hard for me to feel any connection with the story or its characters.I will check out the second in the series when I get a moment and make a decision from there whether to leave the author on my `TBR' list. I hope I can come back with a great review on that one!
I really was pleasantly surprised by the author's style and descriptions of New Orleans & her Cajun population. The heroine is believable, there are a host of unique characters, and you don't know from one moment to the next what's going to happen. I found myself 3/4 of the way through and couldn't believe I'd read that much. The book flowed easily and came to a satisfactory conclusion - which, if you read the other two in the series, is neatly all tied up at the end of book three. Fun, easy to read, and smooth like New Orleans jazz.
Two best friends, Josephine and Fanchon, move from Louisiana Cajun country to NYC. At Josephine's urging Fanchon goes out on a date with a guy from an internet dating website. Upon her return home, she discovers the dismembered body of Josephine.

The detective assigned to investigate accompanies Fanchon as she brings her friend's body home to Louisiana and standard chuckles ensue as he meets all the stereotyped natives

Returning to NYC, Fanchon stumbles upon the real murderer and Banyon charges in to assist her. It could be this book hit me at the right time but I laughed out loud several times while reading and listening to it.

I read this through Whispersync and thoroughly enjoyed the narrator and her voices. I bought the book and received the audible book in exchange for an honest review
Less than 100 pages, this is a quick read, and a very fast moving story. A young woman is found dead in what appears to be an alligator attack in a Harlem apartment. The story takes you from New York to Louisiana and back again. Is voodoo at work? Maybe.
I love anything about New Orleans, so I was immediately hooked by the story. But I didn't realize this was only a short story when I purchased it...so I was a bit surprised when I sat down and read it in one sitting! And, that turned out to be both a positive and a negative. Positive, because I was able to get to the end of the story quickly. Negative-- well not so negative-- but that's why I say there is "lots of potential" for this book because with a little more time and writing this author could turn this into a great novel. There is plenty of room to develop characters and back stories and insert some plot twists. This book is literally just a seedling waiting to grow. Ill read book two to find out what happens next with Franchon.
I am from a small town in southeast Texas, about half an hour from the Texas/Louisiana border. I have known Cajun people and listening to them speak all of my life. While the characters are not yet fully developed in this story, the author did well with the wording of the dialogue of the characters. She didn't go crazy with the dialect, though she could have, but she was still able to make me hear those voices and their cadence and accent in my head as I read the words. The bayou, the gators, the people were all familiar to me. The storyline is intriguing and kept me hooked, so much so that I went on to read books two and three immediately. This book is a bit short and rather abrupt in its ending, but reading the other two sequentially and immediately following this and each other made it easy to overlook. I'm a bit sad to leave the swamp and Fanchon and the Chaberts.