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Voodoo Child – by William Burke – ISBN 1-3432773081 ISBN 978-2-9914480-6-7 Published by William Burke (June 17, 2016). ($ 2.99 USD SRP) The reviewer received the author’s book as an e-book.

Around the world and then landing on a small Caribbean island, this story traverses the world and more.

The action begins on the small island of Isle De Fantomas. It moves to the deserts of the Middle East and then comes back. The plot is an interesting mix of horror, mystery, and voodoo. The most intriguing part of this for this critic is the author’s respect for a small religion, voodoo, in this case.

Yes, there are demons, devils, voodoo priestesses, and hordes of the undead. They fill the pages and bring out a mixture of horror and detailed practice of a little-known religion. There are wickedly charming soldiers, military and mercenary troops and scientists and others not so charming.

The action on this small island centers on an ancient and forbidden voodoo ritual from a dark book recently translated by the bokor or voodoo priest of General Manual Ortiz. The General has declared himself by various titles Prime Minister for life of the island, supreme dictator, etc. He owns this book for having killed the previous voodoo priestess. With the uncanny ability of the Bokor to understand the languages ​​in which the book is written. Possessor of an ancient voodoo ritual and with his bokor, he performs ceremonies that most would leave without experience.

The general, his bokor, and his fiancée, Lavonia Dawes, find themselves in a dark dungeon performing a ritual that is darker than anything that has been done for many centuries. While this is happening, his nephew, Lieutenant Miguel Ortiz, is hunting and attempting to kill Sarafina, the current island’s voodoo priestess. One thing leads to another, and through a staggering amount of mistakes, errors, and simple assumptions, the book’s theme bursts into the reader’s mind, sparking the zombie uprising.

Baron Kriminel, the cigar-smoking voodoo spirit of death, is summoned and then has to face his longtime lover, Gira, the spirit of love and fertility. It is a combination made in the surroundings of voodoo spirits and thus everything gets even darker.

Talos Corporation, a multinational mega corporation, investigates many devious and insidious ideas, but mainly works on something very similar to voodoo zombies. Maggie Child, co-pilot of a Blackhawk in the Iraqi desert is truly the main character in this story and, although she was not introduced until Chapter 8, she is the main character of the book. She becomes one of the experiments Talos is working on to create super soldiers. James Gallo appears to replace his friend and predecessor. Steven Caine. Maggie escapes with Glen Logan, her accidental partner from the Talos facility where the dark experiments take place. Her uncle, Rip Flowers, enters the scene and the fun begins.

All these characters end up on the island and are involved in the zombie apocalypse that is taking over the island. This is where the true horror of the story comes in.

Any reader will be captivated by this rather lengthy book. It holds the reader’s interest until the last words of this book, the first part of Burke’s Zombie Uprising series. This critic and probably all readers will be looking forward to the next and other books in the series.

5 stars.