Book Review: Bacchanal by Veronica G. Henry

Thank you 47North for my review copy.

My thoughts:

I’ve always been a fan of carnivals and loved the tv show ‘Carnivale’ so it was a no brainer that I wanted to read about an all Black traveling carnival. We are introduced to Eliza, who is a young girl that has a gift when it comes to animals. She is the town outcast until they need her help with the animals. 

I did feel the story was slow at times and there was too much day to day with Eliza and her inner dialogue began to become repetitive. The pacing in this story was too off balanced for me. Too much stop and go. I felt the story really didn’t pick until the last ten chapters of the book and that the ending was a little rushed. This is a debut novel and all authors have to start somewhere and I wouldn’t be against reading another novel by this author.

Quick Take:

Evil lives in a traveling carnival roaming the Depression-era South. But the carnival’s newest act, a peculiar young woman with latent magical powers, may hold the key to defeating it. Her time has come.