Bless Your Heart
Ratings7
Average rating3.9
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Ratings7
Average rating3.9
A crackling mystery-horror novel with big-hearted characters and Southern charm with a bite, Bless Your Heart is a gasp-worthy delight from start to finish.
It’s 1999 in Southeast Texas and the Evans women, owners of the only funeral parlor in town, are keeping steady with… normal business. The dead die, you bury them. End of story. That’s how Ducey Evans has done it for the last eighty years, and her progeny―Lenore the experimenter and Grace, Lenore’s soft-hearted daughter, have run Evans Funeral Parlor for the last fifteen years without drama. Ever since That Godawful Mess that left two bodies in the ground and Grace raising her infant daughter Luna, alone.
But when town gossip Mina Jean Murphy’s body is brought in for a regular burial and she rises from the dead instead, it’s clear that the Strigoi―the original vampire―are back. And the Evans women are the ones who need to fight back to protect their town.
As more folks in town turn up dead and Deputy Roger Taylor begins asking way too many questions, Ducey, Lenore, Grace, and now Luna, must take up their blades and figure out who is behind the Strigoi’s return. As the saying goes, what rises up, must go back down. But as unspoken secrets and revelations spill from the past into the present, the Evans family must face that sometimes, the dead aren’t the only things you want to keep buried.
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1 primary bookBless Your Heart is a 1-book series first released in 2024 with contributions by Lindy Ryan. The next book is scheduled for release on 4/15/2025.
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True Blood meets The Walking Dead meets Six Feet Under meets Supernatural- that's really the best way I can describe this incredibly original and unique book. I was not expecting to like it as much as I did, aside from the high level of splatterpunk gore that I am not a huge fan of. Thankfully, that mainly came towards the end of the book, and it was essential for the plot so I will give it a pass.
This book was fun, ridiculous, unique, and overall a delight!
Thank you, NetGalley!
I just finished Bless your Heart by Lindy Ryan and here are my thoughts.
The Evan's women have a job to do. They own the funeral parlor and they bury the dead and for 15 years the dead have stayed dead but something has changed. The dead are again, coming back to life and the only people who even know and can do anything about it, are the town's outliers, modern day southern Strigoi hunters.
As more and more of the town starts turning up dead and then undead, the Town Deputy has more questions than answers and as the Evan's women gear up to fight, they know that it might be time to tell the secret that has plagued their hearts for the last 15 years.
I have a habit of not reading synopsis for books and I saw this one on instagram and was like, heck yeah looks good..... I requested it on netgalley and boom!! Was excited to start. I had no idea it was a paranormal mystery, I thought it was a romance so when I started reading I realized I had made the best mistake of my life! Even the cover didn't give me a hint... The lady literally has fangs haha! I was drawn right in. It was a lighter horror kind of book and the Evan's women family dynamic had me chuckling! Ducey was so funny. Each Evan's got their own POV and it was a little much I understood why the author went this way.
It was a dark humor with some horror splashed in while the mystery of who the original vampire is in town. It was highly entertaining. I enjoyed the plot a lot, I am really glad it is book 1 of a series. The character development was well done and each person added value to the story. Big fan of southern books too. The tone was epic with a decent pace which is always a bonus when you are reading a mystery book.
I'm hoping now that we have been introduced to the main characters, that we will get less POVs in the next book because I really would like a more tidy storyline in the next one. If you are looking for a paranormal mystery that will make you giggle, pick this one up.
4 stars Thank you @netgalley and @minotaurbooks for my gifted copy
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What an absolutely charming and fun read! Absolutely perfect for Spooktober, especially for people who don't like gory but want a little bit of spooky.
Bless Your Heart is well-written and the characters are great too. I love when multiple POVs are done as seamlessly as this is. It makes for an easy read, one that I finished in two days.
I didn't realize this would be a series when I received this one, and I am excited for it. Give me more of the Evans women! Thank you Minotaur Books for the review copy. All opinions expressed are my own.
this was so fun and i loved the matriarchal family dynamics in this story!
