The Gates of Evangeline

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First of all, if you are from south Louisiana, do not listen to the audio. The “Cajun” accents sound more like someone from Mississippi or northern Louisiana. A Cajun accent does not sound like a southern accent. Second, Cajun families did not own plantations. They lived in the swamps and bayous.

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Slajaunie Third, please get your terminology correct. If there is a boat in the swamp, it would not be a rowboat. It would be a bateau. This is a flat bottomed boat designed for use in the shallows of the swamps. 6y

Slajaunie I could not finish this book. It was atrocious. The high and mighty Charlie from the east coast was very derisive of the culture of the culture of the south.

Authors, if you are going to write about an area, please do your research. This book was intolerable for someone from south Louisiana who is part of the Cajun culture. 6y

Crazeedi It would be awful to read a book about something you are intimately familiar be done so wrong 6y

SaturnDoo 😣 I read a book last year and the author kept referring to Memphis being in East TN...ummmm since when? Been here in TN all my life, pretty much, and Memphis moving from SW TN was news to me 😂 6y

Zelma Regional accents in audiobooks are rarely done well, but Cajun are always the worst, ugh! 6y

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Slajaunie

The Gates of Evangeline | Hester Young

Listening to this as I get ready for bed.

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razmanda

The Gates of Evangeline | Hester Young

so-so

Lord, this woman is a terrible detective and for a clairvoyant, she is dense as hell. That‘s not to say I didn‘t enjoy the trip to the bayou and the mystery as it unfolded but I didn‘t want to shake her more than a few times. I‘ll also admit to getting a little misty-eyed here or there. I don‘t know that I‘ll continue the series or not. But at least I have my “Y” author!

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Jerdencon

The Gates of Evangeline | Hester Young

Just finished the Invisible Library which I liked even though it's not my usual genre... packaged up my book for #lmpbc to mail out this week, and going to start Gates Of Evangeline for Louisiana in the #unitedstatesofbooks and finally this post should put me over the 10,000 mark! 😀❤️📚#lovelitsy

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lauralovesbooks1

The Gates of Evangeline | Hester Young

so-so

Charlotte, a NY journalist that recently lost her young son takes a job in Louisiana to write a book about a 2 year old that went missing 30 years ago. Entertaining story, but the characters were a bit stereotypical and I saw most of the ending coming. I did enjoy the plantation setting in Louisiana, though and would give this debut author another try.

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Linds

The Gates of Evangeline | Hester Young

so-so

So much was happening in this book: visions, mystery, dialect, romance, beignets. There were also deeper threads of loss, abandonment, homophobia, and betrayal. That being said I'm a sucker for books set in Louisiana with that southern gothic feel and I liked more in this one than I disliked. The writing could have been about 100 pages tighter. If you don't mind a narrator who's emotional and jumps to some pretty wild conclusions you'll enjoy this

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amrsprout

The Gates of Evangeline | Hester Young

pick

Great mystery.

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AmyStewart

The Gates of Evangeline | Hester Young

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QueenAnne Am now! 😄📚 9y

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