Review of Kekaju and the Hidden Swamp
4 stars
A boy’s thirteenth birthday ought to be a really special
day, especially for a boy who’s already had enough sorrow in his young life.
Not so for Zachary Boneoy, whose mother went out to the market one day and just
never returned. On his thirteenth birthday, as his father and he are headed out
to breakfast in New Orleans’ French Quarter, Zach stops to check out the home
of his Great-Aunt’s former husband—and his father is killed in a senseless
streetcar accident. Now Zach is alone and wants to be on his own—but his wacky
Great Aunt shows up and takes him to her home, an isolated run-down house on
the edge of a long-abandoned plantation, next to a swamp. It isn’t too long
before Zach discovers talking animals, good vs. evil in the swamp, and some of
the secrets hidden at the old plantation home.
A multi-threaded contemporary fantasy, and what promises to
be only the first in a series, “Kekaju and the Hidden Swamp” juggles a wild
cast of characters, including many talking animals and wildlife—even some of
the trees talk in this story! And oh, yes, this is Southern Louisiana, so don’t
forget the voodoo and the zombies.
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