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L'Immortalite: Madame Lalaurie And The Voodoo Queen (2012)

by T.R. Heinan(Favorite Author)

3.91 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0615634710 (ISBN13: 9780615634715)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Nonius LLC

review 1: Horrendous yet UpliftingThis is a fictional story woven around the true history of Delphine Lalaurie whose desire for immortality came true, as her name will always be linked to the history of New Orleans. She beat and mistreated her slaves and sanctioned her husband's gruesome experiments in the name of science. Their antebellum mansion in the French Quarter has been preserved and is said to be one of the most haunted houses in New Orleans today, where the cries of the tortured and dismembered slaves can still be heard. The story revolves around Philippe Bertrand, the Saint Louis Cathedral's lay sacristan and the kindly Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau, and their combined efforts to save a slave child and end the torture to the other slaves in the mansion.The book is filled with... more hidden innuendo. Bertrand lives in a yellow brick house where today a yellow brick building actually exists, on Pirate's Alley, which becomes a metaphorical brick road for him. He gives the runaway slave girl Elise bread, and later pours her wine.Marie Laveau practices voodoo but is also a regular member of the Catholic Church, and in reality, New Orleans is probably the only place in the world where the two come together today.The story moves at a fast pace and is hard to put down.The characters from the book are to be used by the hit TV series American Horror Story.
review 2: An Excellent Tale of Horror, Mixed with Some Real History, Magic, and Esoteric Lore!The novel L'IMMORTALITE: MADAME LALAURIE AND THE VOODOO QUEEN by T. R. Heinan provides the reader a compelling and graphically descriptive tale with a clear window into both the history and legend of antebellum New Orleans—with its historical fabric consisting of horrid racial bigotry and cruelty along with its magical charms, where Catholicism and Voodoo can join hands, and where unspeakable horrors are committed by Delphine and Louis Lalaurie and yet the brave Voodoo Queen, Marie Laveau, risks her life to give comfort to a slave girl who has been tortured by the couple at Lalaurie Mansion. Having grown up in Mississippi, and living near New Orleans, I found this novel disturbing for its historical truth about torture and treatment of slaves but also charming in that I love the blend of cultures of antebellum New Orleans so beautifully described by T.R. Heinan. It is a great tale and I certainly give it 5 stars and recommend this novel to everyone who loves a little horror, mixed with some real history, magic and esoteric lore, and excellent descriptive writing. less

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