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Charmed #5
Voodoo Moon
If her soul is bound by an evil spell,
Call back her spirit with a ringing bell.
Salt in her left hand, gold in her right
Will cast out the dark and restore her soul's light.
The Halliwells are on vacation. It's time to party in New Orleans.
But on Prue, Piper and Phoebe's first night in the Big Easy, Phoebe has a dream filled with images of strange, violent rituals under a full moon.
Soon after, a new friend of Prue's disappears—on the night of the full moon! When the Charmed Ones try to find her, they are drawn into a dark world of voodoo sorcery… a powerful magic like nothing the sisters have ever seen.
Voodoo Moon is the fifth of the Charmed novels.
This novel is set between Season 1 Episode 22 Deja Vu All Over Again and Season 2 Episode 1 Witch Trial.
Phoebe says it is June. The episode 'Witch Trial' clearly takes place during the Autumnal Equinox. But it mentions 21st century, putting it after 7/2 'They're Everywhere'.
Call back her spirit with a ringing bell.
Salt in her left hand, gold in her right
Will cast out the dark and restore her soul's light.
The Halliwells are on vacation. It's time to party in New Orleans.
But on Prue, Piper and Phoebe's first night in the Big Easy, Phoebe has a dream filled with images of strange, violent rituals under a full moon.
Soon after, a new friend of Prue's disappears—on the night of the full moon! When the Charmed Ones try to find her, they are drawn into a dark world of voodoo sorcery… a powerful magic like nothing the sisters have ever seen.
Voodoo Moon is the fifth of the Charmed novels.
This novel is set between Season 1 Episode 22 Deja Vu All Over Again and Season 2 Episode 1 Witch Trial.
Phoebe says it is June. The episode 'Witch Trial' clearly takes place during the Autumnal Equinox. But it mentions 21st century, putting it after 7/2 'They're Everywhere'.
192 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 2000
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Wendy Corsi Staub
82 books1,901 followersNew York Times bestseller Wendy Corsi Staub is the award-winning author of more than ninety novels, best known for the single title psychological suspense novels she writes under her own name. Those books and the women’s fiction written under the pseudonym Wendy Markham have also appeared on the USA Today, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Bookscan bestseller lists.
Her current standalone suspense novel, THE OTHER FAMILY, is about a picture-perfect family that that moves into a picture-perfect house. But not everything is as it seems, and the page-turner concludes “with a wallop of a twist,” according to #1 New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben.
Her critically acclaimed Lily Dale traditional mystery series centers around a widowed single mom—and skeptic—who moves to a town populated by spiritualists who talk to the dead. Titles include NINE LIVES; SOMETHING BURIED, SOMETHING BLUE; DEAD OF WINTER; and PROSE AND CONS, with a fifth book under contract.
Wendy has written five suspense trilogies for HarperCollins/William Morrow. The most recent, The Foundlings (LITTLE GIRL LOST, DEAD SILENCE, and THE BUTCHER’S DAUGHTER), spans fifty years in the life of a woman left as a newborn in a Harlem church, now an investigative genealogist helping others uncover their biological roots while still searching for her own.
Written as Wendy Markham, Wendy’s novel HELLO, IT’S ME was a recent Hallmark television movie starring Kellie Martin. Her short story “Cat Got Your Tongue” appeared in R.L. Stine’s MWA middle grade anthology SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN and her short story “The Elephant in the Room” is included in the Anthony Award-nominated inaugural anthology SHATTERING GLASS.
A three-time finalist for the Simon and Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award, she’s won an RWA Rita Award, an RT Award for Career Achievement in Suspense, the 2007 RWA-NYC Golden Apple Award for Lifetime Achievement, and five WLA Washington Irving Prizes for Fiction.
She previously published a dozen adult suspense novels with Kensington Books and the critically-acclaimed young adult paranormal series “Lily Dale” (Walker/Bloomsbury). Earlier in her career, she published a broad range of genres under her own name and pseudonyms, and was a co-author/ghostwriter for several celebrities.
Raised in Dunkirk, NY, Wendy graduated from SUNY Fredonia and launched a publishing career in New York City. She was Associate Editor at Silhouette Books before selling her first novel in 1992. Married with two sons, she lives in the NYC suburbs. An active supporter of the American Cancer Society, she was a featured speaker at Northern Westchester’s 2015 Relay for Life and 2012 National Spokesperson for the Sandy Rollman Ovarian Cancer Foundation. She has fostered for various animal rescue organizations.
Her current standalone suspense novel, THE OTHER FAMILY, is about a picture-perfect family that that moves into a picture-perfect house. But not everything is as it seems, and the page-turner concludes “with a wallop of a twist,” according to #1 New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben.
Her critically acclaimed Lily Dale traditional mystery series centers around a widowed single mom—and skeptic—who moves to a town populated by spiritualists who talk to the dead. Titles include NINE LIVES; SOMETHING BURIED, SOMETHING BLUE; DEAD OF WINTER; and PROSE AND CONS, with a fifth book under contract.
Wendy has written five suspense trilogies for HarperCollins/William Morrow. The most recent, The Foundlings (LITTLE GIRL LOST, DEAD SILENCE, and THE BUTCHER’S DAUGHTER), spans fifty years in the life of a woman left as a newborn in a Harlem church, now an investigative genealogist helping others uncover their biological roots while still searching for her own.
Written as Wendy Markham, Wendy’s novel HELLO, IT’S ME was a recent Hallmark television movie starring Kellie Martin. Her short story “Cat Got Your Tongue” appeared in R.L. Stine’s MWA middle grade anthology SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN and her short story “The Elephant in the Room” is included in the Anthony Award-nominated inaugural anthology SHATTERING GLASS.
A three-time finalist for the Simon and Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award, she’s won an RWA Rita Award, an RT Award for Career Achievement in Suspense, the 2007 RWA-NYC Golden Apple Award for Lifetime Achievement, and five WLA Washington Irving Prizes for Fiction.
She previously published a dozen adult suspense novels with Kensington Books and the critically-acclaimed young adult paranormal series “Lily Dale” (Walker/Bloomsbury). Earlier in her career, she published a broad range of genres under her own name and pseudonyms, and was a co-author/ghostwriter for several celebrities.
Raised in Dunkirk, NY, Wendy graduated from SUNY Fredonia and launched a publishing career in New York City. She was Associate Editor at Silhouette Books before selling her first novel in 1992. Married with two sons, she lives in the NYC suburbs. An active supporter of the American Cancer Society, she was a featured speaker at Northern Westchester’s 2015 Relay for Life and 2012 National Spokesperson for the Sandy Rollman Ovarian Cancer Foundation. She has fostered for various animal rescue organizations.
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February 4, 2013
The long-running TV series Charmed was (and is --it's still in syndication, and she has all or most seasons on DVD) among my wife's top favorite TV shows, and I'm a fan myself (though not an uncritical one). I was looking for a short, quick-paced read that could entertain while filling in time as I waited to start a common read, and that's exactly what this book delivered. At 181 pages, many readers could consume it in one or two long sittings, and the brisk style invites that.
The primary audience for this and similar spin-off books is people who already like the series. But if you're not familiar with the latter, it could also serve as a good introduction. Staub imparts basic, barebones information about the premise early on in a quick, naturally-fitted sentence or two. The characterizations of the Charmed Ones are true to the series, and the sisterly camaraderie and wry humor that flavors the latter is here too. (This particular adventure spins off the earlier seasons, when the oldest sister Prue is still alive.) But for variety, this tale takes them away from their hometown of San Francisco to a well-realized southern Louisiana setting. (In the series, all of the sisters were known to cuss a bit at times, and none of them were 100% celibate before marriage; but there's no bad language or sex at all here --a point in the book's favor, IMO.) They may be a bit uncharacteristically slow on the uptake, though --I figured out some aspects of the mystery before they did, though the author also managed to throw me a curveball or two in the big reveal.
Staub is a well-credentialed, prolific commercial author and ghost writer of mostly genre fiction. Her success isn't a fluke; this book isn't deep metaphysical fiction that uses the supernatural as a springboard for serious theological or philosophical reflection, but it's solid, entertaining pulp supernatural adventure (like the series), with a workmanlike style and a trio of likable heroines who care about others, are committed to good as best they understand it, and are willing to take on well-defined evil head-to-head. While the author is a New Yorker, I'd say her descriptions of southern Louisiana are those of someone who's actually been there (and I base that on having been there myself, though not in New Orleans itself). I could also tell that she actually researched herbal and voodoo lore, so as to know what she was talking about in these areas (one doesn't, for instance, casually toss off reference to the use of John the Conqueror root in occult potions without having actually read about it --the average person has never heard of it). She also provides a very good literary treatment of the traditional zombie concept, which is more my cup of tea than the contemporary "zombie apocalypse" mutation.
Barb owns a couple more Charmed spin-off novels, which are also on my to-read list. They'll never rank as landmark genre classics; but I enjoyed this one, and look forward to reading the others someday.
The primary audience for this and similar spin-off books is people who already like the series. But if you're not familiar with the latter, it could also serve as a good introduction. Staub imparts basic, barebones information about the premise early on in a quick, naturally-fitted sentence or two. The characterizations of the Charmed Ones are true to the series, and the sisterly camaraderie and wry humor that flavors the latter is here too. (This particular adventure spins off the earlier seasons, when the oldest sister Prue is still alive.) But for variety, this tale takes them away from their hometown of San Francisco to a well-realized southern Louisiana setting. (In the series, all of the sisters were known to cuss a bit at times, and none of them were 100% celibate before marriage; but there's no bad language or sex at all here --a point in the book's favor, IMO.) They may be a bit uncharacteristically slow on the uptake, though --I figured out some aspects of the mystery before they did, though the author also managed to throw me a curveball or two in the big reveal.
Staub is a well-credentialed, prolific commercial author and ghost writer of mostly genre fiction. Her success isn't a fluke; this book isn't deep metaphysical fiction that uses the supernatural as a springboard for serious theological or philosophical reflection, but it's solid, entertaining pulp supernatural adventure (like the series), with a workmanlike style and a trio of likable heroines who care about others, are committed to good as best they understand it, and are willing to take on well-defined evil head-to-head. While the author is a New Yorker, I'd say her descriptions of southern Louisiana are those of someone who's actually been there (and I base that on having been there myself, though not in New Orleans itself). I could also tell that she actually researched herbal and voodoo lore, so as to know what she was talking about in these areas (one doesn't, for instance, casually toss off reference to the use of John the Conqueror root in occult potions without having actually read about it --the average person has never heard of it). She also provides a very good literary treatment of the traditional zombie concept, which is more my cup of tea than the contemporary "zombie apocalypse" mutation.
Barb owns a couple more Charmed spin-off novels, which are also on my to-read list. They'll never rank as landmark genre classics; but I enjoyed this one, and look forward to reading the others someday.
June 19, 2023
"Blutmond" ist der 5. Band der "Charmed" Reihe. Es handelt sich um eine eigenständige Geschichte, sie kommt in der TV-Serie nicht vor. Mir hat auch dieses Buch rund um die zauberhaften Schwestern wieder richtig gut gefallen!
Die Atmosphäre ist durchaus schaurig und die Kulisse von New Orleans kommt richtig gut zur Geltung. Der Schreibstil ist aber teilweise etwas anstrengend und nicht immer flüssig. Vielleicht ist das aber auch nur mein persönliches Empfinden.
Von mir gibt es auf jeden Fall 4,5 Sterne und eine klare Leseempfehlung für alle Charmed-Fans.
Die Atmosphäre ist durchaus schaurig und die Kulisse von New Orleans kommt richtig gut zur Geltung. Der Schreibstil ist aber teilweise etwas anstrengend und nicht immer flüssig. Vielleicht ist das aber auch nur mein persönliches Empfinden.
Von mir gibt es auf jeden Fall 4,5 Sterne und eine klare Leseempfehlung für alle Charmed-Fans.
June 5, 2021
Ovo je peta knjiga (a četvrta objavljena kod nas) u serijalu o sestrama Halivel. Za razliku od prve koja nije imala nikakvu specijalnu radnju, ova je malo bolja. Možda bi mi knjige bile zanimljive, koliko sama serija, da sam malo mlađi, ali više od tri zvezdice ne mogu da joj dam.
February 5, 2017
I was wondering if the sister that is alone on the cover is always the target. mostly one of the sisters is more in front. Voodoo Moon is one of the first in the exception. Besides it is just a theory that I just started although I thought about it in Whispers from the past. Where it was Phoebe. Since the picture on Voodoo Moon doesn't show the connection between Phoebe and Prue, Phoebe again is alone. And surprise surprise target or the one that has the problem.
A new theory and enough time this year to figure it out. Plan to read them all!
What was new about this book for me, was that the first time I read it, which was when it was first published here so around 2008/2009.. I didn't understand much about New Orleans. However in the years of my reading time I have seen The Princess and the Frog which already explains something and I read another series that is situated in New Orleans. Now I finally understood a bit more about the words and dishes that they mentioned. Interesting to see myself develop this way.
A new theory and enough time this year to figure it out. Plan to read them all!
What was new about this book for me, was that the first time I read it, which was when it was first published here so around 2008/2009.. I didn't understand much about New Orleans. However in the years of my reading time I have seen The Princess and the Frog which already explains something and I read another series that is situated in New Orleans. Now I finally understood a bit more about the words and dishes that they mentioned. Interesting to see myself develop this way.
April 30, 2015
Voodoo Moon has been my favourite Charmed novel so far! I loved the setting of New Orleans, and the voodoo stuff was really interesting. I liked how the history and types of voodoo were included. In the last Charmed book I read, Whispers of the Past, I felt like the sisters weren't true to character, but they were definitely a lot better in this one. Looking forward to continuing with the rest of the series!
June 13, 2022
Spooky. I don't recall voodoo ever being brought up much in the show? Also interesting to see the sisters in the south instead of the west coast.
January 16, 2022
Rating: 3.5 stars
This was a fun story, in the sense that I was back in the charmed universe. I did get pretty bored in the middle, and I saw the ending coming a mile away. ( At least who the bad guy was ). I did enjoy the last couple of pages a lot though, it was a fun ride but I don't think I would want to read it again.
This was a fun story, in the sense that I was back in the charmed universe. I did get pretty bored in the middle, and I saw the ending coming a mile away. ( At least who the bad guy was ). I did enjoy the last couple of pages a lot though, it was a fun ride but I don't think I would want to read it again.
January 6, 2024
These books are all so fun. They are not earth shattering by any means, but they're like watching an episode of Charmed. This one was particularly fun because it takes us out of San Francisco and into New Orleans.
April 4, 2025
The best one in the series so far! Really enjoyed this one. The last 30 or so pages moved at a breakneck pace and the ending felt a little rushed, but overall a really interesting little story.
June 21, 2013
Another Charmed book read, but was it all that it was cracked up to be? Clearly not by my rating.
This wasn't a typical Charmed story, this failed to draw in the reader. I have been a long-time fan of Charmed and I have been going over my Charmed box sets recently and have just finished Series 4, but this failed to capture the Charmed essence which featured in the previous books.
The story was thick, full of surprises and it would have gotten a high rating from me however the writing style definitely let it down.
The characters failed to be the people we know and love. Phoebe was not too far off but some of the things she said just wasn't her at all. As for Piper and Prue, they were so far from themselves it was unbelievable. Yes I get that Prue and Piper are into Museums and cookery respectfully but they aren't obsessed with it and thinking about it every second of the day as the book suggested.
As for the setting, we were taken to Louisiana, New Orleans. A whole new place that should've been full of description so we can imagine being there ourselves, yet many things were left out, so I had to make a few things up as I continued to read.
But as the story thickened, I got more and more interested and I really thought I might be pushing my rating up, but as soon as a zombie came in, that was it, my rating rolled down again, and the story just got a little too far-fetched to an extent.
This wasn't a typical Charmed story, this failed to draw in the reader. I have been a long-time fan of Charmed and I have been going over my Charmed box sets recently and have just finished Series 4, but this failed to capture the Charmed essence which featured in the previous books.
The story was thick, full of surprises and it would have gotten a high rating from me however the writing style definitely let it down.
The characters failed to be the people we know and love. Phoebe was not too far off but some of the things she said just wasn't her at all. As for Piper and Prue, they were so far from themselves it was unbelievable. Yes I get that Prue and Piper are into Museums and cookery respectfully but they aren't obsessed with it and thinking about it every second of the day as the book suggested.
As for the setting, we were taken to Louisiana, New Orleans. A whole new place that should've been full of description so we can imagine being there ourselves, yet many things were left out, so I had to make a few things up as I continued to read.
But as the story thickened, I got more and more interested and I really thought I might be pushing my rating up, but as soon as a zombie came in, that was it, my rating rolled down again, and the story just got a little too far-fetched to an extent.
January 29, 2025
The fifth media tie-in novel of the Charmed TV show set in between the first and second season.
The Halliwell sisters are planning a trip to New Orleans for R&R and no magic but they sort of break those rules fairly quickly.
Prue arrives late to the airport and almost loses her seat on the plane but Piper freezes the stand-by passenger and allows Prue to get checked in and not lose her spot as they begin to board.
The woman Gabrielle is not very happy and lets out her inner Karen as the sisters head off to The Big Easy. Once there, Phoebe didn't lock in their reservation to the hotel and now they have nowhere to stay as it starts pouring down rain.
The sisters run into Gabrielle , who took the next flight, and apologizes for being so rude as she was having a family emergency. Learning they are stranded, Gabrielle points them to staying at a plantation home outside the city being renovated to accomodate guests. She knows the people who live there and calls to get the Halliwell sisters rooms after they rent themselves a car.
The sisters find themselves the only guests there after a couple leaves that had already been there for a week. The Montagues own the mansion inherited through the family and have a gardener on staff named Randy and a cook/ maid named Yvonne.
Piper and Phoebe are both attracted to Randy while Prue marvels at the authenticity of the home and objects within. Exploring the place, Phoebe ends up having a vision of a young woman in danger and gets a warning from Yvonne not to be snooping around.
Later that night, Phoebe hears almost tribal drumming and has a dream that someone is about to stab her with scissors. She wakes up the next morning and finds that her hair isn't tucking behind her ear just right as if a lock of it had been cut off...
Prue and Piper don't believe her as they go into New Orleans to sight see but Prue ends up having to use her power to knock a would be robber from shooting Phoebe and taking their money when they get lost in a closed alley. The restaurant where chef Piper would like to dine is packed so they head back out to the sticks.
Phoebe thinks she saw Yvonne cooking up some sort of potion with a lock of her hair in the pot but when she goes to show Prue and Piper, it is a regular gumbo for that evening's dinner. The Montagues have a nightcap of sherry and Phoebe drinks a little too much and flirts with Randy to Piper's chagrin.
Later that night, Piper starts to hear the drumming as well as seeing what looks to be a fire in the brush behind the plantation. Piper gets close enough to see red robed and masked figures doing animal sacrifices while chanting but some alligators have her running back to the mansion and slamming into Randy.
Piper snuck by his cabin so he went to investigate and he warns Piper to not go wandering at night...
The next day, Piper tells her sisters what she saw and Phoebe isn't feeling too well. Thinking she either has a hangover or food poisoning, they leave her to rest and go back to New Orleans to pay a visit to Gabrielle. The business card she gave Prue lists her as working as a curator at a voodoo museum and the two of them meet her sister Helene and Helene's boyfriend Andre while there.
Busy with tourists, Prue and Piper explore the museum but learn that all of this voodoo iconography is even too creepy for them as witches to handle. Not to mention the fact that both Toussaint sisters seem to be very into both the positive and negative aspects of the religion from snippets of dialogue the Halliwell sisters overhear.
Out at the plantation, a still icky feeling Phoebe goes out for a stroll and finds herself feeling better once she spots Randy. He wants to show her the beauty of the family cemetery yet as they walk, Phoebe stumbles to have Randy steady her.
Grabbing onto his arm brings Phoebe another vision of the young woman she saw earlier being attacked by a giant snake in what looks to be some sort of sacrifice. If that doesn't make her uneasy enough, a poisonous snake crosses their path but Randy is able to subdue the snake by grabbing it and murmuring some words which seem to make it leave...
All of this combined with Phoebe getting weaker has the sisters pack their bags to go and stay with Gabrielle. Things only go from bad to worse when Gabrielle finds that Helene has gone missing...with voodoo symbols on the walls of her trashed apartment.
Some twists and turns with lots of suspense that would have made for great episode of Charmed proper if perhaps a little cliched. Voodoo in New Orleans, really?
Other than that, Voodoo Moon is good at building the bond between the sisters yet showing well...just how they can get on each other's nerves. Phoebe, of course as the youngest, gets to be the damsel in distress since her power is only premonitions and not freezing people or telekinetically sending them flying. Yet, in a way, the visions she ends up getting in the book do drive the story along so she isn't completely helpless.
Piper gets to standout a little bit from her sisters so that is always a plus as I relate to her more and she always has to be stuck as the middle child in the early seasons and books...
Prue, of course, is Prue. Hard shell on the outside but sweet on the inside...
Kind of darker in tone but that puts Voodoo Moon at an advantage with a little less sisterly snark and more of The Charmed Ones being badass witches!
The Halliwell sisters are planning a trip to New Orleans for R&R and no magic but they sort of break those rules fairly quickly.
Prue arrives late to the airport and almost loses her seat on the plane but Piper freezes the stand-by passenger and allows Prue to get checked in and not lose her spot as they begin to board.
The woman Gabrielle is not very happy and lets out her inner Karen as the sisters head off to The Big Easy. Once there, Phoebe didn't lock in their reservation to the hotel and now they have nowhere to stay as it starts pouring down rain.
The sisters run into Gabrielle , who took the next flight, and apologizes for being so rude as she was having a family emergency. Learning they are stranded, Gabrielle points them to staying at a plantation home outside the city being renovated to accomodate guests. She knows the people who live there and calls to get the Halliwell sisters rooms after they rent themselves a car.
The sisters find themselves the only guests there after a couple leaves that had already been there for a week. The Montagues own the mansion inherited through the family and have a gardener on staff named Randy and a cook/ maid named Yvonne.
Piper and Phoebe are both attracted to Randy while Prue marvels at the authenticity of the home and objects within. Exploring the place, Phoebe ends up having a vision of a young woman in danger and gets a warning from Yvonne not to be snooping around.
Later that night, Phoebe hears almost tribal drumming and has a dream that someone is about to stab her with scissors. She wakes up the next morning and finds that her hair isn't tucking behind her ear just right as if a lock of it had been cut off...
Prue and Piper don't believe her as they go into New Orleans to sight see but Prue ends up having to use her power to knock a would be robber from shooting Phoebe and taking their money when they get lost in a closed alley. The restaurant where chef Piper would like to dine is packed so they head back out to the sticks.
Phoebe thinks she saw Yvonne cooking up some sort of potion with a lock of her hair in the pot but when she goes to show Prue and Piper, it is a regular gumbo for that evening's dinner. The Montagues have a nightcap of sherry and Phoebe drinks a little too much and flirts with Randy to Piper's chagrin.
Later that night, Piper starts to hear the drumming as well as seeing what looks to be a fire in the brush behind the plantation. Piper gets close enough to see red robed and masked figures doing animal sacrifices while chanting but some alligators have her running back to the mansion and slamming into Randy.
Piper snuck by his cabin so he went to investigate and he warns Piper to not go wandering at night...
The next day, Piper tells her sisters what she saw and Phoebe isn't feeling too well. Thinking she either has a hangover or food poisoning, they leave her to rest and go back to New Orleans to pay a visit to Gabrielle. The business card she gave Prue lists her as working as a curator at a voodoo museum and the two of them meet her sister Helene and Helene's boyfriend Andre while there.
Busy with tourists, Prue and Piper explore the museum but learn that all of this voodoo iconography is even too creepy for them as witches to handle. Not to mention the fact that both Toussaint sisters seem to be very into both the positive and negative aspects of the religion from snippets of dialogue the Halliwell sisters overhear.
Out at the plantation, a still icky feeling Phoebe goes out for a stroll and finds herself feeling better once she spots Randy. He wants to show her the beauty of the family cemetery yet as they walk, Phoebe stumbles to have Randy steady her.
Grabbing onto his arm brings Phoebe another vision of the young woman she saw earlier being attacked by a giant snake in what looks to be some sort of sacrifice. If that doesn't make her uneasy enough, a poisonous snake crosses their path but Randy is able to subdue the snake by grabbing it and murmuring some words which seem to make it leave...
All of this combined with Phoebe getting weaker has the sisters pack their bags to go and stay with Gabrielle. Things only go from bad to worse when Gabrielle finds that Helene has gone missing...with voodoo symbols on the walls of her trashed apartment.
Some twists and turns with lots of suspense that would have made for great episode of Charmed proper if perhaps a little cliched. Voodoo in New Orleans, really?
Other than that, Voodoo Moon is good at building the bond between the sisters yet showing well...just how they can get on each other's nerves. Phoebe, of course as the youngest, gets to be the damsel in distress since her power is only premonitions and not freezing people or telekinetically sending them flying. Yet, in a way, the visions she ends up getting in the book do drive the story along so she isn't completely helpless.
Piper gets to standout a little bit from her sisters so that is always a plus as I relate to her more and she always has to be stuck as the middle child in the early seasons and books...
Prue, of course, is Prue. Hard shell on the outside but sweet on the inside...
Kind of darker in tone but that puts Voodoo Moon at an advantage with a little less sisterly snark and more of The Charmed Ones being badass witches!
September 29, 2015
I loved how this book took place somewhere other than San Francisco and thought that the location of New Orleans was a great alternative location. I found the book to be fun, but who the bad person was wasn't a surprise at all and I thought the sisters were pretty slow to figure it out. Still, I would recommend it to fans of Charmed.
August 4, 2024
Horror, maar net zoals de gelijknamige tv-reeks is het veel meer dan enkel griezelen. Het gaat ook over bloedverwantschap en liefde tussen 3 zussen die voor mekaar door het vuur gaan (soms letterlijk, het zijn tenslotte heksen). Er zit humor in, een portie geheimzinnigheid...
In dit boekje willen de meisjes even afstand nemen van alle magie, getover en tot rust komen. Daarvoor boekt Phoebe een reis naar New Orleans (dus geschreven voor die stad enkel jaren geleden totaal verwoest werd). New Orleans bekend van Mardi Gras, voodoo, lekker eten en moerassen met kaaimannen en slangen.
Het begin slecht, op de luchthaven krijgen ze ruzie met een andere passagier, nonchalante Phoebe heeft niet op de bevestiging van de boeking van de kamers gewacht en hun vlucht heeft vertraging. Geen vervoer en geen hotel. Maar de vrouw waarmee ze slaande ruzie hadden bij vertrek komt hen te hulp en wijst een mooi landhuis waar ze kunnen logeren. Heel afgelegen, midden in de moerassen en er zijn schijnbaar geen andere gasten... en daarmee zitten ze middenin weer een levensgevaarlijk avontuur. Ze merken dat er iets niet klopt maar leggen alle aanwijzingen en verdachte zaken verkeerd uit. De drie redenen waarom ze naar New Orleans kwamen lopen ook uit op drie keer een flop. Overal zien ze sporen van voodoo maar ze lachen dat weg.
Dit is echt een boek vol gemiste kansen waar ze met open ogen in hun ongeluk lopen en pas op het allerlaatste nippertje op een bovennatuurlijke wijze gered worden. Ondertussen was Phoebe al wel een zombie geworden.
Het boek zit vol informatie over New Orleans, of toch hoe het vroeger was, en over voodoo. Dat alleen al maakt het de moeite waard, nog afgezien van het feit dat Wendy Corsi Staub de 3 zusjes met haar gouden pen tot leven brengt. Dit boekt houdt de aandacht vast van begin tot eind. En dan neem je gewoon het volgende uit de reeks om verder te kunnen lezen.
In dit boekje willen de meisjes even afstand nemen van alle magie, getover en tot rust komen. Daarvoor boekt Phoebe een reis naar New Orleans (dus geschreven voor die stad enkel jaren geleden totaal verwoest werd). New Orleans bekend van Mardi Gras, voodoo, lekker eten en moerassen met kaaimannen en slangen.
Het begin slecht, op de luchthaven krijgen ze ruzie met een andere passagier, nonchalante Phoebe heeft niet op de bevestiging van de boeking van de kamers gewacht en hun vlucht heeft vertraging. Geen vervoer en geen hotel. Maar de vrouw waarmee ze slaande ruzie hadden bij vertrek komt hen te hulp en wijst een mooi landhuis waar ze kunnen logeren. Heel afgelegen, midden in de moerassen en er zijn schijnbaar geen andere gasten... en daarmee zitten ze middenin weer een levensgevaarlijk avontuur. Ze merken dat er iets niet klopt maar leggen alle aanwijzingen en verdachte zaken verkeerd uit. De drie redenen waarom ze naar New Orleans kwamen lopen ook uit op drie keer een flop. Overal zien ze sporen van voodoo maar ze lachen dat weg.
Dit is echt een boek vol gemiste kansen waar ze met open ogen in hun ongeluk lopen en pas op het allerlaatste nippertje op een bovennatuurlijke wijze gered worden. Ondertussen was Phoebe al wel een zombie geworden.
Het boek zit vol informatie over New Orleans, of toch hoe het vroeger was, en over voodoo. Dat alleen al maakt het de moeite waard, nog afgezien van het feit dat Wendy Corsi Staub de 3 zusjes met haar gouden pen tot leven brengt. Dit boekt houdt de aandacht vast van begin tot eind. En dan neem je gewoon het volgende uit de reeks om verder te kunnen lezen.
December 24, 2019
I really enjoyed Voodoo Moon! This was definitely, so far, my favorite Charmed book. The story is so fascinating and kept me entertained! Wendy Corsi Staub wrote the Charmed Ones well! Their book personalities were spot on and fully represented the TV show characters.
I kept visualizing how awesome this would’ve been as an actual episode!
I kept visualizing how awesome this would’ve been as an actual episode!
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December 3, 2022Nagyon szeretem a boszorkányság különbözőségét. Minden népcsoportnak megvan a maga hite, és New Orleans pedig az a város, amit egyszer mindenképp látni akarok. Szóval ez a rész a kedvenceim közé tartozik, bár kicsit jó lett volna még mélyebben belelátni ebbe is. Szegény Phoebe-t nagyon sajnáltam, annyira várta a nyaralást, végül meg végig rosszul volt.
July 8, 2024
I am a very big Charmed fan and love that there are books too.
It's great they incorporated voodoo as it was a different form of magic, and away from home and the book of shadows, so they had to do this themselves.
I would have liked an explanation as to why Randy had the charm at the end for Zdenek, but other than that it flowed well.
It's great they incorporated voodoo as it was a different form of magic, and away from home and the book of shadows, so they had to do this themselves.
I would have liked an explanation as to why Randy had the charm at the end for Zdenek, but other than that it flowed well.
March 21, 2022
Let me tell you... I was obsessed with the Charmed series and have watched it from Pilot to the Final episode about 10 times and I won't ever get tired of it. I saw this book in my pile and added it to my Goodreads account.
September 20, 2023
I really enjoyed the scenery of Louisiana in this book. Prue, Piper, and Phoebe touring the town and learning about voodoo rituals. Learning about the loas was interesting, and I didn't expect that ending 😳 This is so far my favorite book of the Charmed series.
July 17, 2025
A fast paced quick read, good for any Charmed fan. It's nice to have a Charmed story set away from San Francisco and dealing with different lore and evil characters. A couple of obvious twists, and some unexpected ones evens out for a pleasant read.
March 3, 2019
I've always found Voodoo fascinating, and watching my favorite trio of witches encounter it was worth the wait! Great read!
February 19, 2020
The writing in this one is significantly better than the ones that came before, but for whatever reason I had a hard time falling into the story.
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March 7, 2021
Re-reading this one after all these tears sure was nostalgic. I miss these lovely witches and their wiccan adventures!
August 9, 2021
Objectively a four. But I'm never objective when it comes to Charmed.
October 17, 2021
Like it. Recommended to anyone who want to read something light about witches.
Is super easy to get thought.
And I really like that Randy wasn't a mother fucking after all.
Is super easy to get thought.
And I really like that Randy wasn't a mother fucking after all.
April 1, 2022
Love charmed, tv series and book
May 4, 2022
"Ehhh" is my overwhelming impression of this book.
December 5, 2022
This was a fast read. It was also a reread and one of my favorite of the Charmed tie in novels. Almost wish this had been a real episode.
February 4, 2024
Très bon livre avec ce voyage en Louisiane qui vire au cauchemar, j'ai bien aimé l'intrigue et je ne m'attendais pas à ce dénouement !
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October 1, 2025
Another enjoyable read.
So easy to imagine the actors acting out these novels.. even if they haven't been made into the TV adaptation.
So easy to imagine the actors acting out these novels.. even if they haven't been made into the TV adaptation.
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