Review of The Dolls by Kiki Sullivan

Advance Review for Kiki Sullivan's The Dolls

Release Date: September 2nd, 2014

Synopsis as found on GoodReads.com:

Eveny Cheval just moved back to Louisiana after spending her childhood in New York with her aunt Bea. Eveny hasn’t seen her hometown since her mother’s suicide fourteen years ago, and her memories couldn’t have prepared her for what she encounters. Because pristine, perfectly manicured Carrefour has a dark side full of intrigue, betrayal, and lies—and Eveny quickly finds herself at the center of it all.

Enter Peregrine Marceau, Chloe St. Pierre, and their group of rich, sexy friends known as the Dolls. From sipping champagne at lunch to hooking up with the hottest boys, Peregrine and Chloe have everything—including an explanation for what’s going on in Carrefour. And Eveny doesn’t trust them one bit.

But after murder strikes and Eveny discovers that everything she believes about herself, her family, and her life is a lie, she must turn to the Dolls for answers. Something’s wrong in paradise, and it’s up to Eveny, Chloe, and Peregrine to save Carrefour and make it right.

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Eveny believes her life is never going to be the same, when her aunt decides to move back to her small hometown of Carrefour, Louisiana from the place where she grew up, New York City... and she's right, but not in the way she thinks. She never knew she came from money, because she had always lived in a small apartment, struggling to live off only what her aunt could make from her low paying job. When she pulls up to the mansion that she now owns (thanks to her mother who died when Eveny was only a child), she realizes that nothing she knows from her past is true.

She is quickly thrown into a world of Zandara, a lesser known version of Voodoo that centers around the divine properties of herbs & plants. She learns that she is descended from one of the 3 great Zandara Queens of Carrefour. Given a Black Obsidian Stone Necklace that gives her the power to have anything she wishes for, as long as it is taken from somewhere else. She must not only weave her way into the lives of many new people, including the children of the other 2 Queens, but she must also figure out who killed one of her coven members. Rife with Mystery & Magic, this story will keep you guessing until the very last chapter.

If you had the power to have anything you wanted, would you take from the less fortunate to line your own pockets, or make yourself beautiful. Like Eveny, decide for yourself if you would use the powers in Vain or to help bring back a struggling town.