Bacchanal, Veronica G. Henry
Bacchanal, Veronica G. Henry
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Bacchanal

Author: Veronica G. Henry

Narrator: Robin Miles

Unabridged: 12 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/01/2021

Synopsis

Evil lives in a traveling carnival roaming the Depression-era South. But the carnival’s newest act, a peculiar young woman with latent magical powers, may hold the key to defeating it. Her time has come.Abandoned by her family, alone on the wrong side of the color line with little to call her own, Eliza Meeks is coming to terms with what she does have. It’s a gift for communicating with animals. To some, she’s a magical tender. To others, a she-devil. To a talent prospector, she’s a crowd-drawing oddity. And the Bacchanal Carnival is Eliza’s ticket out of the swamp trap of Baton Rouge.Among fortune-tellers, carnies, barkers, and folks even stranger than herself, Eliza finds a new home. But the Bacchanal is no ordinary carnival. An ancient demon has a home there too. She hides behind an iridescent disguise. She feeds on innocent souls. And she’s met her match in Eliza, who’s only beginning to understand the purpose of her own burgeoning powers.Only then can Eliza save her friends, find her family, and fight the sway of a primordial demon preying upon the human world. Rolling across a consuming dust bowl landscape, Eliza may have found her destiny.

About Veronica G. Henry

Veronica G. Henry was born in Brooklyn, New York, and has been a bit of a rolling stone ever since. Her work has appeared in various online publications. She is a graduate of the Viable Paradise Workshop and a member of SFWA.Veronica is proud to be of Sierra Leonean ancestry and counts her trip home as the most important of her life. She now writes from North Carolina, where she eschews rollerballs for fountain pens and fine paper. Other untreated addictions include chocolate and cupcakes. For more information, visit www.veronicahenry.net.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mary Robinette on January 29, 2021

If you took the Night Circus and viewed it through the gaze of a young Black woman in the Great Depression, you might get Veronica Henry's Bacchanal. Demons, lies, and secrets. This book is not an easy read, by turns uncomfortable and demanding that readers meet it partway. The journey is worthwhile......more

Goodreads review by abi on May 16, 2021

1.5* there's a really good story in here somewhere, but... this reads like a first draft. awkward, clunky, switching between rushed action and laboriously slow sections where nothing happens, over and over. also, the romance was pretty gross and entirely uncompelling, with liza seemingly having no re......more

Goodreads review by Ms. Woc Reader on June 08, 2021

I was enjoying Bacchanal at first. It follows a cast of characters working at a carnival in the 1930s. But this book was trying to crossover many genres and just wasn't hitting hard enough for me. It didn't have enough dark fantasy or horror elements to intrigue me. Much of the story is just followi......more

Goodreads review by Stitching on February 18, 2025

This story was right up my proverbial alley. I loved the circus and magical realism aspects. The main character was great and I enjoyed her dynamics with the other characters. My only real problem with this book was that I really struggled to keep track of the timeline of events, I was never quite s......more

Goodreads review by Beckee❤️ on June 13, 2021

This took a little while to get into as there were so many POV's to follow and a lot of activity thrown around all at once. However, I enjoyed it enough to finish the book and I really liked the ending!......more

Quotes

“In Henry’s debut novel it is Depression-era Baton Rouge, Louisiana where Eliza Meeks' abandonment by her family sets her on a journey in the GB Bacchanal Carnival, where she develops her special gift to communicate with animals.… Miles complements the enigmatic ambiance of the prose and calls upon an array of accents for the peculiar personalities that come to enrich the dynamics of the traveling carnival. She instinctively pulls the story together making it more cerebral and thoroughly engaging in audio.” —Booklist“[Robin] Miles imbues each character with a subtle accent and vocal personality. Her patient narration draws listeners into a historical fantasy populated by larger-than-life characters. Miles's performance is the perfect vehicle for this powerful story of a young woman's search for her destiny.” —AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award Winner“Bacchanal takes circus fantasy into the menacing gothic environment of the Depression-era South, and narrator Robin Miles once again demonstrates her mastery by making every moment of this wildly outlandish world seem immediate and real.”—The Seattle Times

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