The Curse of Sara Douroux by C.A. Wittman
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Horror Thriller
“What must her life be like, I often wonder, living as a human.”
Sara Douroux lives on the island of Maui with her elderly adoptive parents. She doesn’t remember anything of her childhood or of coming to live in Hawaii. She can remember a year ago she got very sick, so sick she almost died. Her parents are set in the old ways, no doctors, no telephone, and very private, Sara is not allowed to have friends. A letter comes in the mail one day to her parents and they tell Sara that four cousins will be coming to stay with them for a month.
Not long after, four pale white young children arrive. They are so sick that they can barely walk or talk but Sara is told that under no circumstances is she to feed them. As soon as the children arrive, strange occurrences start to happen. The children seem to be growing daily, even through they never eat. Locals begin to see a pale white woman watching them at night. Sara knows that things are not right but her parents refuse to tell her the truth about their visitors or her. As a group of local kids start to investigate, they reveal a terrible danger and Sara may be the key to saving the whole valley.
“Sara looks like a ghost in the mirror and she feel like one too.”
“Who is Sara?” River asks again.
“She’s the cousin to the White Lady, but I don’t think they is blood related. I don’t think the White Lady is like peoples.”
“Animals are afraid of her,” Jenny adds.
“What happens when she’s around animals?”
“They go berserk,” Sunami says, eyeing him.”
A new take on vampirism. The premise was there but the execution was lacking, I was left a little confused. How did Hawaii play into this, was it just a faraway island they could hide in or was there some connection to the past? What are the old Hawaiian stories about Night Marchers? Where did Night Hunters come from and do they have anything to with Night Marchers? Will there be a prequel to help us understand how the dynamic of Master, High Servant, and slave come about and where and when it all began? What about the haunted house? I don’t feel like that added to the body of the story and only provided a distraction. I feel like the story got away from the author a little. That there were all these great ideas but when all put together they did not flow well, rather just made the story a little convoluted and hard to follow.
The story was thrilling and I was captivated throughout especially at the end. There were several shocking turn of events that kept my attention rapt, not wanting to put it down. I would definitely read a prequel or sequel, hopefully it would answer some of the lingering questions I have.
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