River Woman River Demon by Jennifer Givhan

When Eva's husband is arrested for the murder of a friend, she must confront her murky past and embrace her magick to find out what really happened that night on the river.

This book had such a strong premise. Wrongly accused suspect, murder, magick, a dark and shady past that is kind of connected. It delivered on basically none of it. The murder is solved by such a string of coincidences that it's unbelievable, the magick is mentioned a lot but we barely get to see any, and her past should have stayed in the past.

One of the worst parts of the book for me was the main character Eva. She is so incredibly selfish and self-centered and I spent most of the book irritated at her choices. The fact that she started sleeping with someone else less than a week after her husband was arrested and expected her two young kids to be okay with it was just repulsive. Especially considering she just up and leaves them with their aunt multiple times while their father is still incarcerated. There was also the that way she switched between loving her dead friend and husband and then in the next paragraph calling them every derogatory name under the sun almost gave me whiplash.

All in all I can't recommend this book. Having a protagonist that I despised really tanked the reading experience for me. I gave the book a 2/5.