This story surprised me: after the initial confusion given by the time jumps and backstories the plot blossomed. I loved the characters and how well the author managed to describe the magical lives and abilities of Suzanne and her ancestors.
Also, The writing and the settings are beautiful--so I'm very happy I read it!

A Southern Enchantress surprised me with its complex structure. Despite the initial confusion caused by multiple timelines and backstories, the story unfolds beautifully. The cover art, while gorgeous, doesn't quite represent the book's depth. It explores the lives of Suzanne and her ancestors, all with varying degrees of magical abilities, through interwoven narratives. While the romance with Max seemed like a bad choice at first (especially for someone who'd been through a similar situation!), Suzanne ultimately proves her strength and delivers long-awaited justice in a truly Southern way.

This book surprised me, it had multiple time jumps and lots of back stories to help build and idea of the characters and the plot. I enjoyed this and I’m glad I requested to read this, it was the cover that drew me in but story that keep me interested!

This story was not what I expected but I enjoyed it all the same. At the beginning I had a hard time taming the characters so I could keep track of who was doing what with whom. Most of the book are the back stories of Suzanne's mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. All of whom have varying degrees of witch-crafting powers.
As the story continued to unfold, the main character, Susanne, was in lust with a very bad character named Max. Very bad guy. Suzanne eventfully marries Max. To which I said to myself, oh, good grief. But I married a "Max", so I now I'm reading way past midnight to see what in the world she did that for. And she does protect herself from all the haunts who finally reveal themselves so the poor reader can say, oh, good, finally the women of all these generations are getting Suzanne to deliver revenge. And she does, in the nicest Southernly woman way.
I enjoyed this book (I'm Southern, older than 40, divorced from my "Max", and I think I'm wiser than I was at 40) and I believe most women over 40 would enjoy it as well.

The Southern Enchantress is a book I wanted to read for a long time. The cover caught my attention because it's so beautiful, but for me it was misleading.

The story has a lot of time jumps and it follows two stories set during tow different time periods. The story is quite confusing at first, but it slowly unravels and everything starts to make sense. I can't give much information without spoiling the book, but there are quite a few twists I didn't see coming.

me: i hate dual timelines
also me: continues to request dual timeline books and be shocked when i don't like them

I was drawn by the story by how it was set. The world building was good enough for me to be entertained. Though the plot was confusing and there was dual timeline that it took me some time to figure it out. I love how I knew from this moment that somehow I love paranormal stories. I like it though so yes I enjoyed this.

A Southern Enchantress by Deborah Trahan has so much promise. It was brilliant in parts.

But some portions were a little confusing and seemed to drag.

Still, overall, I really enjoyed reading this book.

I would definitely recommend it.

Thank You, NetGalley for giving me a chance to read this book.

I have very mixed feelings about this book.
I liked the multiple POVs and the characters but struggled with the time jumps and pacing a lot.

Thank you to the author and publisher, for the chance to read this ARC, in exchange for an honest review. Unfortunately, this wasn’t for me, I loved the premise but, the time jumps made the story hard to keep up with.

I loved the multiple POVs in this book. I love the atmosphere of the south. Especially new orleans. And the way this was told over a period of generations. I enjoyed this book very much

A Southern Enchantress is an interesting mix of fantasy and historical fiction and a must read for lovers of spirituality and the occult.

Our Southern Enchantress, Suzanne, is a divorced Mum of two who meets a dastardly handsome man at a garden party. Said handsome man, Max, has only one thing on his mind - her sizable divorce settlement, and dislikes Suzanne's attention being taken away by pesky ghosts.

Telling the story in multiple perspectives across two timelines was a bold move by Trahan - it's often difficult to keep up with who's who and when's when. While each character has their own unique voice, it is sometimes tricky to understand the time in which it is happening - especially between Max and Suzanne's chapters.

Firstly, thank you, NetGalley and Atmosphere Press, for giving me a copy of this beautiful book in exchange for an honest review.

A beautiful combination of magic realism and complex multigenerational tragedy, A Southern Enchantress is a dual timeline novel charting the lengths a legacy clairsentient and enchantress will go to in order to right the pain of the past.

At first, the dual timelines were a little confusing, but once the story really got going, they really helped to develop the generational heartbreak that is at the heart of this novel. The real highlight for me was the sheer volume of vivid imagery of both New Orleans and the Gulf Coast created by the author. You can clearly tell Deborah Trahan has done her research in developing this novel because I really felt like I was in the deep south of America from cover to cover; I could smell the saltiness of the sea, feel the warm late summer breeze and hear the call of the sea birds so deeply.

The generational heartbreak explored throughout hit me like very few other books have. It really felt that up until Suzanne, history was doomed to just keep repeating itself through the power that money and status held and continue to hold over people. It really stood out to me that whether in 1945 or 2013, the Lafountain women's lives revolved around the money and status held by their male relatives and was used as a form of control which I felt was explored really tactfully.

Overall, this novel is a beautiful, vividly colourful journey of one woman's quest to put an end to the heartbreaking generational trauma thrust upon her female ancestors for generations told with care, warmth and a ending leaving the reader with a lasting sense of satisfaction.

This book just isn’t my cup of tea and that’s okay!

I loved the descriptions and the atmosphere of the coast. I loved the full circle connections.

However, none of the characters were likable to me and the plot wasn’t my favorite!

Thank you NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book. While I was really interested in the premise and I love the cover, it was a bit confusing and hard to get into. Normally I do fine with dual timelines but it was a bit complicated to follow. I felt like I didn’t know what was going on. Also I didn’t find myself caring for any character and that makes it difficult to enjoy a book.

I requested this book because I was hearing things about it and because of the cover. The cover is so beautiful.
So far I liked this book.
I will be doing a detailed review very soon.

Thank you netgalley for alliwing me an advanced copy to give my honest review.

I loved the multiple POVs in this book. I love the atmosphere of the south. Especially new orleans. And the way this was told over a period of generations. I enjoyed this book very much

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for a copy of this book!

This story had me captivated from the very beginning. They way the author went between three main POV's to tell a story, one of the perspectives being from the 1940's, and the others being from 2013. And if you couldn't tell from the title. there is a lot of paranormal and magical elements to this story. As much as I loved that the author touched on sensitive topics, I do with that there was a trigger warning page as this book does discuss non-consent sex and drugging another person.

Thank you so much for the opportunity to read this book. I enjoyed it, though I was taken out of the story by POVs and timelines jumping around. It threw me off a bit, but I really loved the descriptions of the areas they were in, the characters, and the historical elements.

I really wanted to get into this book because the story, the setting and the characters were very intriguing and have a lot of potential.

Unfortunately, I had to dnf the book about a quarter in. I struggled to keep track of the story from the very beginning and it took me a few tries to try and get into it. The shifting pov with the time jumps made it quite difficult to keep track of what was going on. I think what would have helped a bit is to do a bit more world-building in the beginning and/or have longer chapters that introduce the characters and set the scene more before starting the jumps.

I did enjoy the fact that the time jump chapters were written in past tense. It gave the story more atmosphere. It did, however, have the unfortunate effect that the present tense chapters felt a bit more descriptive and less atmospheric. Maybe I just have a preference of past tense over present tense, so take it with a grain of salt.

Thank you NetGalley for providing me with a copy.