D. R. Burgess

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This review is part of the April Books Blog Tour (ironically in May) from Curiosity Quills Press. I'd like to thank them for a free copy of the book in exchange for an honest review!

Night's Colony is a mystery on many levels. It's not just the murder that's going on, or the complete craze with the witches, it seems like everyone has multiple things to hide. This made for an interesting, though at times somewhat confusing, novel. Especially a certain revelation concerning the main character, a native American boy now the ward of a New Port judge/detective.

Because the detective story is sometimes a bit rushed, think of a detective story in which the characters are constantly running around accusing everyone, I found the witch story more interesting. It seemed that at the dawn of the age of science, superstition was at its heights.

The writing was easy to read and quite nice, but I'm not quite sure it's the "authentic voice of the era". For me this was a quite interesting novel I enjoyed reading, although I do think that the mystery could have been a bit better.… (mehr)