Sweet Unrest

Sweet Unrest by Lisa Maxwell, 324 pages

Lucy has just moved to New Orleans from Chicago.  Her parents are fascinated by history and Lucy’s father has landed a dream job overseeing a project designed to restore a plantation as a tourist attraction.  Lucy isn’t excited to be there but soon becomes interested in a boy that seems to be there as part of the staff.  Except he doesn’t show up in her photographs and Lucy starts having dreams about him that clearly take place in the past.  Combined with the murder of a friend, odd knick knacks that have turned up, and a Voodoo woman named Mama Legba, these things all spell trouble for Lucy if she can’t unravel the mysteries surrounding her.  This was a decent supernatural young adult story.  The mystery kept me guessing until the end and the creepy factor was just enough.  I liked the historical element also.  A good pick for teens.