Great blend of historical fiction and Lovecraftian horror
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This was a great start into a new series featuring the free black man Salem Hawley in the time after the American Revolution. The book tackles several topics at once, such as the still ongoing discrimination of black people, gruesomely displayed in the stealing of buried bodies for 'medical' purposes. Combine this with some doctors intent on studying, or rather conjuring the Other Ones, some otherworldly creatures inhabiting a parallel universe. While I immensely felt for Salem and his fight against the Resurrectionists, the supernatural element of the story was a nice-to-have, but not necessary add-on, without which the book would have been just as thrilling. However, I understand that the appearance of the Other Ones open up an even larger playground for further installments in the series. The author created a multilayered, well-thought plot with complex characters that definitely succeeds to get a reader instantly hooked to the series.
(Thanks to Netgalley, the author, and the publisher for a copy of the book, all opinions are my own)