I enjoyed this book, although I did feel a little lost since I didn’t read the first book. It was fast-paced and I liked the supernatural elements. I’m also a sucker for a FMC, so I did enjoy that as well.

I will say; without reading the first book, I did miss out on a lot of backstory and character development. Overall, the book was well-written and kept me engaged throughout.

Thank you to NetGalley & Berkley for the ARC.

A satisfying novel with realistic characters and scenes that will leave you begging for more. Great beach read or take it on your next safari.

This was a captivating mystery due to its touches of magical realism and possible horror in the waters of Bayern County. Anna Koray is a detective in the Bayern County Police Department confronted by a series of mysterious drownings in the river. She's also grappling with her past as the daughter of a serial killer. As she delves into the drownings, Anna is confronted by her past and a mysterious force working in the river. The book is a gripping good read, filled with an anxious aura of unbelievability yet one you want to believe because it could be real. It also tackles themes of misogyny and abuse. I want to thank Book Browse and the publisher for giving me the opportunity to read this ARC.

This is a new to me author and this book was great. Very well paced and kept me on the edge of my couch. Only thing is I didn't get much background story of Anna or her mom. Well you did but not much, just bits and pieces once in a while. Anna talks about her dad and how she is like him in some ways. I just don't know who her dad was so I will have to find that out.

In The Sister's Curse it seems like Anna can't step away from her fathers shadow. She constantly says she is like her dad, yet she isn't. The town has a curse and Anna is set out to find the route cause of the curse. Her mother just upped and left Anna without a care. You will see snippets of Anna's youth with her mother, and how her mother treated her.

I liked the storyline, witches, curses un-natural phenomenon. Like I said it was very well paced for me, held my attention throughout the book.

This was a great supernatural horror novel. I felt that it was face paced and I finished in 24hrs. The plot was original and captivating. The FMC was a balance of light and dark and the author did not hide Anna's dark side. The writing was engrossing and the atmosphere was primal and spooky.

I recommend that you read the first book The Hunter's Daughter before this follow-up. Though the book can be read as a standalone, the first book gives fundamental backstory information that is referenced in The Sister's Curse.

This one was kind of slow for me. I do think if you are a thriller lover it’s worth giving the time to.

What's in the water in Bayern County? Are there witches there that are cursing some of the wealthiest men in the area? Figuring out those questions and more falls to Lt. Anna Koray who has her own connection to evil as the daughter of a prolific serial killer. When multiple victims turn up with similar markings, Anna knows she has to be the one to get to the bottom of it all, and she has to fight to make it out alive.

One of my quibbles with this book was the light character development which others have blamed on this being the second book in a series. I love a good series but I also believe it is important to give the new reader enough detail so that the book can stand on its own, and the Sister's Curse treads perilously close to not giving a hearty enough backstory, especially where individual characters are concerned.

Author Nicola Solvinic does a great job at making the atmosphere sufficiently creepy and tense, and creates a place rife with suffering, especially in the case of girls and young women. An interesting plot that suffers from some uneven pacing, but not so much that I didn't want to know how it all turned out. 2.75 stars.

I received this advance copy from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review and feedback.

Witches...serial killer...I love these types of books. BUT I wish they would have said this was a sequel. Story was just ok for me.
Plot was good, but needed a bit more character development and history.

Thank you NetGalley and Berklwy Publishing Group for the advance copy.

It is hard to imagine being Anna Koray. Her father was a notorious serial killer. Her mother divorced him and abandoned Anna. Years later, she has survived and thrived, but no one knows her true identity. She is called out to investigate the near-drowning of a young local boy. The mysterious scratches on his legs have everyone baffled. Another victim turns up with similar scratches. What is in the water of Bayern County? The wealthy local businessmen dubbed the Kings of Warsaw Creek, exert their power to thwart Anna's investigation. A local legend named Vivian has been casting hexes on people, and many swear she has powers. As the investigation progresses, even the local church comes under scrutiny. Are all of these oddities coincidental, or is there truly an evil that exists in the water seeking revenge? Anna will have to keep her wits about her to untangle this series of events.

Poor Anna! Her early life would be traumatic to anyone. She has tremendous strength of character to overcome such adversity. Nicola Solvinic gathers many disparate elements and writes a cohesive story, capturing readers from the start. This isn't a horror story, yet there are horrors that occur. This isn't a book about serial killer's families, yet Anna comes from such a family. Anna is the perfect character to solve this mystery, and we get to tag along for the ride! People who enjoy thrillers, mysteries, and other creepy stuff will love this book.

Thank you, NetGalley, Berkley, and Nicola Solvinic for the advanced readers copy.

It had me at serial killer and witches, but unfortunately I The Sister's Curse to be a bit a underwhelming.

I enjoyed this book. I do wish it got into her father more. I was kind of confused about exactly what he did.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for allowing me to read this arc in exchange for an honest review!

This book was a good book. The plot really captives your attention and keeps you focused on the story taking place. Where I though this book was lacking was the fact that there was not a lot of character development throughout the book which made it hard for me to truly LOVE the book. I liked it but it is not a book I would crave to go back and read again. Thank you for the opportunity to read and review this book NetGalley!

The Sister’s Curse was a fast fun read. Paranormal mixed with mystery.

Thoughts:
I really wish they had advertised this as a sequel. When I requested this book I checked to see if it was and nothing was stated so I asked for it. Come to find out that it is indeed a sequel. You can read this without the first but you miss out of a lot of history and you get spoiled. The other part is that since this is a sequel the author assumes you already know the characters so you see a lack of description/location. I have no idea how old the main character is, what color hair she is or even skin tone. This goes for all the characters. Each person they actually describe is very surface level. You don’t get much more than that. Everyone is just kind of flat. Again a lot of this is because it was a sequel, which needs to be advertised better.

The plot is really good and makes up for the lack of background/character descriptions. Anna is a LT for the police department when she responds to a missing child call. She finds the child in the owners pond and rescues him, but as she’s pulling him up there is resistance. She gets him out of the water and find odd scratches on his ankles. More incidents like this continue and the Anna must determine the cause. Is it paranormal in nature? A spirit of revenge from a woman who was killed 25 years ago? Or is it a vengeance human? Anna plans to find out. There wasn’t a lot of twists, you could see a lot of what was happening but the whodunnit is still kind of a mystery. There was one large plot hole that bothered me (Anna was attacked several times and it was never revealed why.) The history interconnected with the past book and I really wish I had read it first to understand what happened. So before reading this check out The Hunter’s Daughter.

Characters: As I previously mentioned the physical description of characters was really missing. I’m assuming there was a lot more in the first book. But what we do get is an in depth look into Anna missing memories (that don’t correlate with her father.) Nick seems like a great character but he was very one dimensional. I felt nothing for or against him.

Overall: 3.25/3.5 I liked the story, I just wish it had more description and backstory for those who didn’t read or know that this was a sequel.

Thank you Berkley and NetGalley for the arc. This review is posted to Goodreads and Storygraph.

Thank you @netgalley and @berkleypub for giving me a copy of this book. I loved the Haunter's Daughter so when I got this book I was so excited. It isn't just your normal crime thriller because it has a supernatural element to it. It follows Lieutenant Anna Koray who is tormented by the legacy of her serial killer father. It follows through as she investigates all these drownings that are far from accidental. The story is full of witches, curses, superstitions, and legends. This book goes back and forth between her childhood and now and can seem slow at some points. I gave this book ⭐⭐⭐⭐'s.