Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison

Dead Witch Walking (Hollows, #1)

by Kim Harrison

From New York Times bestselling author, Kim Harrison, comes the first book in an exciting urban fantasy series; packed with the perfect balance of wry humour and thrilling action, which will delight fans of thrillers and fantasy alike.

Rachel Morgan is a white witch and runner working for Inderland Security, in an alternate world where a bioengineered virus wiped out a great deal of the world's human population - exposing the existence of the supernatural communities that had long lived alongside humanity.

For the last five years Rachel has been tracking down law-breaking Inderlanders in modern-day Cincinnati, but now she wants to leave and start her own agency. Her only problem is that no one quits the I.S.

Marked for death, Rachel will have to fend off fairy assassins and homicidal weres armed with an assortment of nasty curses. She's a dead witch walking unless she can appease her former employers by exposing the city's most prominent citizen as a drug lord. But making an enemy of the ambiguous Trent Kalamack is just as deadly as leaving the I.S.

Reviewed by Chelsea on

3 of 5 stars

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I was expecting a lot more from this book. It's been on my TBR the longest so I figured I'd give it a shot. I think Dead Witch Walking could have use some more action and there was parts that probably should have been cut out. It felt like a long book and it dragged on at a lot of parts. I also found that there was a lot of names being thrown around that we didn't know and we got no explanation. We were apparently supposed to know that Trent was some kind of bad guy yet we were never told why. That being said, I did enjoy the action parts and I might continue the series eventually to see if it gets better.

I liked the characters but we could have used some extra development for them. We don't really know much about their backgrounds but the author made it feel like we were expected to know. Jenks was a clear favourite from the start and I found we learned the most about him instead of any other character.

I'm not in any rush to finish this series but I might get around to it some day.

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