Since I’m all caught up on The Dresden Files, and finished Kelley Armstrong’s Women of the Otherworld series (loved!), I was in need of another urban fantasy series that wouldn’t end up derailing (I’ve heard all about Anita Blake’s drop in quality). I feel like I’ve been seeing this series a lot lately, and Malin assured me they were worth the time.I really liked this novel as the first of the series, though I will say that the tone in the first few chapters is a bit off compared to the rest of the novel. One quote on the cover compared it to a mix of Dresden and Stephanie Plum, but I only really got Plum out of it in those first chapters. Once we get further into the novel, Rachel Morgan starts appearing as a relatively competent detective/enforcer/witch rather than the super ditzy and clueless person that she appears to be during her first mission in the bar. I’m not sure if she or the publisher wanted her to keep it very light in the beginning to draw in an audience, but I definitely enjoyed it more as the novel started diving into the details of Harrison’s world. Full review. – It’s definitely better than the cover!
