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A Road Trip from Hell

Pale Demon by Kim Harrison

March 11, 2018 by teresaelectro Leave a Comment

I’ve been slowly working my way through Kim Harrison’s urban fantasy series, The Hollows. For CBR10, I’m finally reviewing the ninth book in the series, Pale Demon. The book kicks off with the powerful witch, Rachel, and her supernatural business partners and BFFs, Jinx the pixie and Ivy the living vampire, on their way to the national witches convention in San Francisco. Rachel also needs to attend her brother’s wedding. She’s excited to see her mom at least. Of course, supernatural troubles won’t make the 2,300+ mile trek across the country easy. If you haven’t read the previous books beware of mild spoilers below […]

3/11/2018 teresaelectro's CBR10 Review No:7 |

Hello darkness, my old friend

White Witch, Black Curse by Kim Harrison

May 17, 2017 by Malin Leave a Comment

3.5 stars This is book seven in an ongoing series. Not the place to start. The review will also contain spoilers for earlier books in the series. Begin with Dead Witch Walking, if you’re interested. For someone who was really rather sceptical to anything but earth magic, considering even layline magic a bit suspect at the beginning of this series, independent runner (think supernatural private detective/bounty hunter) Rachel Morgan has sure come a long way. Now she’s not only a fairly adept layline witch, but her blood (thanks to a rare genetic abnormality) can kindle demon magic and because of […]

5/17/2017 Malin's CBR9 Review No:47 |

In which Rachel discovers some truths about her family she wishes had remained buried

The Outlaw Demon Wails by Kim Harrison

May 1, 2017 by Malin Leave a Comment

This is book six in a series, it’s very much not the place to start reading. In fact, there’s a whole bunch of stuff revealed in this book that really requires prior knowledge to the books, so go start at the beginning with Dead Witch Walking. Rachel still has absolutely no idea who killed her boyfriend, and because of the memory potion she drank, her memories of the event are still very fuzzy. Someone is summoning Algaliarept, the demon whom she owes favours to out of the Ever After every evening, and he’s determined to cause trouble for Rachel until […]

5/1/2017 Malin's CBR9 Review No:37 |

Rachel really makes for the most hilariously inappropriate bridesmaid ever

For a Few Demons More by Kim Harrison

April 10, 2017 by Malin Leave a Comment

4.5 stars This is book five in a series, and most definitely not the best place to start. Begin with Dead Witch Walking, and possibly skip this review if you don’t want spoilers for earlier books in the series. There are dead werewolf women turning up in the morgue, apparently having committed suicide. Someone else appears to be murdering werewolves after keeping them tied up, and after some investigation, independent runner and calamity-prone witch Rachel Morgan is pretty sure she knows what the connection between all the deaths is. During her last adventure, she retrieved an ancient and very powerful […]

4/10/2017 Malin's CBR9 Review No:31 |

My least favourite book of the entire series

A Fistful of Charms by Kim Harrison

April 9, 2017 by Malin Leave a Comment

Spoiler warning! This is the fourth book in an ongoing series, and not the place to start reading. Dead Witch Walking is where you want to begin. Also, there will be plot spoilers in this review, so if you want to avoid that sort of thing, don’t click the link to read the rest on my blog. Rachel Morgan, witch for hire, discovers that her ex-boyfriend Nick Sparagmos wasn’t just a part-time librarian with a knack for demon summoning, but in fact a thief, specialising in supernatural objects. Now Nick is in trouble, and her business partner, Jenks the pixy, […]

4/9/2017 Malin's CBR9 Review No:30 |

Double-crossing demons is dangerous

Every Which Way But Dead by Kim Harrison

March 25, 2017 by Malin Leave a Comment

4.5 stars This is book three in a series. This review will contain spoilers for previous books in the series, so if you mind that sort of thing, skip this, and start at the beginning, with Dead Witch Walking. Never one to live a quiet life, Rachel Morgan, independent witch for hire is in trouble. She successfully took down the master vampire who was summoning demons to murder leyline witches and lived to tell the tale. She had to bargain with a demon in order to do so, and he now wants to make her his familiar. She tricks Algaliarept, […]

3/25/2017 Malin's CBR9 Review No:27 |

Chasing serial killers in Cincinnati

The Good, the Bad and the Undead by Kim Harrison

March 24, 2017 by Malin Leave a Comment

4.5 stars This is book 2 in a series. You’d be better off starting with Dead Witch Walking. Rachel Morgan has successfully paid off the IS death threat and is in her third month of working as an independent runner. She still doesn’t have a car, however, and hates relying on public transport or rides from friends to get around. She’s also struggling to pay her bills from month to month, so when a werewolf pack refuses to pay her for snatching their pet fish back from another clan, she’s in a bit of a bind. The FIB, the human-led, […]

3/24/2017 Malin's CBR9 Review No:26 |

A witch, a vampire and a pixie walk into a bar

Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison

March 15, 2017 by Malin 2 Comments

Rachel Morgan is an earth witch (which means she uses wooden charms activated with drops of her own blood to do magic, as opposed to layline witches who draw their power from laylines) and works for the IS (Inderland Security), a police force consisting of supernaturals like witches, living vampires, werewolves, fairies and pixies. They police the supernatural crimes, while the FIB (Federal Inderland Bureau) is its mundane, human counterpart. For the last year, Rachel has had a run of truly awful assignments and what seems like very bad luck on top of things. She’s sick and tired of being […]

3/15/2017 Malin's CBR9 Review No:25 |

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