By : Kim Harrison
Published By : Harper Voyager
Released: Available Now
Details: Paperback from library, 501 Pages
RATING : 3.75 BIG AL STARS!!!
Book Blurb : Taken From Goodreads
There's no witch in Cincinnati tougher, sexier, or more screwed up than bounty hunter Rachel Morgan, who's already put her love life and soul in dire jeopardy through her determined efforts to bring criminal night creatures to justice.
Between "runs," she has her hands full fending off the attentions of her blood-drinking partner, keeping a deadly secret from her backup, and resisting a hot new vamp suitor.
Rachel must also take a stand in the war that's raging in the city's underworld, since she helped put away its former vampire kingpin--and made a deal with a powerful demon to do so that could cost her an eternity of pain, torment, and degradation.
And now her dark "master" is coming to collect his due.
BOOK REVIEW:
I’m having trouble trying to decide how I felt about book 3 in the Rachel Morgan/The Hollows series. I enjoyed it but sometimes it dragged on in parts. When it was good it was good, when it was dragging, it was draaaggging.
I get the whole Ivy lovin' and livin' with Rachel, but it doesn’t seem to progress one way or the other. We read about it a lot and those looks Ivy is giving out in her jealousy and 'I want to suck your bloooood' moments... but time to move this party on.
Trent to me is a big draw card and I always enjoy some cranky Jonathan and mysterious Quen, but did I have to wait until the last 120 odd pages. Let’s face it I know they are going to end up with each other. Well, that’s how I feel anyway, with all this pussy footing about not liking each other , but really, I think it’s inevitable. One character in Trent’s life just comes out of the blue and that’s when I realized how much I don’t know about Trent.
Jenks, my main sidekick who I absolutely love, well he throws a pixy fit and gets a character vacation.
Kisten, I really enjoyed in this book. His character wasn’t shallow like it has previously been. He actually is a great guy and I like him a lot. He has more depth for the reader. His character is flawed, but I like that he is trying.
Nick!! Kim what are you doing with him? I say no more.
I did miss my FIB boys, like where were you? I missed you.
The thing with this book and I did enjoy the story, Kim has a way with some of her characters just not being included anymore, for the whole book, when you think they are possibly a big enough asset to the storyline to have small parts , but then she brings in new characters. I get left wondering what happened to the others.
I found the storyline in this book to sometimes be over described or too much time spent in one area. I think to me that is where it draggggged.
I like all this 'out smarting Big Al', but I like more Trent and learning more about him and the 'why' of his character. The story really moves when Rachel and Trent are together and it’s fast paced with action. We do learn more in this book, but it’s book 3! Sometimes scenes jumped for me. I wanted to know more, but it was a case of...moving on.
Overall I am locked into this series and enjoying it and want to see where Kim takes the reader.
Michelle
By: Kim Harrrison
Published By : Harper Collins
Released : Available Now
Details : Hardback from library, 405 Pages
RATING : 4 QUIETLY WATCHING QUEN STARS!!
Book Blurb : Taken From Goodreads
Rachel Morgan's back, and in more trouble than ever! Fans of Laurell K. Hamilton and other vampire novels won't want to miss the second novel in Kim Harrison's addicting--and already bestselling--supernatural series.
Former-bounty-hunter Rachel Morgan has it pretty good. She s left the corrupt Inderland Runner Service and started her own independent service. She's survived werewolves, shape-changing demons, bad-hair days, and sharing a church with her vampire roommate Ivy. She even has a cute (if human) boyfriend-what more could a witch want?
But living with a reformed vampire isn't all it's cracked up to be, particularly when your roommate's very bad ex-boyfriend wants her back, and wouldn t mind you in the process. And especially when he's six feet of sheer supernatural seduction, and you've got a demon mark that makes vampires literally hotter than hell....
To save herself and Ivy, Rachel must confront the vampire master-and the dark secrets she's hidden even from herself.
BOOK REVIEW:
Jenks and Rachel are back as quite the team. Jenks is a great sidekick character. I really like the little fellow, he has a lot of spunk and is very brave. He always has Rachel’s back if she needs him.
There are a few surprises in this book. Some I worked out, some snuck up on me.
I am rather attracted to Quen. He is very mysterious. Trent Kalamack , I just can’t help putting him in front place for my Team guy, he’s not coming across good, but I am still wondering about that garden path we are being led up.
Jonathan is still being uber creepy, ha!
Nick isn’t really doing a lot for me. I’m not sure if this is deliberate or I am just not feeling his connection with Rachel. He is getting himself into some serious extra curricula activities that may eventually be his down fall. When Nick calls Rachel, 'Ray-ray', it did kind of get on my nerves. Right then I knew he wasn't going to be the guy for Rachel...Trent would never call her 'Ray-ray'.
Glenn, I really like this guy. I am beginning to wonder if he has a bit of a crush on Rachel. Just the way Kim writes him. Glenn and Jenks’ kiddies are quite funny. Glenn and his relationship with ketchup are also quite funny...ha!
The mystery in this book is the horrendous, disgusting , murders of Ley Line Witches. It ain’t pretty what is happening to them. Kim certainly knows how to paint a visual murder scene picture.
Ivy is becoming increasingly frightening to live with...and Kisten, well, is this another dude that Rachel has some feelings for, or is it the scar talking?
This book was slower paced at the start, but not like book # 1, when, ‘The Good, The Bad and the Undead’ heated up, it really heated up.
I’m in for the whole series as the books do get better , and I want to know if my theory with Trent is correct. There’s just something about him...
FAVE QUOTES:
“itsy-bitsy-skitsy.”
"I never said thank you."
"You're welcome anyway."
My lips pressed together. Ass.
"You called me by my first name, I like that."
I opened my mouth , then closed it. "So throw a party and invite the Pope......."
Michelle
By: Kim Harrison
Published By: Harper Voyager
Released : Available Now
Details: Paperback from library , 416 Pages
RATING : 3.75 TROUBLESOME TRENT STARS!!
Book Blurb : Taken From Goodreads
The underground population of witches, vampires, werewolves—creatures of dreams and nightmares—has lived beside humans for centuries, hiding their powers. But after a genetically engineered virus wipes out a large part of humanity, many of the "Inderlanders" reveal themselves, changing everything.
Rachel Morgan, witch and bounty hunter with the Inderland Runner Services, is one of the best at apprehending supernatural lawbreakers throughout Cincinnati, but when it comes to following the rules, she falls desperately short. Determined to buck the system, she quits and takes off on the run with an I.S. contract on her head and is reluctantly forced to team up with Ivy, Inderland's best runner . . . and a living vampire. But this witch is way out of her league, and to clear her name, Rachel must evade shape-changing assassins, outwit a powerful businessman/crime lord, and survive a vicious underground fight-to-the-death . . . not to mention her own roommate.
BOOK REVIEW:
I’ve been on an Urban Fantasy craze for a few weeks now, reading Richelle Mead, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Gena Showalter, Chloe Neill, Jeaniene Frost, to name some. I have added Kim Harrison to the mix.
To be really honest this first book in the series didn’t really start to grab me until well over half way through. I know there is a lot of setting up of characters, but sometimes I found myself wandering off thinking about other things going on in my life. Urban Fantasy shouldn’t do that to me, as a rule it doesn’t. I would have to shake myself and go back and reread where I started going flakey.
When Trent entered the book, my eyes became a bit more fused to the pages. There is something about Trent, for all the bad vibes Kim is giving off with Trent, I can’t help thinking he isn’t all that bad. Are we the reader being led to believe this?
Oh dear lord I hated the book cover of the paperback I was reading with vengeance, the girl is so wrong, black sunken eyes, looks too old and not really attractive. I cringed every time I looked at the cover. Sorry , just a personal opinion.
I love ‘Jenks’, he brought a smile to my face with his dialogue. Kim has a lot of fun with Jenks. ‘Jax’, Jenks’ son is a cute little fellow. I love how Jenks is such a family man and his reason for taking one of Rachel’s wishes, ha!
Ivy’s character I was a little confused with at first, then , light bulb went off and I got what was going on with Ivy and her girl thing she has going on. Ivy is quite a scary character when she wants to be.
Rachel Morgan is a character I want to know more about and get the right ‘feel’ of her as the girl that is going to take this series as far as it has. Kim certainly gives Rachel a beating when necessitates.
I don’t know yet how I am feeling about Nick. I don’t feel a Team for me yet. I want to be Team Trent for some reason, but his behavior is worrying me, yet I feel like I am being led up a garden path with him and the vibe given off...hmmm...books will tell.
I do like the old fellow Keasley, who lives across the road, I think of Morgan Freeman as his character. He is a pretty cool character. Bit of a mystery about him.
I know this series is going to get better. I have on order 3 more books from the library. I originally had them, but library only gave me book #1 last week and my time was up on all the others I had sitting around waiting for book #1 to get to me. So I have re-reserved them.
Kim is very good with detail and the visual picture you get in your mind of the people and places. I love that Rachel and Ivy live in a church, this is very cool. She does have you guessing what is going on and it will no doubt take more books to get the full gist of some of these characters as the story unfolds more.
I would put book #1 down to the book that sets characters up, no romance as such, which I did kind of miss, but, I am sure that will unfold more as the books progress. It’s the book that has everybody Inderland out to knock her off. She doesn’t really get to move 5 paces without somebody having spelled something to kill her.
I am looking forward to, ‘The Good , The Bad, and the Undead’, my curiosity is stirred. I want to know more about Trent Kalamack and the little bit creepy Jonathan.
Michelle
