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Living with the Dead (Women of the Otherworld #9)
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Kelley Armstrong (Goodreads Author)
They’re smart, sexy, and supernatural. They’re the men and women of the Otherworld—a realm of witches, ghosts, and werewolves who live unseen among us. Only now a reckless killer has torn down the wall, trapping one very human woman in the supernatural cross fire.
Robyn Peltier moved to Los Angeles after her young husband’s sudden death, trying to put some distance betwee...more
Robyn Peltier moved to Los Angeles after her young husband’s sudden death, trying to put some distance betwee...more
Hardcover, 372 pages
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October 21st 2008
by Spectra
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I can't shrug off the feeling that Kelley Armstrong's Women of the Otherworld books are shifting more and more from urban fantasy to just plain mystery. But maybe I am just too used to her world and it seems too real to me? I don't know. Living with the Dead is another entertaining but ultimately forgettable addition to one of my favorite series. Let me sum it up.
The positive:
1) This book is just as page-turning as Armstrong's previous novels. Well-paced and never boring....more
The positive:
1) This book is just as page-turning as Armstrong's previous novels. Well-paced and never boring....more
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In this ninth book in Armstrong's Women of the Otherworld series the author brings us something different: the protagonist is a non-supernatural.
Robyn Peltier is a PR consultant with no special powers or abilities what so ever, well… except maybe attracting bad luck. She does know how to pick her friends though, as Hope Adams and Karl Marsten come to her rescue when Robyn's problems evolve from bad to worse.
This is another solid read by Kelley Armstrong. It read like a suspen...more
Robyn Peltier is a PR consultant with no special powers or abilities what so ever, well… except maybe attracting bad luck. She does know how to pick her friends though, as Hope Adams and Karl Marsten come to her rescue when Robyn's problems evolve from bad to worse.
This is another solid read by Kelley Armstrong. It read like a suspen...more
I really like this series overall and look forward to them, but this one was just a miss for me. The main character of the book really wasn't a supernatural at all. And the jumpy POV changes made the book feel choppy and lacked cohesion. I liked the Detective character that was introduced but overall, it just really wasn't the high point of the series for me. I'm kinda bored with Hope at this point and I'm ready to get back to more interesting characters in the series. Because Hope's power is so...more
Now how do I rate Kelley Armstrong's latest in her 'Women of the Otherworld' series? "Living with the Dead" isn't about just one woman. In a lot of ways it's not even about one couple, it's really about two men, two women, a ghost, and the question of what is love.
Robyn is a woman who recently lost her love, her soulmate, to a senseless and stupid crime. She spends her time now just going through the motions of living and keeping a scrapbook about good samaritans who are...more
Robyn is a woman who recently lost her love, her soulmate, to a senseless and stupid crime. She spends her time now just going through the motions of living and keeping a scrapbook about good samaritans who are...more
This was a nice, refreshing installment in the Women of the Otherworld series. I really liked the twists and turns in this story, and there was sure lots of that and lots of action. In my opinion a very well put together story into an elaborate world.
My only complaint was the fact that we didn't know most of the characters involved, so this could "almost" be a stand-alone story (you wouldn't need a lot of background story to understand it). I did come to like Robyn and Fin...more
My only complaint was the fact that we didn't know most of the characters involved, so this could "almost" be a stand-alone story (you wouldn't need a lot of background story to understand it). I did come to like Robyn and Fin...more
I am a huge Kelly Armstrong fan, and I have devoured all her 'Women of the Underworld' books right from the beginning. I have, however, been disappointed with the most recent books. Armstrong usually sticks to a first person point of view, which allows her strong characters to really grow and reveal themselves to you as you follow their journey. In her most recent publications of this series, she has played around with multiple view points, and it doesn't work. It felt stilted in 'No Humans Invo...more
I glanced through this book while at a bookstore and that is probably as much attention as it will get from me.
It is nothing against Armstrong as a writer because i think she created this amazing world and characters, but Elena and Paige have been the only characters that i actually care about as more than just extras (like Jamie, Eve (whose book i have no intention of reading) and Hope). Armstrong's next book will be an Elena book and so I am hopeful that my love of her books will be rei...more
It is nothing against Armstrong as a writer because i think she created this amazing world and characters, but Elena and Paige have been the only characters that i actually care about as more than just extras (like Jamie, Eve (whose book i have no intention of reading) and Hope). Armstrong's next book will be an Elena book and so I am hopeful that my love of her books will be rei...more
The beginning of the book was great, but then the characters basically chased each other around for a two hundred pages. There were too many viewpoint characters and perspective shifts, and Hope is probably my least favorite Armstrong heroine. I hope this series picks back up, this is the second one in a row that I've been a bit disappointed in.
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Being accused of murdering your new boss isn’t the best way to get ahead in business. Innocent but unable to prove it, Robyn Peltier has no idea what to do. When it seems the murderer thinks she knows something and is after her too, she calls on best friend Hope Adams for help. Along with Hope comes her boyfriend Karl, who Robyn finds a little creepy. When it starts looking like the murder was supernatural in origin, Hope tries to help but keep Robyn unaware of the other side of her life. ...more
This didn't feel like an Otherworld book. At all. It was deeply disturbing and dark. It featured some characters we know: primarily Hope and Karl, but unlike any of the previous books, this was written in the third person and the real main character was a regular human we've never met before.
It's been six months since Robyn's husband Damon died. Since then, she's moved to LA to start a new life for herself. She's a PR rep for a celebutante, but she's really just going through the mot...more
It's been six months since Robyn's husband Damon died. Since then, she's moved to LA to start a new life for herself. She's a PR rep for a celebutante, but she's really just going through the mot...more
Great read. I don't think that you necessarily need to have read the rest of the Otherwold books to jump into this one and be engaged by it and that's the beauty of Robyn being a main character for those who don't know much or anything about the supernatural world in Armstrong's books. Having multiple protagonists works so well, I got a lot of the insider jokes from Hope and Karl but had I known nothing about any of it Finn and Robyn would have given me that outsiders view and learning curve tha...more
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This was definitely the weakest of her books so far. There were too many points of view, and I really disliked the antagonists' perspective. I didn't feel it really added much of anything. It simply filled me with disgust, because there was absolutely nothing redeemable about Adele, and she was just completely abhorrent.
Robyn was okay, but not that great for a character either. I started out okay with her, but I had to write her off as stupid in the beginning, when Portia was murdered....more
Robyn was okay, but not that great for a character either. I started out okay with her, but I had to write her off as stupid in the beginning, when Portia was murdered....more
I couldn't wait to get my mitts on this book, having been aching with anticipation to see what some of my favorite characters were up to. Turns out, the anticipation was a little bit better than the book. This latest entry into the WotU series focuses around not just one, but at least four other people. There's not a lot of rhyme or reason to when shifts occur or even why it's necessary for so many people to be narrators. (My guess is that it was just easier for Armstrong to write as the villain...more
...of the otherworld... except in this book a human woman is the main focus...
We meet Robyn Peltier as she is adding to her scrapbook of senseless deaths... the first article being about her husband who was shot by a woman who misunderstood his motives when he stopped to help her with her flat tire. In her attempt to move on, and escape her memories, she moves to LA to be PR for Portia - a celebutante wannabe.
Portia inadvertantly takes a picture of Adele (a clairvoyant ...more
We meet Robyn Peltier as she is adding to her scrapbook of senseless deaths... the first article being about her husband who was shot by a woman who misunderstood his motives when he stopped to help her with her flat tire. In her attempt to move on, and escape her memories, she moves to LA to be PR for Portia - a celebutante wannabe.
Portia inadvertantly takes a picture of Adele (a clairvoyant ...more
Pleasant enough visit to Armstrong's Otherworld
Living with the Dead is not quite what I expected coming on the heels of Personal Demon (Women of the Otherworld, Book 8), which left Lucas in a quandry that I had thought would lead to some interesting upheaval in the overall story arc of the series. Instead Lucas is a minor off-screen character here and we continue on with half choas demon Hope and her werewolf mate Karl. But Living with the dead is more multithre...more
Living with the Dead is not quite what I expected coming on the heels of Personal Demon (Women of the Otherworld, Book 8), which left Lucas in a quandry that I had thought would lead to some interesting upheaval in the overall story arc of the series. Instead Lucas is a minor off-screen character here and we continue on with half choas demon Hope and her werewolf mate Karl. But Living with the dead is more multithre...more
When recently widowed PR rep Robyn is framed for murder she finds herself surrounded by forces both supernatural and mundane, some trying to protect and others to harm her. Defended by a werewolf and half-demon, pursued by a necromancer police detective and a clairvoyant sociopath she's not sure who to trust or where to turn, not only to prove her innocence but save her life.
I am a big fan of the "Women of the Otherworld" series, especially the books about witches and were...more
I am a big fan of the "Women of the Otherworld" series, especially the books about witches and were...more
Living with the dead by Kelley Armstrong:
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So...this book was a little all over the place for me.
I LOVE Hope and Karl; They're two of my favorite characters in the series, coming in second to Elena and Clay. However, there a few characters I didn't like in this book, one being Adele.
First of all, Adele is supposed to be around 20 years old in the book. However, she comes across as a woman in her late forties, early fifties. Thi...more
DOES contain spoilers!
So...this book was a little all over the place for me.
I LOVE Hope and Karl; They're two of my favorite characters in the series, coming in second to Elena and Clay. However, there a few characters I didn't like in this book, one being Adele.
First of all, Adele is supposed to be around 20 years old in the book. However, she comes across as a woman in her late forties, early fifties. Thi...more
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Really didn't love this one. A _lot_ of characters and POVs, but I could deal with that. What was frustrating was all the misinformation and mistaken assumptions all the characters had, which drew this out longer than necessary, almost into a bad comedy of errors. While I recognize that books can sometimes make character's thinking too simplistic so that they seem to magically make the right assumptions, this was too far the other way, and I found myself just annoyed that no one would take a ...more
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Hope's old friend Robyn recently lost her husband and is lost to grief. Hope is a half-chaos demon who works for the tabloids and the supernatural Council, but she drops everything to go stay with Robyn for a while. It turns out Robyn needs her help more than she ever expected--because Robyn's starlet client has just been murdered, and Robyn is the number one suspect. It's up to Hope, her werewolf boyfriend Karl, and a cop who can see ghosts to find the truth.
One annoying thing ...more
One annoying thing ...more
Kelley Armstrong é uma autora que nunca desilude sejam quais forem as personagens principais do livro em questão.
Neste livro somos apresentados a novas personagens bem como a outras que já conhecemos de livros anteriores.
Parece-me que o título pode ser aplicado a uma das novas personagens, o detetive John Findley _ ou como ele nos informa Finn, desde a primeira classe. Ora Finn é diferente. E isto porque na sua familia, as pessoas conseguem ver fantasmas. No entanto Finn não faz part...more
Neste livro somos apresentados a novas personagens bem como a outras que já conhecemos de livros anteriores.
Parece-me que o título pode ser aplicado a uma das novas personagens, o detetive John Findley _ ou como ele nos informa Finn, desde a primeira classe. Ora Finn é diferente. E isto porque na sua familia, as pessoas conseguem ver fantasmas. No entanto Finn não faz part...more
I snatch up Kelley Armstrong's books in Women of the Otherworld series as soon as they come out. I'm always confident I'm going to have an engrossing and entertaining read, and this book is no exception.
It's a departure from the other novels. Almost all the other books are written from a female first person point of view: though each book tends to have different narrators: a werewolf, a witch, an angel, a necromancer, a half-demon. This book is written in third person though and the...more
It's a departure from the other novels. Almost all the other books are written from a female first person point of view: though each book tends to have different narrators: a werewolf, a witch, an angel, a necromancer, a half-demon. This book is written in third person though and the...more
Many of the reviews I read on this book seem to have issues with one of the protagonists not being a supernatural. Personally, I liked Armstrong’s choice to use a human character as a central figure. In a world where people are constantly trying to hide who they are, it’s inevitable that someone outside that secret will stumble upon it. And while the supernaturals normally take care of these people, that’s not always the most reasonable solution. There’s no reason to kill Robyn in this book, exc...more
I love Kelley Armstrong's Women of the Otherworld series, and Living with the Dead is no exception. I don't recall if any of the other WotO books have a non-supe main character, but Robyn is out-and-out just plain human. Not only is she human, she doesn't have a clue that there are paranormals living amongst them--not even Hope, her best friend; nor Finn, the detective investigating Portia's murder.
Hope has been featured in other WotO books, so she's not a new character. She now has t...more
Hope has been featured in other WotO books, so she's not a new character. She now has t...more
Did you ever get the feeling when you read a book that you have read it before? All the way through this book I felt that way. Now it was either because I really did read this before and totally forgot it or that I have read so many of the books in this series that they are beginning to blur together. Whatever the case, I still enjoyed it. Kelley Armstrong is still delivering strong narratives and interesting characters with her books. In this one Hope returns along with Karl Marsten, to he...more
I discovered Kelly Armstrong a couple of years ago when I needed a book to read and stopped at Walgreens Drug store, not my favorite bookseller. Since then I've read several of her books. They are always entertaining. It isn't the most challenging plotting to follow but a lot of the time I don't want to have a heavy plot to read and understand. Armstrong is one of my 'go to' authors when I want to be drawn into an alternate reality.
In this story the everyday world life of two cha...more
In this story the everyday world life of two cha...more
This audio book was exausting. I am so glad to be done with it. I just did not feel the love for this story or Armstrong's writing.
There were some aspects I did enjoy -- the changing perspective, multiple supernatural beings, and the action. All worth 3 stars for me.
I didn't like the fact that the beings conveniently went straight to stupid when presented with a clue or danger. How the hell does a werewolf enter his own hotel room and not notice the fresh scent of ...more
There were some aspects I did enjoy -- the changing perspective, multiple supernatural beings, and the action. All worth 3 stars for me.
I didn't like the fact that the beings conveniently went straight to stupid when presented with a clue or danger. How the hell does a werewolf enter his own hotel room and not notice the fresh scent of ...more
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“He leaned her back against the tub, setting her head on the edge, then washed her shoulders.
"I know I left you once."
She opened her mouth, wanting to say it didn't matter, it was forgotten. But it wasn't.
"I know I hurt you."
Again, she wanted to argue. But she couldn't.
"I know I said I won't leave you again, but I also know that's not enough, and that the only way you're going to trust that I won't leave is if I don't".
He slid the cloth over her arms.
"If this ends, Hope, it won't be me that ends it. I think you know that.”
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"I know I left you once."
She opened her mouth, wanting to say it didn't matter, it was forgotten. But it wasn't.
"I know I hurt you."
Again, she wanted to argue. But she couldn't.
"I know I said I won't leave you again, but I also know that's not enough, and that the only way you're going to trust that I won't leave is if I don't".
He slid the cloth over her arms.
"If this ends, Hope, it won't be me that ends it. I think you know that.”
“What am I? Let's just say I won't fetch a stick for you. I won't beg for treats. And, no matter how nicely you ask, I will not roll over and play dead.”
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