false <![CDATA[Urban Shaman (Walker Papers, #1)]]> 297929 5 Joanne Walker has three days to learn to use her shamanic powers and save the world from the unleashed Wild Hunt. No worries. No pressure. Never mind the lack of sleep, the perplexing new talent for healing from fatal wounds, or the cryptic, talking coyote who appears in her dreams. And if all that's not bad enough, in the three years Joanne's been a cop, she's never seen a dead body -- but she's just come across her second in three days. It's been a bitch of a week. And it isn't over yet. 289053 book 1 6 2005 Urban Shaman (Walker Papers, #1) total:739|5:187|4:300|3:172|2:58|1:22| 739 2789 1152 115 3 4 false false Sun Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 03 15:41:54 -0800 2007 Sun Feb 24 07:34:15 -0800 2008
The genre is a common one for Luna. Strong female protagonist, modern fantasy/slipstream with the supernatural element hidden from most peopl...more...]]> 2 4 false false Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sat Aug 11 10:01:30 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 11 10:20:35 -0700 2007
There wasn't a single anthropomorphic cat-person. A+++

The characters were well written, but often rendered a bit simplistically. I quickly gained a sense...more...]]> 5 6 false false Sat Mar 21 06:20:10 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 06:37:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 3 false false Sun Feb 22 14:18:58 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 18:33:35 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 2 true false Fri Jan 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jun 26 16:24:24 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 29 06:11:49 -0700 2009 1 4 1 false true Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 05 12:54:56 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 29 00:39:37 -0800 2008
I liked Jo, she was the main heroine after all, but w...more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Jun 18 15:03:19 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 21 07:19:59 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Oct 23 15:52:44 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 16:24:59 -0700 2009 A real gem of a find! I adored this book, the heroine Joanne Walker aka Siobhain Walkingstick isn't all dainty and girly, she's extremely tall, slightly clumsy and a mechanic in the Police Station garage! She is half Native American Indian and half Irish, rais...more...]]> 2 2 false false Mon Sep 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 21:13:18 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 11:40:46 -0700 2009
The good:
The supporting characters -
- Gary the taxi driver and Jo’s sidekick. My only problem with him was his age, I was unsure as to whether he would really be fit enough to keep up with Jo without stroking out.
- Morr...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Sep 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 08:50:43 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 15:47:57 -0700 2009
Things I thought were good:
-an interesting mix of Indian and Fairy mythologies-made for a unique storyline

-some pretty funn...more...]]> 4 2 false false Mon Jun 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 09 12:49:18 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 09 12:54:37 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Sep 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 12:57:09 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 06:29:07 -0700 2009
Unlike most of the other urban fantasy genre currently available this book has no vampires or werewolves. Nor, unlike most of the kick-ass-heroine urban fantasy genre is there any romance (or sex). In fact, I found the fusion of Cherokee and Irish mythology both refre...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Oct 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 07:03:07 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 08:42:27 -0700 2009 1
Anyway, at first I was kinda meh about it. ...more...]]> 1 2 false false Wed May 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 29 08:39:05 -0700 2008 Thu May 29 08:44:07 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 11 08:26:41 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 08:34:12 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 01 15:56:11 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 01 15:56:56 -0700 2007
And it doesn't get much better than shamanism and Celtic gods, for me. =)

I'm excited to ge...more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 08:21:16 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 10:11:41 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 14:11:22 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 14:17:08 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Feb 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 20:42:41 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 20:45:55 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sat Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 19 06:23:20 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 20:06:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=297929