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This Witch for Hire
(The Hollows #1-2)
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A new omnibus with two of Kim Harrison's bestselling The Hollows series!
Includes:
* Dead Witch Walking
* The Good, the Bad, and the Undead
Bounty hunter and witch Rachel Morgan calls the Hollows, the menacing, magical section of Cincinnati, her home - as do all the supernatural beings spawned from the Angel Virus, the great plague that killed much of humanity....
Includes:
* Dead Witch Walking
* The Good, the Bad, and the Undead
Bounty hunter and witch Rachel Morgan calls the Hollows, the menacing, magical section of Cincinnati, her home - as do all the supernatural beings spawned from the Angel Virus, the great plague that killed much of humanity....
Hardcover, 1st Edition, 707 pages
Published
2006
by Science Fiction Book Club
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I stumbled upon the Rachel Morgan series while waiting for the next release of the Sookie Stackhouse books. I was hooked, lined, and sunk. However, it helped that she had quite a few of her series already published, so I wasn't cursed with the waiting for the next book syndrome. It was a perfect timing sort of event being that I was stuck in North Carolina waiting out a storm that had flooded my home. The 2 week wait turned in to a few months wait, and thankfully, Ms. Morgan decided to entertain
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THIS IS A GREAT SERIES! It has become my all time favorite.
KIM HARRISON(Dawn Cook) is the best, you will be hooked from book 1, page 1.
SHE WILL ALWAYS LEAVE YOU WANTING MORE...AND WAITING FOR THE NEXT IN THE SERIES!
You will not be disappointed! K.H.'s characters come alive, you will laugh and cry with them, grow tremendously from book #1. I love the world that K.H. has created. Bio-engineered tomatoes, witches, vampires, pixies, faeries, trolls, wolves...
The first book runs kinda slow in the be ...more
KIM HARRISON(Dawn Cook) is the best, you will be hooked from book 1, page 1.
SHE WILL ALWAYS LEAVE YOU WANTING MORE...AND WAITING FOR THE NEXT IN THE SERIES!
You will not be disappointed! K.H.'s characters come alive, you will laugh and cry with them, grow tremendously from book #1. I love the world that K.H. has created. Bio-engineered tomatoes, witches, vampires, pixies, faeries, trolls, wolves...
The first book runs kinda slow in the be ...more
If you are reading Kim Harrison, you are reading the best. I have tried every trick in the book to make each new Hollows book last longer with no luck. I have re-read the series about 10 times in the last year and I still can't put them down. Everytime I re-read them I get more out of them.
So I just completed my re-read of this. And I can honestly say that I enjoyed actually reading this instead of listening to it as I did the first time. I remembered much of what I had forgotten and remembered exactly why I became so invested in this series and the characters to begin with. It takes a lot for me to stick with a series, and even more for me to become so invested in the outcomes for all of the characters involved. This book (and series as a whole) reminds me of why I love reading s
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Re-read these for the first time since I originally read them back in 2007 and I ended up actually skipping book one because it was so much boring build-up/character introduction. Book two is much better but still nothing compared to how good the books get later in the series BUT OMG THE TRENT/RACHEL FEELS! I forgot how early they started. It's going to be a rough series read waiting to find out what happens to my ship. 11 more books to go.
So funny! what an original idea, tomatoes who knew?
Dec 27, 2008
Anna
marked it as to-read
I NEED this book!!!!
Turns out I did not interpret the blurb correctly. This book is two novels, Dead Witch Walking, and The Good the Bad and the Undead. Both of which I'd already read, dammit. Back to the library
An enjoyable book. It falls into a category that I like to read. Will finish this series and others by this Authoress. Need I say more. ? ? ? 😎
This book had some good parts. I've read Kim Harrison before. Something about her writing style just doesn't thrill me. I don't know what it is. Good, but not great.
DEAD WITCH WALKING
Dead Witch Walking introduces us to the different, but not so different world that is The Hollows. Half of the human population has been wiped out due to a genetically altered tomato epidemic (known as The Turn), and the Inderlander species--comprised of witches, vampires, werewolves, pixies, fairies, demons, and more--come out of hiding to help rebuild society.
This book is the first person perspective of one of those species, Rachel Morgan. Not surprisingly based on the title ...more
Dead Witch Walking introduces us to the different, but not so different world that is The Hollows. Half of the human population has been wiped out due to a genetically altered tomato epidemic (known as The Turn), and the Inderlander species--comprised of witches, vampires, werewolves, pixies, fairies, demons, and more--come out of hiding to help rebuild society.
This book is the first person perspective of one of those species, Rachel Morgan. Not surprisingly based on the title ...more
Is this book perfect? Not sure. I want to say that I loved it, but I think I more enjoyed it than loved it. See, this isn't my usual genre. It has all the makings of it, with the supernatural, the world building, the excellent characters, the action, and everything. But something just felt like it wasn't for me at the same time. I've been finished with this book for a while, trying to think of some way to describe it. I enjoyed the first book, i enjoyed the second book, but looking back on it...
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Boring, boring, and not very clear. The writing is bland and Rachel Morgan fails as a character to match up with the genre counter-part Harry Dresden. The writing is a pale comparison and not very captivating. The world of Morgan could have used a proper explanation on why the reader should accept law and order institutions having slave contracts and murder-for-hire contracts as standard. Either the law follows the law or it's just a gang with pretty bling.
Vampires in this world are a mess, but ...more
Vampires in this world are a mess, but ...more
I really have enjoyed this book and the "post-Turn" world that Kim Harrison has created. In the first book Dead Witch Walking, Earth Witch, Rachel Morgan is trying to quit the I.S. (Inderland Security) where she is employed as a "runner". The I.S. put a contract out on her life when she takes her partner Ivy, a vampire and her pixy back-up Jenks with her as she tries to start her own investigation firm. The second book The good the bad and the Undead is the further adventures of the group as the
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Lots of potential but falls flat.
I've heard the series continues to become better written and more interesting, however the protagonist is extremely aggravating. There are aspects of her personality which, while they may be intentional, leave her with little to no relatability (authority issues) and to which she will cling in spite of even very *basic* logic.
Ultimately the best praise I could give this series and its main character is "like Dresden, but dumber"
I've heard the series continues to become better written and more interesting, however the protagonist is extremely aggravating. There are aspects of her personality which, while they may be intentional, leave her with little to no relatability (authority issues) and to which she will cling in spite of even very *basic* logic.
Ultimately the best praise I could give this series and its main character is "like Dresden, but dumber"
Oct 16, 2015
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THE ONLY URBAN FANTASY I'VE LIKED WAS THE FIRST COUPLE OF KIM HARRISON BOOKS AND THE TOBY DAYE BOOKS BY SEANAN MCGUIRE. SOMETIMES I WORRY I'M LETTING AN ENTIRE GENRE PAST ME BY BECAUSE MOST OF IT IS SUCH SHIT, BUT 99% OF EVERYTHING I'VE PICKED UP HAS BEEN CRAP.
I COULDN'T FINISH THE FIRST BOOK OF EITHER OF THOSE, BUT THERE ARE A FEW SERIES I RLY ENJOY.
I COULDN'T FINISH THE FIRST BOOK OF EITHER OF THOSE, BUT THERE ARE A FEW SERIES I RLY ENJOY.
includes Dead Witch Walking read 5-20-2004
and
The Good, the Bad, and the Undead read 1-31-2005
and
The Good, the Bad, and the Undead read 1-31-2005
If you like stories about witches, vampires, pixies, werewolves, and all the action that goes with catching them, you will love this set. If you are looking for sex or romance, you will be disappointed most of the time. That being said, I really enjoyed this 2 for 1 book, and look forward to reading more about Rachel Morgan and her misadventures.
Picked these up on a whim from SFBC since I liked the genre. Harrison has been added to my list of favorite authors. I think she did an excellent job of developing her characters throughout the first two books while weaving a great storyline. I have the next 4 in the series awaiting my attention now.
Aug 10, 2011
Mary
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I was really upset that I wasn't liking this book. It sounded like it would be a fun read and there are 7 books so I could enjoy a nice series this summer. But it was a complete disappointment. :-( The main character wasn't very consistent and I just could not get into it!
Interesting science fiction tale of witches, vampires, pixies, elves, and other supernatural beings co-existing with humans in Cincinnati after a deadly GMO organisim kills off most of the human population. Entertaining, but not for everyone.
This is such a great series. Kim Harrison pulls you in. It is easy to relate to rachel morgan and her friends as they try to maneuver around the bureaucracy of this futuristic world. You are rooting for them the whole way through. They are the underdog, but you just want them to succeed.
Stephanie Plum meet Rachel Mariana Morgan. Same concept just throw in some witches, vampires and werewolves. I thought the first book was slow. The second book was better. I have high hopes for volume three.
I am enjoying this more as I getting deeper into Rachel Morgan's world. She is too impulsive but still, a fun character. Also the same phrases used too much ("she scared the crap out of me" is getting old) Really a 4.5.
Apr 14, 2008
Brett
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Fantasy
This author is one of my favorites. Colorful story line
Amazing book!!!! I'm hooked and have now borrowed the whole series from my sister-in-law.
** I READ THIS BOOK IN 2009 AND LOVED IT. I WILL READ IT YET AGAIN WITH MY MATURE MIND. REVIEW TO COME SOON
Love this book which is the first and second of The Hollows series. Based in Cincinnati, Oh and Newport, Ky.
This was a great read, I am now looking forward to book 2. What could be better vampires, witches and Pixies and they live in an old church.
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Kim Harrison is best known as the author of the New York Times #1 best selling Hollows series, but she has written more than urban fantasy and has published over two-dozen books spanning the gamut from young adult, thriller, several anthologies, and has scripted two original graphic novels. She has also published traditional fantasy under the name Dawn Cook. Kim is currently working on a new Hollo
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