Dead Witch Walking (The Hollows, #1) in Building a SciFi/Fantasy Library

Mar 23, 2013 David Monroe rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery, alt-history, urban-paranormal, dystopia, detective, glbt, noir-phantasmagoria

I'm not sure why it took me so long to read this series. I guess I thought it was more a hardcore romance than it was. My mistake and loss for gender-stereotyping. It's no Dresden Files, but then again, neither was the first book in the Dresden Files. I've already borrowed the next book from my library.

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Mar 02, 2010 Emily Diehl rated it liked it

Pretty good start for Kim Harrison.
I think the best part of this book for me was the main character, Rachel Morgan actually screws up, a lot!

She is reckless in her tactics in her line of work and gets caught a lot. It was a change of pace for me to see the female lead not kicking some major butt right away. Morgan was quite annoying at first because she seemed like the character in a scary movie who always does the wrong thing. While I begged for her to take anyone's advice, to actually just RU ...more

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Dec 21, 2008 Catherine rated it liked it

Entertaining mind candy.

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Apr 19, 2008 Maurean rated it liked it

This was a really fun read. I'm fairly new to this 'fae/human sharing one world', having started with Charlaine Harris, and more recently Kelley Armstrong, so thanks to Quest-Kravens generousity I can now add Kim Harrison to the list

(2008: I have still yet to read any more books in this series, but my mother, ,on the other hand, has read them all, and absolutely loves the series...I dunno, I just haven't felt the urge to continue...) ...more

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