{"id":1640,"date":"2009-07-14T05:31:32","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T09:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=1640"},"modified":"2009-07-10T19:50:56","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T23:50:56","slug":"dead-witch-walking-by-kim-harrison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=1640","title":{"rendered":"Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Over the years I’ve heard Kim Harrison’s name and Amazon keeps trying to recommend her Hollows Series to me.\u00c2\u00a0 The titles are all clever takes on movie titles (mostly starring Clint Eastwood).\u00c2\u00a0 It wasn’t until Lisa Damian’s interview with Kim Harrison<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0that I decided I would give the series a try.\u00c2\u00a0 She seemed like such a nice person, how could I possibly ignore her novels any longer?<\/p>\n

Months later I found myself reading Dead Witch Walking<\/em>, the first in the series.\u00c2\u00a0 In an alternate history, bioengineering created a plague that killed a lot humans.\u00c2\u00a0 This allowed the supernatural inhabitants (Witches, Pixies, Vampires, Weres, etc.) known as Inderlanders to come out of hiding since they were no longer outnumbered.\u00c2\u00a0 Humans moved closer to the cities.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

This series features Rachel Morgan, a witch.\u00c2\u00a0 In Dead Witch Walking<\/em>, she’s an Inderland Security Runner who takes advantage of capturing a leprechan for tax evasion.\u00c2\u00a0 Working for the I.S. isn’t what Rachel thought it would be and she’s looking for a way out.\u00c2\u00a0 The leprechaun is her opportunity.\u00c2\u00a0 Before\u00c2\u00a0Rachel knows it, her former I.S. partner, Ivy Tamwood, and her I.S. backup, Jenks, use up the remaining wishes to leave the I.S. too.\u00c2\u00a0 Ivy is one of the best I.S. Runners and their former boss puts a price on Rachel’s head.\u00c2\u00a0 He knows she has something to do with Ivy’s resignation.\u00c2\u00a0 Partnered with a living vampire and a pixie, Rachel must evade the bounty hunters while trying to find a way to get the contract cancelled.<\/p>\n

The magic used by witches is interesting.\u00c2\u00a0 There is earth magic and ley magic.\u00c2\u00a0 All magic requires a sacrifice of some kind; even using an amulet requires blood droplets to activate it.\u00c2\u00a0 White earth witches use plants while dark earth witches use body parts.\u00c2\u00a0 Ley line witches use raw life force power sources.\u00c2\u00a0 (The only other series I’ve come across that uses ley lines is Kat Richardson’s Greywalker<\/em>series.)\u00c2\u00a0 The sacrifice in using ley lines is of souls.\u00c2\u00a0 Rachel is a white earth witch but she’s not afraid to cross the line into the greyish\/black area of magic if she thinks it’s for a good cause.<\/p>\n

Some rather unexpected things happen along the way, including Rachel figuring out she’s the leader of the trio.\u00c2\u00a0 They form their own runner service named Vampiric Charms which is a clever name before knowing whether or not their services will be needed.\u00c2\u00a0 Some of the backstory and world building is a bit repetitive in the beginning but it was worth reading until the end.\u00c2\u00a0 I have the next book in the series on my TBR pile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the years I’ve heard Kim Harrison’s name and Amazon keeps trying to recommend her Hollows Series to me.\u00c2\u00a0 The titles are all clever takes on movie titles (mostly starring Clint Eastwood).\u00c2\u00a0 It wasn’t until Lisa Damian’s interview with Kim Harrison\u00c2\u00a0that I decided I would give the series a try.\u00c2\u00a0 She seemed like such a… Continue reading Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[24,164,41,40,165,172],"class_list":["post-1640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","tag-book","tag-dead-witch-walking","tag-greywalker","tag-kat-richardson","tag-kim-harrison","tag-rachel-morgan","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1640"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1732,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions\/1732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}