{"id":327,"date":"2008-09-17T12:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T16:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=327"},"modified":"2008-09-17T12:34:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T16:34:00","slug":"greywalker-and-poltergeist-by-kat-richardson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=327","title":{"rendered":"Greywalker and Poltergeist by Kat Richardson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kat Richardson<\/a> has begun a book tour for the release of Underground <\/em>– the third book in the Greywalker series.\u00c2\u00a0 Blog posts about the tour is what brought her and the series to my attention.\u00c2\u00a0 I thought Underground<\/em> sounded interesting so I decided to read Greywalker<\/em> and Poltergeist<\/em> first so I wouldn’t be behind.\u00c2\u00a0 As it turns out, there wasn’t much of a worry there.<\/p>\n

Though many of the same characters appear in each book, it’s not necessary to read them all, though it’s certainly fun.\u00c2\u00a0 Richardson gives enough information about characters that pop up without making it feel like she’s doing an information dump; several sentences sprinkled throughout Poltergeist<\/em> does the job in keeping the reader in the loop.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

The series is about Harper Blaine, a private investigator in Seattle, Washington.\u00c2\u00a0 While working on a case, she gets into a bit of a scuffle which has some interesting results.\u00c2\u00a0 First, she dies for two minutes.\u00c2\u00a0 Second, she’s revived and has the ability to see things that most people can’t.\u00c2\u00a0 Third, with this new ability some of the truly stranger denizens of Seattle are drawn to her which makes for some interesting new cases.\u00c2\u00a0 The Grey is the place in between the physical world and the spiritual world.\u00c2\u00a0 Ghosts, monsters, and psychic energy forces reside there.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

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In Greywalker<\/em>, Blaine learns how to see\u00c2\u00a0the Grey better and walk in it while trying to minimize the physical risk to herself.\u00c2\u00a0 She’s a normal private investigator who has suddenly found herself working with and for the paranormal.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s not something she asked for and it’s not something she embraces more than she feels is necessary.\u00c2\u00a0 The characters are complete even if Richardson doesn’t give away all of their secrets.\u00c2\u00a0 This book sets up the series and features vampires.\u00c2\u00a0 I found the world building\u00c2\u00a0information about the Grey and the various users of magic interesting.<\/p>\n

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In Poltergeist<\/em>, we find out Blaine is still resistant to learning and practicing her\u00c2\u00a0powers. For example, she’ll look at a person’s aura to get more information about them but she’s not sure what the colors actually mean.\u00c2\u00a0 As the only known Greywalker there isn’t a Greywalking for Dummies<\/em> book to consult.\u00c2\u00a0 A professor at the local university has put together an experiment to see if a poltergeist can be created.\u00c2\u00a0 The results have recently gotten stronger and the professor thinks someone in the group is trying to manipulate the results.\u00c2\u00a0 He hires Blaine to investigate.\u00c2\u00a0 Before long one of the experiment participants ends up dead.\u00c2\u00a0 Was it the poltergeist or someone else who committed the murder?\u00c2\u00a0 Blaine tries to complete her case without getting caught in the middle of the police investigation of the murder.\u00c2\u00a0 The same cast of secondary characters appears in this book and a few new ones are introduced.<\/p>\n

When I get my TBR pile a little more under control, I’ll be purchasing Underground.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kat Richardson has begun a book tour for the release of Underground – the third book in the Greywalker series.\u00c2\u00a0 Blog posts about the tour is what brought her and the series to my attention.\u00c2\u00a0 I thought Underground sounded interesting so I decided to read Greywalker and Poltergeist first so I wouldn’t be behind.\u00c2\u00a0 As… Continue reading Greywalker and Poltergeist by Kat Richardson<\/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":[41,40,42],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","tag-greywalker","tag-kat-richardson","tag-poltergeist","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","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=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions\/346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}