Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #419892 in Books
• Published on: 2006-05-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

Customer Reviews

Heroines are fallible, too
It's really hard to know what to say about this book that won't spoiler the plot. It's edge-of-the-seat stuff: the tension builds with awful inevitability towards the ten-car pile-up of a denouement. You're riding in the eleventh car; do you crash and burn? Does Jo destroy the world (or at least Seattle) even as she is trying to learn to use her shamanic gift to heal it? I'm not going to tell you. Because I'm mean. So buy it.

Superb sequel!
The welcome return of Joanne Walker/ Siobhain Walkingstick!
The welcome return of Joanne Walker/ Siobhain Walkingstick!
This sequel takes place three months after the first book, apparently there was a mini story released in between that centres on an encounter with a banshee, but I haven't read that story and did find the references to that encounter confusing. That being said, I enjoyed this book as much as I did the first.
Some of Joanne's dabblings in the spirit world (as she fought to save the world) from the last book have caused repercussions for Seattle and now she has to learn how to embrace her powers to fix the problem that she has accidentally helped create.It doesn't get any easier for her as her guide Coyote has gone missing and strangers appear to offer to help her ..but can she trust them?
She is introduced to a coven of witches who also say they want to help her, but without Coyote's advice Joanne is reluctant to trust her own instincts, but she knows that she must embrace her role as Shaman if she is to prevent more lives from being lost as the body count around her begins to rise.
The supporting cast in these books are part of the pleasure of the series for me, the ever wonderful Gary, Det Billy Holliday and his wife Mel, Thor the mechanic, and not forgetting the exasperated Police Chief, Morrison. The interaction between all the characters is very natural, you really get a good feel for them. I'm pleased to see that there are more books in this series to come as I'd like to know more about Joanne's back story, and if she and Morrison will ever wake up to the feelings they seem to have for each other!