Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3094 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-02
• Binding: Paperback
• 432 pages

Synopsis
This is the first book in a new urban fantasy-thriller series with the perfect amount of wry humour and a sassy female lead, which will delight all fans of thrillers and fantasy alike. Rachel Morgan is a white witch and runner working for Inderland Security, in an alternate world where a bioengineered virus wiped out a great deal of the world's human population - exposing the existence of the supernatural communities that had long lived alongside humanity. For the last five years Rachel has been tracking down law-breaking Inderlanders in modern-day Cincinnati, but now she wants to leave and start her own agency. Her only problem is that no one quits the I.S. Marked for death, Rachel will have to fend off fairy assassins and homicidal weres armed with an assortment of nasty curses. She's a dead witch walking unless she can appease her former employers by exposing the city's most prominent citizen as a drug lord. But, making an enemy of the ambiguous Trent Kalamack is just as deadly as leaving the I.S.

About the Author
The only girl in a large family of boys, former tomboy Kim Harrison invented the first Brigadier General Barbie in self-defence. She shoots a very bad game of pool and rolls a very good game of dice. When not at her keyboard, she enjoys lounging on the couch with a bowl of popcorn watching action movies with The-Guy-In-The-Leather-Jacket. She plays her Ashiko drum when no one is listening, and is hard to find when the moon is new.

Customer Reviews

Late to the party
Given the book is four years old, I'm rather late to this particular party. The author was recommended by someone who shares my love of the Sooky Stackhouse stories (Charlaine Harris) so I knew what to expect - more or less. In fact, this book is hard work. The story itself is well reviewed elsewhere but, for me, the pace slowed with so many pages of detail (for example, dealing with Rachel's injuries after a tussle with a demon) that I decided to skip a few pages at other points in the book.

The premise is good; the fantasy world created by the author leaves several doors open for the following books and I shall be buying number 2 in the hope that a solid base has been built from which to develop these characters - and my understanding of who can do what to whom and why!

Brilliant
This book has everything sexy vamps funny pixes and stubborn witches. really good defo worth a read

A Wicked Bit of Fun
I picked this out whilst making a last minute book choice for the holiday read, mainly cause of the pretty yellow colour, and was pleasently surprised. Whilst not a future classic in any shape or form, it's a peppy, compellingly descriptive book.
Of course while there are the occasional shaky moments within the plot, Harrison manages to conjure up strong, likeable characters (my favourite being the pixie) within a provokatively imaginative, alternative world, that is reminiscent of the Buffyverse, without being too samey.

While it is likely to be slipped into the guilty pleasures section of my bookcase, it's direct, amusing prose makes it a very enjoyable and captivating read, and I can't wait to read more.