Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #37516 in Books
• Published on: 2007-05-03
• Binding: Hardcover
• 342 pages

Synopsis
No Humans Involved stars necromancer Jaime Vegas. She's on a television shoot in Brentwood, Los Angeles when weird things start to happen. Invisible hands brush her arms, she sees movements out of the corner of her eye, unintelligible fragments of words are whispered in her ear. Jaime's used to seeing the dead and hearing them clearly. But now, for the first time in her life, she knows what humans mean when they say they're being haunted. Jaime is determined to get to the bottom of this, but she doesn't realize how low her investigation will take her, or what human-based horror she will uncover. As she delves through the dark underside of Los Angeles she'll need as much Otherworld help as she can get to survive unscathed. But Jeremy, the alpha-werewolf is there by her side to offer his protection. And maybe more than that!

Customer Reviews

Better than I expected - Jaime is a fab central character!
Although I've enjoyed most of Kelley Armstrong's 'Women of the Otherworld' series, I have to say that the change of central character doesn't always work out great - for example, after the fast paced and fiesty novels featuring the werewolf Elena, I found Paige, a witch, to be a bit of an anti climax for the 3rd and 4th novels.

However, in this the 7th book, she is properly back on form with Jaime, the TV medium (a Necromancer). The book is a fast paced page-turner, with a good plot and an exciting romantic backstory. Jaime is probably the character I have been able to relate to most, and I found Jeremy, her werewolf love interest, a very sexy sideline (although at 58, he is practically old enough to be my Grandad, which is a bit weird but it works!).

Great book, great characters, please can we see more of Jaime in the future?

Necromany versus Werewolves versus Witches versus...
I love the women of the otherworld series, and i liked this book.

We meet Jaime Vegas again, a necromancer in Hollywood (mostly) pretending to be a medium, trying to get her own TV show, chasing a sort of stardom. She's hired, with two other mediums, to contact the ghost of Marilyn Monroe and the three (plus crew) are put up in a big house. Whilst in the garden she feels the spirits trying to contact her, but is confused why she can't see or speak with them. Sensing the spirits are children and as a new member of the council she wants to investigate. And so the story goes on from there. She is some time into developing a relationship with Jeremy (werewolf pack leader from Bitten etc) whilst trying to appear like a star on camera and fighting backstabbingness (word?) and speaking to real ghosts in hollywood (I don't recognise the names, it's not cheesy).

Had i have read this as a stand alone book i might have given it 5 stars, but compared to the others in the series (in which i love the werewolf pack above all else) i had to give it 4 stars. But it's a good book, one to keep.

What's lurking in the haunted house?
This book is another episode in Kelley Armstrong's acclaimed "Women of the Otherworld Series" and features Jaime Vegas, a necromancer TV star whose stardom might be waning as she approaches middle age. When given the chance for a shot at a new TV pilot staying in a house with two other spiritualists and trying to find out what happened to the house's former owner, Jaime takes the opportunity, not realising that more has gone on in the house than anyone yet knows.

Jaime finds that there are more spirits present than the other spiritualists realise - spirits that can't seem to speak directly to Jaime, as others can, but who let her know they are there. She decides it's important to find out who they are and enlists Jeremy, Alpha of the wolf pack and someone she's interested in, to help her. Jaime also seems to go off half-cocked on her own much of the time and has to be rescued by various spirits as well as witches and other people. But she and Jeremy begin to uncover a very sinister series of events which involve child sacrifice and people discovering powers that they really shouldn't have.

Many characters in Armstrong's previous novels appear in this one, including Hope Adams who is the heroine of the next novel, "Personal Demon". However it isn't necessary to have read the others in the series to follow events in this book. Fans of Armstrong will no doubt enjoy the book but this reader felt that at times it was rather aimless, the background story of the TV show seemed incompletely drawn and the whole plot wasn't as tight as the author can write. It was, however, a good read and had an interesting angle on the challenges for an older woman who seeks to find a new place in the world as her career is ending.

Originally published for Curled Up With A Good Book © 2008 Helen Hancox