Title: Dead Witch Walking
Author: Kim Harrison
Publisher:Voyager
Rating: 2/5
Synopsis (from waterstones.com):
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.
Review:
I hadn't been intending to start another supernatural series of books, as I'm already engrossed in far too many, but I was out for the day and close to finishing the book I had with me, and picked this one up from a charity shop to tide me over until I got home.
Although it is set in the US, there was something about it that made it seem more global than the other series of books I've been reading. I think perhaps it's because the Sookie Stackhouse and Anita Blake series are both set in southern states, whereas Harrison has set her book in a big city, Cincinnati, and it gave it a more urban and cosmopolitan feel, which I liked a lot.
However, on the whole, I though the story itself wasn't anything out of the ordinary in this genre and the characters didn't really grab me.
One thing that probably also put me off was the typeface and the size of the book. I can't quite put my finger on why, but I found it difficult to read, and the book was slightly smaller but thick, which I found made if hard to hold comfortably, and I think this had an adverse affect on my enjoyment of the book in general.
I certainly won't be dashing out to by the next one, but if my TBR pile ever diminishes to next to nothing, I might consider picking up more of the series.