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    Dead Witch Walking

    Written by Kim Harrison

    Narrated by Marguerite Gavin

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    About this audiobook

    Rachel Morgan is a runner with the Inderland Runner Services, apprehending law-breakers throughout Cincinnati. She's also a witch, one of the many Inderlanders who revealed themselves after a genetically engineered virus wiped out 50 percent of humanity. Witches, warlocks, vampires, werewolves-the creatures of dreams and nightmares have lived beside humans for centuries, hiding their powers. But now they've stopped hiding, and nothing will be the same.

    On the run with a contract on her head, Rachel reluctantly teams up with Ivy, Inderland's best runner…and a living vampire. But this witch is way out of her league, and to clear her name, Rachel must evade shape-changing assassins, outwit a powerful businessman/crimelord, and survive a vicious underground fight-to-the-death…not to mention her own roommate!

    Fun, sassy, filled with action, humor, and romance, Dead Witch Walking is the perfect summer listen for anyone who likes vampires, paranormal fantasy, romance, or just a great beach book.

    Editor's Note

    Dark & demonic…

    Venture to an alternate, post-virus-apocalypse Cincinnati with sexy, bounty-hunting witch Rachel Morgan. This first installment of The Hollows series will have you instantly hooked.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Audio
    Release dateJul 23, 2007
    ISBN9781400174713
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    Dead Witch Walking
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    Kim Harrison

    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.

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    • 4/5
      I loved it. This book (and the two that follow it) is thrilling and magical. Its seams are bursting with creativity. It is everything an urban fantasy, a romance, a crime/mystery, and general kick-ass book should be. The series isn't perfect- the first book in particular could be a bit confusing in its world explaining, and its rythm was a bit off. But it really grows into itself over time, and I found it really hard to put the third book down, it was so addictive and smoothly written.

      The basic plot is this: Many humans were wiped out by some sort of disease in a period called the "turn". Then the supernatural creatures realised their collective population was roughly equal to that of humanity, and came out of the closet. Our witchy heroine, Rachel Morgan, quits her job as a runner for the I.S (as a sort of field policewoman for supernatural crime) to start her own private firm with a pixy and a vampire, living in an old church. Many exciting hijinks ensue, as she faces death threats from her former employer, and tries to bring down a big baddie with a front as a benevolent businessman.

      What to expect?
      *A sometimes brash, impulsive, irritating heroine who is completely worthy of our admiration and love anyway.
      *A magic system (that once properly explained) blows all other magic out of the water: potions, charms, ley-line magic, demonic summoning, it has it all.
      *Some fun denizens- pixies, vampires, and witches, oh my! Not to mention leprechauns, fairies, demons, and who knows what else is to come.
      *Some wild and crazy romance.
      *An immersive world- we readers are thrown right into the action, into a world our heroine has lived in all her life.

      Have fun! You're in for a wild ride!
    • 2/5
      Okay I tried. I tried so hard for over 2 months to like this book, but this book is so damn boring I want to scream! You could literally skip over entire chapters and not miss a thing. I'm still torn because I really really want to like this book but I know I shouldn't force myself. Perhaps I will set it aside for right now and pick it up at a later date.
    • 4/5
      Interesting world with a fun, satisfying band of characters. I particularly like Jenks and his family. It had a few editorial issues, but they only upended the suspension of disbelief for a bit. If anything wore on me, it was the number of hair's breadth misses. Were they all necessary? Eh, I wouldn't say no, outright, but they became a bit tiresome by the end.
    • 4/5
      This review first appeared on A Weebish Book BlogAugust has been all about clearing the TBR shelves for me, and DEAD WITCH WALKING by Kim Harrison was one that had me buying even more books. Whoops. The book has been collecting dust for years and nowThe Hollows series has become an eagerly anticipated adventure. I have since purchased the next two books in the series.After years of dead-end assignments and feeling underappreciated, Rachel Morgan breaks her contract as an IS runner and decides to start her own independent runner service. Furious that Rachel took Ivy, his best runner, her former boss puts a hit out on the witch. Determined to shake her death mark, Rachel sets out to uncover evidence of councilman Trent Kalamack’s suspected drug operation.The first novel in The Hollows series introduces readers to an entertaining cast of characters:~ Rachel Morgan, kick-ass earth witch and bounty hunter. She’s smart, sexy, and—as IS soon discovers—rather difficult to kill. She solves a complex case while dodging assassination attempts at every turn.~ Ivy Tamwood is the last of her family’s living vampire bloodline and Rachel’s new wealthy business partner. She has an air of mystery about her, but so far I’ve learned she has a massive crush on Rachel, she’s been fasting from blood for three years, and she’s having a rough time adjusting to living with a human.~ Jenk’s is Rachel’s pixie backup and crime solving partner. The overly blunt honey addict is probably my favorite character of the bunch. He’s a tough as nails warrior, and takes his job as protector seriously. If I were on the run for my life and had to depend on one person, I’d choose Jenks.Not only were the characters on point, so was the world building. The world of DEAD WITCH WALKING is one of alternate history and an urban fantasy masterpiece. The scientific community cracked the genetic code, replacing the space race of the ’60s with bioweaponry. The Cold War unleashed a virus which killed a fourth of the human population and outed the Inderland species—vampires, weres, pixies, etc. About any paranormal creature you can think of is a thing of reality.DEAD WITCH WALKING takes place forty years after the Turn, where humans and Inderland creatures reside side-by-side and the government monitors them all. I loved the complexity of this world and how it all plays a part in Rachel’s rush to solve the mystery and save her life.There is a minute romance between Rachel and Nick, ex-librarian and full human male she wound up rescuing on her adventures. I’m excited to see how their relationship plays out in the rest of the series.DEAD WITCH WALKING was a riveting urban fantasy full of mystery and mystical intrigue. It left me craving more paranormal adventures with Rachel, Jenks, and Ivy. I cannot wait to what’s in store for the crew in THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UNDEAD.
    • 2/5
      Rachel Morgan is better than your average urban fantasy heroine. The author's insistence upon stressing Rachel's need to dress "sluttily" sometimes comes off as trying too hard, but as the sex scenes are both rare and hot the overtly sexual attitude can be forgiven.

      Ivy, Rachel's vampiric best friend and partner is interesting to a point, but the trials and travails of this wannabe good vampire can be boring.

      Jenks the pixy and his family are win, as are the other inhabitants of the world after "the Turn."
    • 4/5
      This is a book that is at more of the start of the urban fantasy genre - and as a result - not that derivative of the genre tropes. It also is written with an eye for detail, everything is tight, everything makes sense. The main character, Rachel Morgan, is competent, smart, and headstrong. However, she does listen, and learns from her mistakes. There were elements of the plot that were unexpected. I'm surprised that the hot mystery villain guy actually stayed in the role of villain - too many of these types of books have the heroine and the villain teaming up, eventually falling in love, in a morally complicated relationship. Of course, it isn't perfect. I found Rachel to date to quickly after her experiences, and with a guy who was in a predicament that he needs to mentally heal from. I found the description of all the men to be annoying. Does Rachel and Ivy really need to discuss every man that comes across their paths? However, at times, it does fall into a predictable trope of heroine is always on her, but manages to get a group of friends who will die for her. Also add in a father who died in a violent and mysterious way.Of course, you don't read these novels for their high literary value, but, for what it is, its well written, an interesting world, with interesting characters.
    • 2/5
      While reading:--Do NOT care for this narrator. She makes Rachel sound like a 50 year old with smoker voice. Not at all how I envisioned her.-- The more I listen to this book, the less I like it. Though I don't know how much of that is the narrator and how much is the text. May have to reread it as text and see if it is any better.
    • 5/5
      Suberb series debut
    • 4/5
      This was surprisingly really good. I've picked up a lot of urban fantasy in the last decade or so and there have been too many times where the writing sucked and thus the story was ruined for me. I was worried that this would be another one of those fantasies. So I was thrilled early on when I realized right off the bat that this was going to be a good one. And it kept it's swing all the way through to the end. It's a classic urban fantasy with witches, vampires, demons, fairies, etc., but the world built around these creatures was unique and fascinating. I'm definetly going to be grabbing the next book soon.
    • 4/5
      Really fun series.
    • 2/5
      This book has been recommended to me a few times. I didn't care for the writing, so didn't finish it.
    • 5/5
      I am impressed with this series!! I had heard good things about the Hallows series and now I'm in love!! I truly enjoyed that the language was subdued and not terse unlike so many other books! Now onto the second book in this series!!!
    • 4/5
      This is the first book in a supernatural adventure series. It is set in Cincinnati, which is why I picked it up. I had trouble getting through the first chapter; it was dense trying to explain how people and vamps/weres/witchs/pixies/fairies wound up living next to each other. After the first chapter the story picks up the pace and is a very interesting read.
    • 3/5
      Didn't like her vampire.
    • 3/5
      Kim Harrison's Cincinnati is located in a United States in which witches, vampires, werefolk, and other creatures formerly thought of as inhabiting fable and fiction live side-by-side with humans. Or they have for the last forty years, since "The Turn," when humanity decimated a large percentage of its population with bioengineered diseases...diseases which had no effect on the non-humans they had no idea had always existed alongside themselves.Rachel Morgan is a witch who works as a runner, bringing down lawbreaking members of the supernatural, or Interlander, community. She's got a price on her head, her roommate and business partner is a non-practicing vampire, and a pixie family lives in her garden.Kim Harrison has posited an intriguing world, and worked out many of its details in an original and satisfying fashion. Her writing, however--at least in this, the first installment of the series--is awkward and rather hackneyed. Good for fans of Jim Butcher or Rachel Caine jonesing for a fix between installments.
    • 5/5
      This is like the 10th time I've gone through this series. I can't get enough.
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed this book
    • 3/5
      I liked it, the story was interesting with many charaters to follow. I missed the romance, there was really none. A couple of sexy guys and nothing from her. I would have given it 4-5 stars, if it had some. I just felt Rachel was all business and no love. The action was fantastic, so I'll give it another try with the second book.
    • 4/5
      Really about 3.5 stars. Good start but the story stalls sometimes into 'Romance' territory. The mythology doesn't always feel completely fleshed out, but it is not too distracting.
    • 2/5
      Okay I tried. I tried so hard for over 2 months to like this book, but this book is so damn boring I want to scream! You could literally skip over entire chapters and not miss a thing. I'm still torn because I really really want to like this book but I know I shouldn't force myself. Perhaps I will set it aside for right now and pick it up at a later date.
    • 5/5
      Most fun since Harry Potter and real adult interaction, but not smut.
    • 5/5
      Check out my other listens at Eargasms Audiobook Reviews

      Great series! Rachel is snarky and a kick a$$ chick! Jinx is hysterical and Ivy is a real bada$$!

      Terrific concept and truly entertaining tale! Great story telling that draws you in and keeps you engaged the whole way through!

      Can't wait to see where this series is headed!
    • 3/5
      Reading it was super easy and ridiculously hard by turns. Over all, I did enjoyed it; hopefully these intriguing characters will be better used in subsequent novels.
    • 5/5
      This series shows what world-building, characters and plot should be in a paranormal setting. And, as if that weren't enough, she has excellent skills with her actual writing. I knew from the first book that she was going to be a fun author. I am just glad they spent the money on making an interesting cover so I would pick it up. I would have missed out on this great first-time author.
    • 2/5
      This book is a mediocre ex-cop detective / magic novel. Think Dresden files but incredibly over the top changes to the world, characters with undiagnosed multiple personality disorder, and a terrible handle of normal plot progression (you know you can use the first 150 pages of the novel to do something, right? ).

      Worst of all is the name dropping. At no point does this book feel like the other knows anything about Cincinnati or spent more than 5 minutes reading a Wikipedia page. What was she thinking? You just ate? How about I offer you Graeters ice cream? (one reference!) We are going to the airport? Wait, I need to say "we are going to the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky Airport", that way it will feel like I'm building setting! (two references!). I could go to the store I MEAN FINDLAY MARKET (three references). Oh yes and Children's Medical Center, Eden Park, and "Newport Mall" all get name dropped as well without any use of the setting. It honestly felt like she thought she had to make a bare minimum number of name drops so people would buy that it was set in Cincinnati.

      All in all this is a great high school sophmore attempt at writing a novel, and one day when she's all grown up she might learn to not follow patterns in her rhetoric textbook blindly and write.something worth writing.
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed the addition of fey characters that haven't been a part of the urban fantasy I've been reading lately, but the story lacks overall coherence and is frequently repetitive. I like the main character well enough to want to know what happens in the next book, however. The narrator for the audio version was great. The pixie's voice could've been irritating, but it was just on the edge of acceptable.
    • 3/5
      Rachel has a contract on her head. With only a pixie, a vampire and a man recently a rat she must avoid fairies, weres and demons all trying to kill her.
    • 4/5
      I got this book when I got my first Kindle. We've all been there, you get your first kindle and you download anything that is free. This book sat and sat and sat in my Kindle. I tried once to read it and got bored. And then one day I had nothing else to read. Can't say enough ways how much I like this book. Once I got past the initial few chapters and got to the meat of the story, I was hooked. Truly a magical and spellbinding book, I love the characters that Kim Harrison has created. Can't wait to read the rest!
    • 4/5
      3.5 stars. It took till the end of the book to really pick up. Hopefully the next book will be a bit faster paced and not as repetitive.
    • 5/5
      Who would have thought an innocent tomato could cause such havoc?A tomato borne virus splits humanity into the normal and the supernatural. Now Rachel lives with a vampire, not a normal one this one is still living. She works for a paranormal form of the FBI and she keeps getting the crappy jobs. A girl needs to kick start her career somehow because getting out isn't currently an option.Brimstone is the current drug of choice destroying life as we know it, so why not take down the biggest dealer in town. Even if it doesn't help her negotiate a release from her job, it's a big boost to her reputation.I recommend this to any one who likes great urban fantasy and is a fan of authors like Jim Butcher.