Dead Witch Walking, by Kim Harrison | Book Review #184

“All the creatures of the night gather in “the Hollows” of Cincinnati, to hide, to prowl, to party… and to feed.

Vampires rule the darkness in a predator-eat-predator world rife with dangers beyond imagining – and it’s Rachel Morgan’s job to keep that world civilized.

A bounty hunter and witch with serious sex appeal and an attitude, she’ll bring ’em back alive, dead… or undead.”

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Dead Witch Walking is the first book in The Hollows series by Kim Harrison.

Dead Witch Walking features a story that takes place far into the future. In this future there was a virus that ruined the world causing mass destruction and death among the humans. The story actually takes place after the the after-math.

A nice thing about the writing is that the author made sure that the characters seems realistic. There’s a real realness to each and every character–even if we only see them for a second or so. I can easily see these characters as people and not just some characters in a book.

Have you ever read or watched something, and you realize what’s happening, but what’s happening doesn’t really process in your brain? That’s what it was like reading Dead Witch Walking. I was liking what I was reading, but it’s like I was spacing out more often than not. Which is a huuuuge problem if you want to be invested in the stories and books you read.

There’s this underlying theme of an almost lesbian erotic thing going on, but then a character will go “I’m straight.” Which  was really boring in my opinion.

I gotta say” there were times when this book was boring, and not only when those almost-lesbian moments happened. There other times thought? The other times were highly entertaining, certainly making up for the boring parts.

I found myself laughing a ton; making the book more enjoyable. Especially in the last stretch of the book. And there were new developments that happened in the last half of the book that I couldn’t predict, so everything was much a surprise.

I ended up giving Dead Witch Walking 2 of 5 stars.

Happy Reading!
Adele