Every Which Way but Dead by Kim Harrison -7/14/08 (audio)

I read two of this series and decided not to read any more but then saw this at the library and thought, “Why not?”  I’m glad I did.  It wasn’t that I didn’t like the series, it was that I just didn’t care that much about the characters. Harrison just needed to get her stride, so I will be going back and reading the books between the last I read and this.

 

The stories are complicated and there are generally more than one plotline going on at once.  I will very likely leave stuff out, but here goes.

 

Rachel saves Cere, Algoliarept the Demon’s familiar, from dying and someone Cere saves Rachel from having to go to the Everafter with Al (as they call the demon.)  Rachel’s boyfriend, Nick, leaves her since she accidentally made him her familiar and he doesn’t like it.  Rachel’s roommate, Ivy, has family issues but I can’t remember what they are.  It took me a long time to listen to this whole book!  At one point, Rachel is on a ship with Kiston, on a date of sorts (Kiston is Ivy’s friend and fellow living vampire) when they are separated and Rachel meets an unnamed guy who turns out to be a Bad Guy.  Rachel nearly gets blown up, she winds up working for Trent Kalamac (I may well be spelling these names wrong as I do not have the book to reference) and someone sort of winds up liking him.  She doesn’t tell Trent that Cere is an elf and could be of help with his research into how to reverse a curse on elves that was made 2,000 years ago.  Cere is 1,000 years old.   Jenks gets mad at Rachel and leaves, refusing to talk to her for the rest of the book.  David, a were, asks Rachel to be in his pack.  Not marry him, just be his Alpha Bitch and get him off the hook for having a real pack.  Rachel winds up dating Kiston.  At the end, Rachel winds up owing Al one favor still, though she got rid of one of his demon marks, but also owes a favor to another demon, a gender nonspecific demon whose name I can’t remember but of whom Cere is afraid.

The Good, the Bad and the Undead by Kim Harrison 09/30/07

Honestly, I’m not sure what this book was about and I doubt I’ll read the rest of the series.  It wasn’t bad, it’s just not my thing, I think.

Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison 09/12/07

This is another series.  I dont’ know why I like series books so much but I do.

So, the main character, Rachel Morgan, is a witch.  In her world, there are Inderlanders (witches, were-whatevers, vampires and other assorted creatures) and the rest of us.  I can’t remember what they call the non-magical.  Rachel is basically the equivalent of an FBI-agent who wants to quit.  Only in her world, they have a life time contract, so to do so is problematic.

She and Ivy, her nemesis (at least at the beginning) both leave, along with Jenks, a pixie.  They start their own business.  Except, they really can’t because too many people are trying to kill Rachel.

It was an interesting book and I’ll probably read the next in the series.