Dead Witch Walking

[louisedennis]

Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison is set in an alternative universe in which a genetically engineered tomato wiped out most of humanity in the 1960s. Most of humanity that is except for the witches, vampires, pixies, werewolves and you name it who now make up approximately 50% of the population. Rachel Morgan works for Inderland Security which

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[fredbassett]

The rest of the books in the series are definitely worth reading. I've enjoyed all of them and Jenks and his family continue to be great fun. The tomato bit always amused me as well.

[bunn]

This sounds promising, I might give it a go.

[louisedennis]

Having thought about things a little more I'd say Rachel doesn't do anything particularly stupid (though she can be scarily impulsive) but she does seem woefully ill-informed about, for instance, Vampire, Pixies and Demons which is a little odd for someone who's job involves apprehending paranormal law-breakers. I guess its partly a device to convey information to the reader in an interesting way but it does make her look a little dumb and rather self-centred at times.

I'm still dithering about buying the next one. I can imagine lots of the niggles I had with this could get ironed out as the series progresses.

[iriswildthyme]

Sounds interesting - that'll be another blog recommendation which I have to stick in my amazon shopping basket...