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Kim Harrison
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Publisher | Harper Voyager | ||
ISBN | 978-000723609 | ||
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Ann
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Synopsis
This is the first book in a new urban fantasy-thriller series with the perfect amount of wry humour and a sassy female lead, which will delight all fans of thrillers and fantasy alike. 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
This is the first in a new fantasy thriller series featuring Rachel Morgan, a witch operating with the Inderland Runner Services, catching criminals in modern Cincinnati. A genetically engineered virus has decimated the human population, and witches, vampires, pixies and other fantasy races have surfaced as citizens.
The character of Rachel comes fully formed, her history emerging through the story, along with her confederates, Ivy the vampire and Jenks the pixie.
Despite the 30 year contract and the fact that no-one has ever left the Service without being killed, (hence the title) Rachel decides to do just that, and that more or less sets the standard for her constant behaviour - disregarding advice and completely reckless. Its just as well that she heals easily as there's a lot of blood, one way or another.
Good characters, more interesting than Rachel really as one wonders why she becomes the focus of so much activity, some not completely bad Baddies, and a whole new social scene to define.
Nice touches - for example a handbook for dating vampires, the human fear of tomatoes, the naughtiness of pixie children.
A very good start, and quite compelling to find out more.
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