Review: Waking the Witch

Waking the Witch by Kelley Armstrong

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



This is one of my favorite paranormal fantasy series and [a:Kelley Armstrong|7581|Kelley Armstrong|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1199068298p2/7581.jpg] just keep on deliver one great read after another.
Part of what makes this series so compelling are the strong and vivid characters and the way they interweave within the different books. Why I bring this up, because this is the first book where Savannah is the main character, but she has played important roles in previous book (starting with [b:Stolen|11922|Stolen (Women of the Otherworld, #2)|Kelley Armstrong|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1300923278s/11922.jpg|14289] #2 in the series).
Having followed the series we've seen her going from a child to a teenager and now a young adult, with the responsibility of running her adoptive parents paranormal investigation business for a week, while they are on vacation and of course she gets a new case.
This creates the ember for a book that is both plot and character driven story, where she grows with the responsibility and from the mistakes she makes.



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Review: Shakespeare's Landlord

Shakespeare's Landlord by Charlaine Harris

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



A murder/mystery novel that takes place in a small fairly tight knit community where everyone thinks they know everything about everyone else, but one of them is a murderer.
The MC (Lily Bard) has issues (from a past she keeps secret), which prevent her from sleeping at night and so she has taken to slinking through the shadows of the small town in the dead of night. This is why she stumbles upon the murderer as he/she disposes of the body in the park next to her house.
I won't say that this is a book that can live up to the might of Agatha Christie, but there is an important similarity in that the clues to the identity is sprinkled throughout the story, challenging the reader to beat the MC to the punch.
Not great literature, but an enjoyable read.



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