Monday 12 December 2011

book review (greywalker)

      Greywalker
    Prod dets
Greywalker series, book 1
Pub: 2006,
Author: Kat Richardson
Cat: paranormal fiction
Format: paperback (mid); 341 pp w/ 31 chapters
Age Range: adult

            Synopsis
Harper Blaine was slogging along as a small-time PI when a two-bit perp’s savage assault left her dead.
    
For two minutes, to be precise.
    
When Harper comes to in the hospital, she begins to feel a bit...strange. She sees things that can only be described as weird – shapes emerging from a foggy grey mist, snarling teeth, creatures roaring.
    
But Harper’s not crazy. Her ‘death’ has made her a Greywalker – able to move between our world and the mysterious crossover zone where things that go bump in the night exist. And her new gift (or curse) is about to drag her into that world of vampires and ghosts, magic and witches, necromancers and sinister artefacts... Whether she likes it or not.

     my Thoughts (review)
something is quite right in the world of Harper, not only is more and more mythical creatures appearing before her, but she’s seeing scary shit just out of her vision. Which is soon learns is called the grey, a place where ghost rest (layman’s terms here).

But more importantly, there’s something fishy going on the in vampire world and Harper is put in the middle by a stranger she once new and a kid with eyes and a story she just couldn’t turn down.

And then there’s the antiquity.


Yeah. This is a crime novel. A paranormal one as well. Which is kinda cool if you like that type of thing, and mostly I have a problem with it. With that overly crime topic, I can’t do it. I...yeah, I’m not a fan of it.

I read this book in...shit 2010 I think, though it took me a little to get up the steal to try the book out (I can’t even remember why I got this book, I think it was only because I was given, or even bought a latter book in this series and realised that I would have to read this one to figure out what the hell was actually going on.) but I did, and though the writing skill of the woman, the way the books are written, they are very well done, in a way that even though I didn’t particularly like this book, the subject matter and all that, I still read the whole thing and liked it. I just didn’t like it!

There’s just something I can’t enjoy about full blown crime, and I’m grateful, seriously, you all should be to if you enjoy romances and YA because they are still all at a costly price whereas you get into crime, you know, the type people think is the only GREAT type of book, the pricing is through the roof.

If you have read Greywalker and have a better review, contact me and I will replace mine with yours, or add yours under this, because I want them honest but I know that my liking of books isn’t yours and I want you all to have a great idea of what this book is about, and there’s no one better to give you that, but by a fan—they read them better, even more than one time.

Series
[tb], Poltergeist, Underground, Vanished, Labyrinth, Downpour, Seawitch (Aug 2012)
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