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Chargement... Urban Shaman (The Walker Papers, Book 1) (original 2005; édition 2005)par C.E. Murphy
Information sur l'oeuvreChamane par C. E. Murphy (2005)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. DNF: read maybe 15% but skimmed 30%. I didn't immerse in the setting, the character was a two-dimensional "chip on her shoulder heroine that's supposed to be badass because of her reactive tough attitude", so there wasn't anything anchored enough to pull me in. It's written to be read fast and not thought about. Too many conveniences and characters handle things as if nothing serious actually impacts them--were they even there? Is this just a loose fantasy the author had in her mind and not something she wanted to have good storytelling? It was just too shallow for me. This was a great urban fantasy story that introduces a series. Joanne Walker is half-Irish half-Cherokee. She is a mechanic who works for the police department and happens to have gone through the police academy successfully. On a trip home from being with her dying mother, the woman who abandoned her to her father when she was young, she spots a crime happening from the airplane as it approaches landing. When she hires a cab driver to help her find the location and save the woman she saw running from a pack of dogs, she doesn't expect to enter into a whole world pf paranormal creatures or to learn that she is a shaman. She and her sidekick Gary, the 72-year-old cabdriver, are soon deep into the supernatural as Joanne has to deal with Herne, Cernunnos, and the Wild Hunt. Joanne has never been a believer in much of anything. So having to believe in the supernatural is quite a stretch for her. Spiritwalking and meeting her spirit guide Coyote do help her find out what is happening, but raises more questions than it answers. Joanne has only a couple of days to heal the world or it and she will be lost. I really liked Joanne and Gary. Joanne isn't the typical kick-ass urban fantasy heroine. She gets hurt a lot - luckily the ability to heal is one of her new talents. She has her own troubled past which is gradually revealed. She is also not at all certain that she wants to be a serving police officer. She really like being a mechanic instead. But she isn't going to ignore the responsibilities that come with her new powers. Great story with lots of action and excitement. Excellently narrated by Christine Carroll.
Voici donc un livre intéressant, avec des personnages attachants, mais qui souffre de sa précipitation, surtout vers la fin. L'héroïne maîtrise trop facilement ses pouvoirs, et son affrontement avec le Dieu est finalement peu crédible. C'est cependant un livre agréable à lire, qui a un petit parfum des séries du samedi soir sur M6, et qui cible clairement le même public. Appartient à la sérieJoanne Walker (1) Est contenu dansPrix et récompenses
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HTML: Joanne Walker has three days to learn to use her shamanic powers and save the world from the unleashed Wild Hunt. No worries. No pressure. Never mind the lack of sleep, the perplexing new talent for healing herself from fatal wounds, or the cryptic, talking coyote who appears in her dreams. And if all that's not bad enough, in the three years Joanne's been a cop, she's never seen a dead body--but she's just come across her second in three days. It's been a bitch of a week. And it isn't over yet. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque
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Joanne Walker is just returning from a protracted visit to Ireland for her estranged mother's funeral when just as the aeroplane is landing, she spots a woman being chased a (many references are made to the unlikelihood of this, but then never followed up). She rushed through to investigate with the help of a patient cabby, and finds the woman hiding in a church crypt. They're subsequently both attached by a man ona horse with a sword, and Joanne receives a stab wound through her chest. A spirit Guide, helps her choose to heal, and she realises nothing she's ever known will be quite the same as her heritage which she's ignored all her life has come to claim her. She is one of the few Shaman, there to heal the world, starting with the Wild Hunt in Seattle. Most of the character drama comes from her interactions with her employers the city police.
I wasn't utterly sure that casting her as a mechanic with a coyote animal was innovative, because it's very similar to the popular Mercedes in Patricia Brigg's werewolf novels, but the two stories takes sufficiently divergent tracks to be memorably different. ( )