I enjoyed this more than I thought I would at the beginning of the book. My wife gave me the thumbs up so I read it. Been on my to read shelf for a while. She is flying through the series, I will be following her soon, but a few new authors came in...I'm sure you all know how it is. ( )

Hörkuspennandi fyrsta bók seríu eftir Harrison þar sem mannkynið hefur komist að því að alls konar yfirnáttúrulegar verur eru þeirra á meðal. Rachel Morgan er ein þeirra, norn, sem gefst upp á því að vinna fyrir lögregluna sem sér um yfirnáttúrulega glæpamenn og ákveður að stofna sitt eigið fyrirtæki. Henni að óvörum ákveða 2 samstarfsfélagar hennar að halda út í óvissuna með henni. Þetta er þó léttara sagt en gjört því að lögregludeildin er þekkt fyrir að heita verðlaunum fyrir dráp á fyrrum starfsmönnum sínum sem yfirgefa hana gegn þeirra vilja.
Spennandi, húmorísk og full af óvæntum uppákomum. ( )

This was just so not for me. Idea sounded good, but the characters were so painfully horrible to have to read. One of very few I couldn't bear to finish. Took 2 weeks to make it about 43% in and just couldn't take it anymore. ( )

I remember starting to read this years ago, and I wasn’t able to finish it – I was bored before I got much beyond the 3rd chapter. Speaking to my sister the other day, she mentioned that it had taken her 3 tries to get through the first book, but after that got hooked on the series. So I figured I’d give it another try, since the ongoing UF series’ I enjoy are getting thin on the ground, and I checked it out from my library.

I got through it this time but as a first book, it’s weaker than most. Ultimately, it’s enjoyable, but Harrison makes you work for it by introducing an MC that’s supposed to be a badass witch, but is so timid it boggles the mind she survived her job as long as she did. She goes out on her own and partners with a living-vampire named Ivy and the two spend the book hovering in this weird quasi-sexual-assault dynamic that was chewing on my last nerve before the half-way mark. Hard to really get on-board with a heroine that acts like she’s about to suffer the vapours for most of the book. Jenks the pixie, was, as least, a consistent and delightful character and I was charmed by his entire family.

Things did pick up right towards the end, when Rachel finally found some spirit, but honestly I was on the fence about whether or not I’d read book 2 until I read a sneak peak at the end, for a book much further into the series, containing enough mini-spoilers to actually get me seriously interested in continuing the series. Guess that sneak peak paid for itself in this case. ( )

I couldn't believe it when I began this book on of the first urban fantasies I'd read. When into a bar walks a witch Rachael an investigator for Inderland Security (sort of a supernatural FBI) , with her pixy partner Jenks who works as her backup. She sits and drinks with another I.S. investigator, Ivy, a living vampire as she tries to spot the leprechaun who's " accused of fabricating a rainbow for the purpose of misrepresenting the income generated from said rainbow, failure to file the appropriate requisition forms for said rainbow, failure to notify Rainbow Authority of said rainbow’s end-" . Set in a fantasy modern day Cincinnati. ( )