Dead Witch Walking

After slogging through a brutal book, as I did with Rabbit is Rich, it was such a relief to sit back and relax with a light and enjoyable adventure with my favorite witch, pixy, and vampire. I read The Good, the Bad, and the Undead earlier this year and rushed out to buy the rest of the books in the series and they have been sitting on my TBR shelf ever since. What a shame!

I decided to start with the first one to see what I missed and how things came to be the way they were in Rachel's world. Realizing part of the way through that I knew the solution to a mystery that had been going throughout several books was another good reason to start at the beginning.

Rachel Morgan is a witch living in Cincinnati after the Turn and is a runner for I.S. Basically what happened was a deadly virus killed a significant portion of the world's population and to avoid complete social collapse, witches, werewolves, vampires, pixies, fairies, and other creatures like that came out of hiding to offer their services to humans. They were immune to the virus. There were expected altercations and now the world is living in an uneasy truce between the two groups.

Feeling like she's getting the short end of the broomstick, Rachel decides to quit I.S. to create her own Runner service. But no one just resigns from I.S. and a contract is put out on her life. Attacked in all sorts of ways, she turns to her co-worker Ivy, an elegant but dangerous living vampire who quit I.S. along with Rachel to start the business with her. Ivy lives in a church which offers some protection from a few species and Rachel finds the large open spaces, herb garden, and well-appointed kitchen to her liking so she moves in.

With attacks coming from the outside and Ivy craving her blood inside, Rachel decides to take matters into her own hands, or paws as it so happens. But I don't want to say more about the story because it is such fun to find out what happens as it goes along.

I recommend reading this book first because all the main characters are introduced here. This series is imaginative and humorous and I'm already getting that warm and fuzzy feeling that comes from visiting old friends in books. I look forward to reading the rest.