Off the Bookshelf

As you've previously read, I've spent a few days doing anything OTHER THAN finding another unsuspecting agent to query (UPDATE: I actually have sent out ONE email).

I've added more to a Noir novella that I'm completely loving and the sequel to my finished manuscript, started a new knitting project, dreamt about the design of my future house, watched movies with Love, played with the dogs, and finished a few more "real world" projects like the laundry or the dishes or my finances. :)

So much time has passed since my last admission of what I've been reading that I'm nearly through book 5 of the series I spoke on then! How time flies!

While I would like to catch you up with what I've been doing with the Women's Murder Club--including the new killer who may or may not pose as both a man AND a woman-- I actually wanted to mention a book series I started to read earlier last year (although I still haven't finished book 5 <--no judging!).

FYI: Awesome photo taken from http://www.larissaslife.com/.

In regards to the photo, I have read Greywalker, Poltergeist, Underground, Vanished, and part of Labyrinth. I think that at book five I got winded and then found the WMC, so once I get winded on Patterson, I'll go back. :)

To give you a bit of the overall story: The series follows Harper Blaine, a PI in Seattle, who dies at the open of the series (for a few minutes). When she comes out of her coma, she discovers the ability to move in the "Grey", the world between life and death where pretty much all paranormal things hang out. Even though she wants to be normal and seems to have a real dislike for the new change, some of her clients end up coming from that very world. So, inevitably, she gets thrown into situations that are hairy and tense and action packed and probably not anything another human would do.

The coolest part, I think was book 2, Poltergeist, which followed a group at the local University who were trying to "create" a ghost. People died, you learned how "disturbances" can be faked, it was awesome. :)

I can't really think of anything I didn't like, other than maybe her choice of boyfriends. I don't want to give too much away, but the one she has through most of the first books I definitely pictured being way younger than her, so it seemed a little off to me. (Or maybe it was just that I pictured him like Dilton from the Archie comics HAHA)

My FAVORITE part of the books so far are her friends Mara and Ben who are professors (and Mara's a witch). So far they've been really good soundboards for Harper--despite having a ghost in their house who doesn't like her--helping her out with the Greywalker stuff and some of her cases.

Another favorite is her Ferret, Chaos. I've never owned one, but she almost makes you want to. :)




Hope your books are just as fun! :)



*Kayla*