Book Review: Kelley Armstrong’s Living with the Dead

Posted January 13, 2011 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews

I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

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Book Review: Kelley Armstrong’s Living with the Dead

Living with the Dead


by

Kelley Armstrong


It is part of the Women of the Otherworld #9 series and is a urban fantasy in a hardcover edition that was published by Bantam Books on October 21, 2008 and has 372 pages.

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Other books in this series include [books_series]

Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Broken, Personal Demon , Men of the Otherworld, Tales of the Otherworld, Frostbitten, Dates from Hell, Exit Strategy, Made to Be Broken, The Reckoning, Spell Bound, The Gathering, The Awakening, "Hidden", The Calling, Aftertaste, Kisses from Hell, The Rising, Omens, Wild Justice, Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions, Visions, Deceptions, The Masked Truth, City of the Lost, Empire of Night, Forest of Ruin, Betrayals, A Darkness Absolute, Indigo, Rituals, The Unquiet Past, This Fallen Prey, Stolen, Rough Justice, Dime Store Magic, Industrial Magic, Haunted, Broken, Waking the Witch, Portents, Missing, Alone in the Wild, Watcher in the Woods, Otherworld Secrets, Wherever She Goes, "The Case of the Half-Demon Spy", "Escape", Otherworld Chills, A Stranger in Town, "Bargain", Hex on the Beach, "Recruit", "Checkmate", "Framed", Cursed Luck, High Jinx, Bitten, Driven, "Forsaken", The Deepest of Secrets, "Dead Letter Days", Men of the Otherworld, The Boy Who Cried Bear

Ninth in the Women of the Otherworld urban fantasy series revolving around a secret world of witches, werewolves, demons, vampires.

My Take

This is another story revolving about Hope and Karl only this time they’re in LA with some interaction from the Nast Cabal. Robyn, a human friend of Hope’s, her beloved husband shot 6 months earlier, has moved to LA to act as a publicist to a Paris Hilton-wannabe, Portia, hoping to lose herself in her work. Hope has arrived in LA to help only for the three of them to get caught up in Portia’s murder.

The detective on the case sees ghosts but doesn’t know about the supes. The actual murderer is a psychopathic clairvoyant willing to kill anyone who gets in her way. And there’s a secret community of clairvoyants hoping to stay out of everyone’s way.

Robyn is running like made making stupid decisions, getting people killed, and it’s so frustrating in that neither Hope nor Karl can tell Robyn about the supernaturals around her but it would sure make it easier to protect her!

What is this chick’s problem?? She’s got a phone. She knows who the killer is. Call Finn!!!

And why is it that every woman has to go running off to save the day…jeez, I’m such a hypocrite! Arghhh…