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Blutdämon (2011)

by Kim Harrison(Favorite Author)

4.45 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

3453528484 (ISBN13: 9783453528482)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Heyne

series

The Hollows

review 1: I think this was the one where it really started to heat up for me--and I already like the earlier books plenty. The part where Rachel Morgan has to live in the Ever After for a time and creates a new world for them to enjoy, these demons who can't leave the Ever After or feel sunlight anymore. That dead, dried-out, desolate land she creates for them is so perfect for her own feelings of loneliness and despair. And the tender relationship it seems to foster between her and Al--they are learning to trust and to respect and to treat each other with more than just civility or attempts to get one over on the other one. I have really enjoyed their evolving relationship. SPOILER ALERT: I never really expected her to out herself as a demon so publicly. I think Harrison does ... morea good job of writing the "rules" for her stories but then writing a way out of them, to give this world the chance to grow and tell more varied stories.
review 2: The moral difficulty Rachel finds herself in is here in this story brought to front and center. I've been frustrated lately with how absurd the black and white thinking of Rachel has gotten her into so much trouble, particularly in the world in which she lives. While there have been struggles, the result was always a further identification with being different than others in an attempt to remain "pure." That journey makes sense given the history, but I was curious when it was going to move forward. Here it does and in spectacular form. The road trip with Kalamack is like a fantastical version of a comedy skit and the space provided for Trent to expand as a person is delightful. Throw in a particularly messed-up demon and a further fleshing out of the world Harrison has created, the result is one of the best of the series. less

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