Once, when I picked up a book from the local library, the librarian asked to tell her what I thought about the book when I would bring it back. Well, why not write a few lines about all the books I read so everybody could see what I thought about it? I'm often also happy to have friends recommend a certain book or tell me this and that is not really worth reading. I won't comment about the tons of books I have read so far, but about books I read from now on.
| highly recommended | sehr empfohlen | |
| good reading | gutes lesematerial | |
| average | durchschnittlich | |
| not too interesting | nicht allzu interessant | |
| recommended not to read it | empfehlung das buch nicht zu lesen |
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| title | Pale Demon |
| author | Kim Harrison |
| ISBN-10 | 0-061-13807-X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-061-13807-2 |
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| date | 2019-Sep-26 |
Book number 9 in the Hollows series. If you haven't read the preceding books, then go and read them first; there are a number of back references and the story in this book generally assumes you know what has happened before.
Rachel has been shunned, but a deal was made to remove her shunning at a public hearing if she apologizes for having used black magic. Rachel would not be Rachel if getting to the west coast was easy, safe and without major problems. And as always, the whole load of her problems is not decreasing but increasing.
What happens in this book gives, I believe, the whole story a new direction for the future. Things, which up to now have been a given, get somewhat shaky and uncertain. The whole setup, which was used in books 1-9, could possibly change in the future; at least the ground is laid out for changes.
One chapter in the middle of the book, when Rachel and her companions are attacked by a dark force, are rather bloody. That scene feels much like right out of a horror movie; a little overdone. Other than that, you get what you learnt to expect after having read eight of these books already. Kim Harrison is one of the few authors which succeeds to develop an ever evolving story over a larger number of books without getting boring, too predictable or too repetitive.
