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#86 A-Z reading challenge - authors

Harrison, Kim "For a few demons more"

About a witch who specialises in supernatural bounty hunting only this one is more about demons, her flatties (a pixy and a living vampire) and a personal vendetta with an elf. Number 5 in the series.

What did I think?

Well, I really enjoyed the first one. And the second. I think it all started going wrong for me about the third. You know what it's like - you're reading a series that you've enjoyed and then you strike one which doesn't quite do it for you but you keep the faith and try the next one, then as if you can't quite believe your eyes you read the next one too hoping against hope that it will all sort itself out... That's happened to me with a few series. It's not necessarily that the series goes bad (although Anita Blake baby - I'll make an exception for you) just that it loses what you liked about the first book and then you find another 'first book' which contains the things you've liked and since it's all shiny and new you forget about the original series. I get that the author has to advance the character for interest but I'm not sure that sliding her into doing things that she was vehemently against at the beginning of the series is actually developing the character. In this book particularly the main character seems very, not nice, and the supporting characters are just caricatures of who they were in the beginning. Plus there's an incident when someone dies and that doesn't get resolved. (At least, I don't remember it getting resolved but by that stage I may have just been reading to finish the book.) I will probably read the next one to see if the character is redeemed or actually learns anything (and makes changes because of it) from her experiences. I'm not going to hold my breath though.

N.B. I will add a little disclaimer here and just say that I read a lot of these types of books so I may have got them all mixed up with each other. :)