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Living with the Dead | 
| Author: Kelley Armstrong
Publisher: Orbit
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 1115
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 5.6 x 1.5
ISBN: 1841497320
EAN: 9781841497327
ASIN: 1841497320
Publication Date: November 6, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Living With The Dead November 10, 2008
I agree with the first review. A good read but certainly not the best in the series. I'm not a fan of Hope as a main character and would have preferred Karl to have a larger role than he did. In saying that, I did like her character better in this book than I did in the last. She doesn't come across as quite as helpless as previous.
If you are looking for a quick and easy read then I do recommend this. It's entertaining but as I've already mentioned certainly not the best. Won't stop me from looking forward to future publications from this author.
Still Going Strong November 10, 2008
Living with the Dead is the ninth book in the supernatural Women of the Otherworld series. Nine books into the series and I believe that the series is still going strong. Kelley Armstrong creates a really good and enjoyable story.
Robyn Peltier is a PR agent managing Portia Kane a Paris Hilton knock off. When Portia is found dead at a nightclub that both Portia and Robyn where attending Robyn is murder suspect number one. With Robyn on the run from the police and still shell shocked after the death of her husband, Damon it is up to Hope and Karl to figure out who was the real murderer. All the while trying to hide the supernatural from Robyn in a case that is of the supernatural world .
Living with the Dead is in multiple points of view so through out the story we get the hear exactly what eveyone is thinking. I totally enjoyed this story and am sure that fans of Kelley Armstrong will do so as well.
Good but not her best. November 8, 2008
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I've been a fan of Kelley Armstrong's books for years but I'm sad to say that this book is not her best. It's a good book and I passed an enjoyable evening curled up on the sofa reading this but it doesn't come up to the extremely high standards which she has set in so many of her previous books.
In 'Living with the Dead' Hope Adams (and her boyfriend Karl Marsten) is in L.A. temporarily on assignment for work, but she also there to check up on her friend Robyn Peltier who's husband was killed a few months previously. When one of Robyn's clients is murdered and Robyn becomes the prime suspect after fleeing the scene of the murder, Hope and Karl try to clear her name. Also trying to find Robyn is homicide detective John Findlay (Finn) who happens to be a necromancer. Finn is being helped track Robyn down and solve the murder by the ghost of Robyn's dead husband Damon. (I love this idea - a necromancer solving crimes with the help of a ghost sidekick!)
Robyn, Finn and Damon are interesting characters and good additions to this series, but with so many other characters center stage you never get to know any of them very well. This leads on to my first problem with this book, which is the number of point of views that are used to tell the story (Hope, Robyn, Finn, Adele, Colm). I felt that this made the story a bit too disjointed hopping from one person to another every other chapter. In her earlier books the story is told far more from one or two characters perspectives and you get to know the characters in far more depth. I've not been able to warm to Hope as much as to previous characters and I think it's partially because of the constant switching perspectives that have been used in the books which feature her.
My other problem with this book is the villain of the piece, yes she comes across as ruthless and manipulative and generally nasty but not terribly scary all things considered, and not really big and bad enough to be the major villain in a supernatural story. Maybe this was a conscious decision - that because the main character Robyn is human the supernatural baddies actions have to be scaled down more appropriately to something potentially just an everyday human criminal.
Despite the faults i've mentioned this is a good book and if you're a fan of the series already like me then you will probably enjoy it too. If you haven't read anything by Kelley Armstrong before I'd recommend that you start with Bitten and work your way through the series.
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