A review by wyemu
Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison

3.0

As I've said before I really appreciate the urban fantasy genre because of the way it manipulates the world we already know. Harrison has done just that; taking our world and changing it so that, on a basic level it's the same, but it's also not quite the world we recognise. In Harrison's Cincinnati the streets are as much ruled by witches, vampires and werewolves as they are by humans. 'The Hollows' is almost a supernatural version of the ghetto where humans are nervous of putting a foot wrong for fear of being bitten or be-spelled. As the first in the series it does well, laying down key characters and relations as well as setting out the 'rules' of how the world works. Impressive.