A review by burningupasun
Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison

3.0

Hmmmm. 3.5? There was a lot of potential, but this book was DEFINITELY written in the 2000s. There's some dated stuff, for sure—she mentions someone has an "Oriental" look to them, and there's a line about someone who has a "throaty voice only black men and vampires are allowed to have" which was awkward. I also didn't really like the way she kept reacting to Ivy, her vampire roommate. There were definitely some feelings there (for sure on Ivy's side) and Rachel kept being all "I feel drawn to her, NOT THAT I'M GAY I DON'T THINK, NOPE, DEFINITELY LIKE MEN" and I don't think this is gonna turn into a gay thing, so, it was weird. Also, it's wild that they just decided to completely outlaw bio-med because of one thing that went wrong. I mean, looking at it from a modern lens and the way people reacted (or didn't) to Covid, that would never happen lol.

But I liked the potential and I'm desperately looking for something to fill the Kate Daniels hole in my heart, so I will give the second book a try.