Search - Haunted (Women of the Underworld, Bk 5)

Once again as the narrator changed, I found myself taking a while to warm up to Eve (and missing both Elena and Paige). Perhaps because Eve had been seen as a slightly bad person in the other books, it was hard at first to want to like her and want to hear her story. But I did find myself warming to Eve and liking her story and feeling awful about her situation. And I shed a few tears at the end. Once again, Armstrong does a great job with descriptions (although there are some points where I almost wished it wasn't a great job - in the minds of killers and when Eve goes to the hell where the murderers are, especially the cave *shudder*).

Best so far in a terrific series (Women of the Otherworld). Eve Levine (half demon, witch ghost) teams up with the love of her life and afterlife, Kris and a down to earth angel to track down and recapture a demi-demon who has been feeding the need for chaos through serial murders. The characters (as always) are very real, the plot is well done and the ending is satisfying. Note to new readers - this series is FAR better if started at the beginning, due to the large cast of rotating characters.

My 3rd Favorite Kelley Armstrong book!
I'm a huge fan of the Kelley Armstrong books. But more so the werewolves. I wasn't as much interested in Dime Store Magic and Industrail Magic (though i did relate more to Paige than Elena). Haunted got me excited about the Kelley Armstrong witches again. There was even a cameo of one of the dead werewolves from Bitten (Daniel if you didn't catch it). Haunted was fast paced and action packed all the way through. In Stolen we heard of Eve Levine from the point of view of others. Others who saw her as a dark magic practitioner and evil. But looking through her eyes, I got a whole new view on Eve Levine and I liked her a lot more. This was a stay up all night read. I liked it a lot and highly recommend it.

I can't really say I was disappointed because I was expecting not to like this story after I read the synopsis on it, which is why it took me so long to acquire this book, though I breezed through her others. I love her werewolf stories (Bitten and Broken), I like the witch stories a little less but they were still good, but this one with the ghosts and the angels, demons, fates, etc. etc. in the ridiculous afterlife - well, it just had no structure and was basically a free-for-all where the author can cheat by inventing what she likes to get her characters in or out of a jam. I like Kelley Armstrong but if she tries to write another book in the same setting, I'm not reading it.

I enjoyed this one much more than the other two about witches. Eve was a fun character and all of the adventures she had to get the Nix were exciting. And while the ending was happy, it was sort of sad too... But, overall, this one was much better than the ones with Paige for a narrator. I'm VERY excited for the next one... a return to the werewolves!

Although I have loved this series, I was not very excited to begin this 5th book. I didn't feel like I knew Eve at all, nor did I want to. I wanted more of Paige and Elena! I started this book only to get it over with so I could hurry on to book 6.

However...as usual, Kelly Armstrong delivered a thrilling page-turner. I warmed to Eve and enjoyed her story immensely. Was it my favorite in the series? No. But I'd still call it another hit by Armstrong.