Rachel kämpft nicht nur in Cinci, 22. September 2008

Rachel ist diesmal nicht in den Hollows unterwegs, dadurch kommt es zu weniger Szenen mit Kisten und Ivy, aber dafür lernen wir mehr über Jenks, seine Kinder und über Nick. Auch wenn das Buch nicht im normalen Umfeld spielt, macht es nicht weniger Spaß. Mehr Infos von bisher eher unbeachteten Nebencharacteren ergänzen das Wissen des Lesers. Auf jeden Fall interessant und wie immer spannend bis zum Ende.

       45 Kinder, 45 Kinder!!!, 28. Mai 2008

HalloWer denkt sich mitten in eine Serie einlesen zu können, irrt hier, aber nicht leider, sondern zum Glück, denn wer die drei Teile davor nicht gelesen hat, hat einiges verpasst! Die Geschichte wird immer dramatischer, in jedem Buch wird eins draufgesetzt, das ist der Wahnsinn! Hab dieses jetzt fast durch und der 5. Band lacht mich auf meiner Fensterbank schon an.Lesen!!!!

      Zu viel Gejammer, 25. Februar 2008

Also sie hat ein paar wirklich gute Ideen, aber der Fluß der Geschichte wird durch ständige Wiederholungen und u.a. durch zuviel "ach ich bin doch eine gute Hexe" "ach arme Ivy" und ein dutzendmal "Jenks looks yummy" unterbrochen. Auch ihre Wortwahl könnte etwas abwechslungsreicher sein, als "shiver of fear/angst".Um 100 Seiten gekürzt wäre es wirklich gut.

       Fourth in the Rachel Morgan series and a wild ride!, 24. Februar 2007

I have very much enjoyed the first three books in the Rachel Morgen series (Dead Witch Walking, The Good, The Bad and the Undead and Every Which Way But Dead) and this fourth instalment is just as good. In some ways its actually better as now we finally get explained in print some of whats been going on in the minds of our characters and Rachel finally begins to realise some things about herself.In A Fistful Of Charms Rachel finds herself in a werewolf fight with a woman, Pamela, because of her link with David the werewolf. As soon as shes won that one she finds herself in yet more trouble with werewolves but this time 500 miles away. Nasty Nick, her former boyfriend, has stolen something important to the werewolves, and has used Jenkss son Jax to help him with the theft. Rachel decides to go and rescue Jax whos in danger of getting too cold which can be very dangerous for a pixy. She manages to persuade Jenks to team up with her again but in order to keep him safe from the cold she makes a demon curse to grow him to normal human size.As in the other books, Jenks is just a brilliant character. Once he becomes a six-foot-four man who looks his age (eighteen) Rachel finds herself seeing him in a rather different manner (and rather envying Matalina, his wife, although possibly not for their 54 kids). Jenks and Rachel, in their usual rather disorganised and rather overcomplicated way, go to rescue Jax and end up also rescuing Nick and finding themselves in a whole heap more trouble. And when Ivy appears on scene to help out but instead massively ramps up her relationship with Rachel it seems that Rachel is beginning to learn to understand herself, her need for danger and excitement in her life, even if it leads her into trouble.This book explores the relationship between Rachel (straight) and Ivy (gay) a lot more closely. I suspect in the next book that Rachel and Ivy will become more than just friends and I, for one, will find this disappointing if thats the case (lets face it, Kisten is almost perfect why would Rachel want anyone else?) And for those Kisten fans out there, although hes in this book and he and Rachel still seem very close, he doesnt pay a significant part in the story. A shame. At least Nasty Nicks true nature becomes more apparent.If you enjoyed the other books youll enjoy this one just as much and perhaps more as we finally get a little more explanation of why Rachel behaves as she does and why Ivy is so hung up. I still find that they seem to choose amazingly complicated ways to go about things it makes for a fun plot but it seems a bit unlikely someone would come up with these wacky plans but theres a lot of humour in this book and Jenks continues as a brilliant character and one for whom we can all feel some mild swoonage. Read and enjoy!

       Immer besser!, 30. Januar 2007

Mit jedem Kim Harrison - Roman finde ich ihre Figur Rachel Morgan sympathischer. Figuren wie Jenks sind mir mittlerweile so ans Herz gewachsen, dass ich das Gerede in diesem Band über die geringe Lebenserwartung von Pixies wirklich nicht hören möchte. Harrison schreibt - für Nicht-Muttersprachler - anspruchsvoller als z. B. Mary Janice Davidson in ihrer "Undead and..." Serie, dafür ist Rachel Morgan auch um einiges lebensechter (und unnerviger) geraten.