Greywalker (Greywalker, Book 1) | 
 enlarge | Author: Kat Richardson
Publisher: Roc Trade
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  83 reviews
Sales Rank: 48831
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.9
ISBN: 045146107X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780451461070
ASIN: 045146107X
Publication Date: October 3, 2006
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Condition: Has remainder mark and/or slight shelf wear- never read- shipped in bubble wrap
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Product Description
Harper Blaine was slogging along as a small-time P.I. when a two-bit perp's savage assault left her dead. For two minutes, to be precise. When Harper comes to in the hospital, she begins to feel a bit ...strange. She sees things that can only be described as weird-shapes emerging from a foggy grey mist, snarling teeth, creatures roaring. But Harper's not crazy. Her "death" has made her a Greywalker-able to move between our world and the mysterious, cross-over zone where things that go bump in the night exist. And her new gift (or curse) is about to drag her into that world of vampires and ghosts, magic and witches, necromancers and sinister artifacts. Whether she likes it or not.
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 Lackluster December 21, 2008
The plot was interesting and the action fast paced, but the Harper Blaine felt flat - I didn't get any sense of who she was as a person, just that she was tired and scared all of the time. There was very little character development all round. Secondary characters were one-dimensional stereotypes. There was a good sense of atmosphere - very film noire feeling - but that doesn't make up for the lack of characterization. One small thing that really irked me was the fact that all the characters had pagers. I don't know why, but this threw me off. Was this book written in the early 90's? Only doctors use pagers now! Get these poor people some cell phones.
 Interesting premise, excellent audiobook narrator December 19, 2008
I enjoyed the different approach to the supernatural the author came up with as the premise for this story. For those reviewers who felt that the protagonist spent too much time being ill, etc., I could put myself in her place dealing with this strange and frightening situation that no one can actually guide her through. Until she "learns the ropes," she will get "beaten up" so to speak -- realism in a fantasy! I'm assuming that in the next two books and beyond, Harper will get better at negotiating the two worlds she inhabits. I did enjoy her cleaverness in manipulating the local vampire political scene so that the original "bad guy" may not have been so much bad.
Since I "read" all my books as audio books, the real purpose of this review is to talk about the audio CD. I notice Amazon only has it available as an audio download; I rented mine from Recorded Books. Mia Barron is the narrator and this is the first time I have heard her. She is absolutely excellent, and I can't wait to hear the next book, also done by her. Her Irish accent was perfect, English accent for the crazy DJ was perfect without being over-the-top, and all other characters had their distinct voices. For the audio books addicts among you, she's really a wonderful find.
 Angieville: GREYWALKER November 1, 2008
Once again, the cover struck me first. She looked interesting to me. Like she knew things. And I liked the slanted city she leaned up against, looking like a character in its own right. I love it when a particularly city or a particular building is a main character in a story. The whole thing is that much richer for it. The good news is I wasn't wrong. Harper Blaine does, in fact, know things. Things she'd rather not know, as it turns out, but know things she does. And the Seattle of GREYWALKER is a dark, wet, teeming character, and you can tell Kat Richardson knows her way around the place and loves it for all its dark, wet, teemingness.
Harper Blaine is a P.I. who finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time and winds up dead. For two minutes. After she comes to in the hospital things are....different. Suddenly she sees shadows and outlines of figures who aren't there. At least not on this plane. And just like that, she's forced to accept a whole new worldview. One in which the creatures of nightmare and fairy tale drift along beside the living. They exist in an alternate plane known as the Grey and Harper is a greywalker, a mortal who can cross planes. What that ultimately means is up to Harper to find out. Fortunately, she has a few good friends to help her figure things out, including a witch, a ghost, a couple of vampires, and one extremely tall auctioneer with silver hair.
In case this description sounds like the last urban fantasy you read, let me dispel that thought. GREYWALKER reads like Raymond Chandler meets Charlaine Harris' Harper Connelly mysteries. The emphasis is on the noir, hardboiled private investigator about town. At first, the paranormal events are almost an afterthought. They come to play a much larger role as they begin to alter Harper's life, but the mystical never overshadows the gritty, real feel of the book. It was a nice surprise, different from what I was expecting, and I enjoyed getting to know Harper and how refreshingly adult she was about things--her job, her relationships. Not always trying to prove her worth to anyone and everyone who crosses her path. I look forward to following this series as it develops.
Good read for fans of Jim Butcher October 4, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a solid beginning for a very good series. "Greywalker" introduces you to your heroine Harper Blaine and the world of the Grey where shadows of history walk amongst us as "ghosts" without our knowledge. The Paranormal exists on a separate plane that few can see and even less enter and interact. Harper, a Private Investigator, finds that she can do just that after a brief brush with death. This is a tale of Harper and her journey to understand, accept and embrace the new world she is thrust into. She meets interesting people along the way (Vampires, Witchesand a necromancy, oh my) This book is well written but can at times get fairly scientific in its explanations of the physics of the Grey. Makes for a slower read since you have to "think" about what the characters are talking about. However, this by no means takes away from the story and plot line. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes a mystery with alittle paranormal mixed in.
 Well..I finished it September 18, 2008
I guess I just didn't get it, because I really didn't like this book. There was so much going on, and nothing was connected with anything else that was happening. There are still some parts of the book where I'm not even sure what happened. The main character, Harper Blaine, wasn't likeable at all. She whines and refuses to do anything to help herself. I love reading, and I love paranormal stories, but I had to force myself to finish this one....and I really wish I hadn't.
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