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Living with the Dead (Women of the Otherworld, Book 9) | 
 enlarge | Author: Kelley Armstrong
Publisher: Spectra
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 3205
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.4
ISBN: 0553806645
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780553806649
ASIN: 0553806645
Publication Date: October 21, 2008
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They’re smart, sexy, and supernatural. They’re the men and women of the Otherworld—a realm of witches, ghosts, and werewolves who live unseen among us. Only now a reckless killer has torn down the wall, trapping one very human woman in the supernatural cross fire.
Robyn Peltier moved to Los Angeles after her young husband’s sudden death, trying to put some distance between herself and her memories. Though she’s still grieving, the challenges of her new life as the PR consultant to Portia Kane—the world’s most famous celebutante wannabe—can sometimes be amusing, even distracting. But when her client is gunned down in the back room of a nightclub, Robyn is suddenly on the run as the prime suspect in the murder. And as more bodies pile up around her, it seems like only Hope Adams, Robyn’s best friend, and Hope’s somewhat spooky boyfriend Karl are on Robyn’s side. Hope Adams follows the kinds of stories whose headlines scream from supermarket checkout lines. But the difference is that Hope’s stories are even weirder—and they’re all true. Though determined to help Robyn, Hope knows it’s only a matter of time before her friend is caught. But it’s not the police Hope is worried about. For Robyn has gotten herself in the middle of a turf war between two powerful Otherworld cabals who’ll spill any amount of blood—human and inhuman—to protect what they consider theirs for all eternity. And the only way Hope can keep her friend alive is by letting her enter a world she’s safer knowing nothing about.
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 living with the dead November 23, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
not as good as all the rest of armstrongs books on women of the otherworld.
 Kelley Armstrong Hits a Home Run..... November 23, 2008
I've read all of Kelley Armstrong's books. I've loved most with just a couple of exceptions. "Living With the Dead" was up there at the top, I enjoyed it as much as her first, "Bitten." I'm surprised at the negative reviews, I thought this was just fantastic, so well-written and absorbing. I guess to some degree it's just taste. I didn't came for the previous book "Personal Demon" and it was one of my husband's favorites.
Another great book November 20, 2008
This one starts a little slow. But once you get used to humans being involved in the otherworld, it's a great read. Hope has really come into her own, she is one of the most interesting charaters. Kelley has really shown her ability to create believeable races from the many things that go bump in the night.
 Delightfully surprised November 16, 2008
I have not been able to read the last couple of books in this series, even tho Bitten was one of my all time favorite books. This is the first book of the last installments in this series that I have been able to finish. Contrary to most of the reviews, I enjoyed the multiple POVs and third person narration. I felt intellectually challenged by this book. Maybe it was just good timing, but I thoroughly enjoyed this book.
Not her best work November 14, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Living with the Dead is a story of Hope and Karl, appealing characters from early Armstrong novels. But really it's not. It's really the story of Robyn, a non-supernatural human friend of Hope's who has lost a beloved husband in a terrible incident and who is floundering.
Armstrong has an engaging writing style and I really enjoy most of her books but this one was scattered between too many voices and too many POV. Unfortunately the predominant voice in the book is that of Robyn. And I found Robyn so darn annoying I just wished someone *would* kill her. She epitomizes the "Too Stupid To Live" heroine. She makes dumb choices again and again. At first, she realizes she's being dumb and it's brought up "gee, that was a dumb thing to do." But she never fixes it. Then she goes right on to do yet another stupendously stupid act. Time and time again the people trying to help her (who she *knows* are trying to help her) tell her to stay in a certain place or do a certain thing, and time and time again she goes sallying forth anyway only to (you guessed it) get in trouble. I mean me, If I was Hope and I had a friend like that I'd have to whack her head on a table a few times to get her attention.
I won't say it was totally awful, it wasn't. There were some nice pieces. I would have been able to forgive the chaos if it wasn't for Robyn's idiocy. I didn't throw the book against the wall. But I'm glad I got it at the library and didn't pay for it.
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