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Haunted (Women of the Otherworld, Book 5) | 
 enlarge | Author: Kelley Armstrong
Publisher: Orbit
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  65 reviews
Sales Rank: 500927
Media: Paperback
Pages: 528
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.3 x 1.4
ISBN: 1841493414
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781841493411
ASIN: 1841493414
Publication Date: May 26, 2005
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Eve Levine - half-demon, black witch and devoted mother - has been dead for three years. She has a great house, an interesting love life and can't be killed again - which comes in handy when you've made as many enemies as Eve. Yes, the afterlife isn't too bad - all she needs to do is find a way to communicate with her daughter Savannah and she'll be happy. But fate - or more exactly, the Fates - have other plans. Eve owes them a favour, and they've just called it in. An evil spirit called the Nix has escaped from hell. She feeds on chaos and death, and is very good at persuading people to kill for her. The Fates want Eve to hunt her down before she does any more damage, but the Nix is a dangerous enemy - previous hunters have been sent mad in the process. As if that's not problem enough, it turns out that the only way to stop her is with an angel's sword. And Eve's no angel...
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 Eve Rocks! November 7, 2008
In the fifth book of The Women of the Otherworld series, "Haunted," we get to travel the afterlife a bit with Savannah's infamous mother, Eve Levine. When the Fates send her after an escaped ghost/demon killer, Eve must make some hard choices between the life she left behind and the future she can yet have.
This book was bloodier than the previous ones and even bothered me at times. However, I still really enjoyed it. Eve has been somewhat of a mystery until now. Painted by some as the Devil herself, we saw in the last book that she really wasn't so bad. Now, in this book we can get to understand her a bit better, as well as the various levels of the afterworld which hopefully will come to play in future novels. I would recommend this book.
other world books September 29, 2008
Greetings,
Bought this book for my wife see is getting deeper and deeper into this series it's great, and the service from the seller was A1
WARNING: This Book has Strong Female Characters April 23, 2008
Eve Levine is a dead witch. Because she has broken all the rules, she expected to end up in a Hell for witches. But, to her surprise she finds herself in a supernatural holding place, if it is not heaven... it is definitely not hell.
Of course, Eve needs to be a superpower. She thwarts the Fates whenever she can... In the process, she finds herself indebted to them (the Fates). That is when the real story begins. Eve as supernatural bounty hunter for evil supernaturals.
Anyway, the story and the character are enjoyable. I started keeping Armstrong's books so that when I am out of reading material, I can re-read them. So sad. LOL
 Haunted April 14, 2008
Eve Levine is a ghost. In "Industrial Magic" she makes a deal with The Fates and, if Paige and Lucas are returned to life, she'll owe The Fates a favor. In "Haunted," they've decided to call it in.
What they want seems to be impossible. The Nix, a demi-demon, has accidentally been let loose in the world. For, oh, several hundred years. She's been nearly caught but has escaped. Eve's task is to track her down and bring her in, so to speak. She's scared witless but she isn't alone: she has the help of Kris (who is her daughter's father and the love of her life) and Tsriel, an angel.
The Afterlife, according to these books, is very different from what most of us think of as "Heaven." Eve encounters various things: a pirate's enclave and a school for poltergeists, for example. There is a version of what hell must be like but, in this case, was reserved for the worst among us: serial killers and like that.
The story goes back and forth between Nix and Eve, which can get confusing. I had to look back a few times to remember who this person or that person was. I have to say, as you can probably tell by the lackluster thoughts here, I didn't really care for this book. I am a big fan of Armstrong's but this one just didn't thrill me.
On the plus side, we see more of Savannah, of Paige and Lucas (who got married between Industrial Magic and Haunted) and Jaime. Since Jaime is going to have her own book coming up, that's a good thing.
 Forced myself to finish it July 19, 2007
I have enjoyed the Women of the Otherworld series thus far. I read them as quickly as I can so I can pass them off to our nanny, who is also a big fan. However, this book was a chore to read. The ideas were so far fetched and bizarre. Child ghosts being raised by ghost parents who couldn't conceive? Ghost hockey leagues? Magic being used in the afterlife? I realize that it's a bit contradictory to love books about werewolves, witches and vampires and call this far fetched, but it was just so hard to do much more than roll my eyes and trudge through.
I would have skipped it if I weren't concerned I'd miss something from the other story lines. This was just such a disappointment from an author I have been very impressed with. I have moved on to Broken and am already back in love again, though.
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