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katetj's review against another edition
2.0
I'm having trouble getting through this one, its good, just not a big fan of Eve, can't wait to read the next ones though.
melindavan's review against another edition
5.0
I loved getting to know Eve Levine. She knows who she is, what she wants, and isn't afraid to do the tough stuff to get it. She has a strong moral code, even if it's a bit different. Totally loving this series, too. Getting to know all the supernaturals a little at a time is fun. Armstrong's take on angels is a bit different, which I appreciate.
hpitcher15's review against another edition
good. not the best of the kelley armstrong books i've read though
kinx128's review against another edition
4.0
Haunted is the fifth book in the Otherworld series which focuses on Eve Levine. In previous book in the series, Eve has been portrayed as a minor character with her main role as Savannah’s mother. With this book, Kelley Armstrong gives more depth and life to a wonderful character.
When Eve was alive, she was a much feared witch. She traded in the dark arts of magic and she had no time or patience for the American Coven. Now, as a ghost in the afterlife, she has to find a new path. She focuses most of her attention on Savannah; always watching and checking up on her. For all her faults (Eve is far from perfect), she loves her daughter more than anything wants to protect her above all else. Her most redeeming quality is being a mother to Savannah. She sacrificed her own life to help her. By being a mother, Eve is able to expand her morality to make better choices that are not just focused on her. At the end of the book, Ms. Armstrong depicts a strong mother-daughter connection between Eve and Savannah where even death can’t destroy.
Ms. Armstrong loves conflict with her couples which make for a really good subplot to her books. In Haunted, Eve and Kristof have a lot to overcome. Prior to both their deaths, they had a very secret and passionate affair and the result was Savannah. Their love is strong but the trust isn’t. All Eve cares about is the safety of her daughter. Kristof wants her to realize that they can have a life together in the Afterlife. They both have to find their own way in the Afterlife and back to each other. Like all of Ms. Armstrong’s female characters, Eve is strong and fiercely independent; having to rely on someone else is difficult. Eve has to struggle to realize that Kristof will always be there for her and she can have a happily ever after with him. That struggle makes Eve a very fascinating character.
Overall, Eve is a strong, powerful and confident witch. She is not afraid to face a demon or any other supernatural creature to get want she wants. I was really happy that Ms. Armstrong wrote an entire book devoted to Eve. She is a great character with big flaws. However, maybe against her will, Eve is developing a good heart. We are not done with Eve because she will continue to play a part in other Otherworld books including 13.
When Eve was alive, she was a much feared witch. She traded in the dark arts of magic and she had no time or patience for the American Coven. Now, as a ghost in the afterlife, she has to find a new path. She focuses most of her attention on Savannah; always watching and checking up on her. For all her faults (Eve is far from perfect), she loves her daughter more than anything wants to protect her above all else. Her most redeeming quality is being a mother to Savannah. She sacrificed her own life to help her. By being a mother, Eve is able to expand her morality to make better choices that are not just focused on her. At the end of the book, Ms. Armstrong depicts a strong mother-daughter connection between Eve and Savannah where even death can’t destroy.
Ms. Armstrong loves conflict with her couples which make for a really good subplot to her books. In Haunted, Eve and Kristof have a lot to overcome. Prior to both their deaths, they had a very secret and passionate affair and the result was Savannah. Their love is strong but the trust isn’t. All Eve cares about is the safety of her daughter. Kristof wants her to realize that they can have a life together in the Afterlife. They both have to find their own way in the Afterlife and back to each other. Like all of Ms. Armstrong’s female characters, Eve is strong and fiercely independent; having to rely on someone else is difficult. Eve has to struggle to realize that Kristof will always be there for her and she can have a happily ever after with him. That struggle makes Eve a very fascinating character.
Overall, Eve is a strong, powerful and confident witch. She is not afraid to face a demon or any other supernatural creature to get want she wants. I was really happy that Ms. Armstrong wrote an entire book devoted to Eve. She is a great character with big flaws. However, maybe against her will, Eve is developing a good heart. We are not done with Eve because she will continue to play a part in other Otherworld books including 13.
bikes_books_yarn's review against another edition
3.0
This is the 6th book in the Women of the Otherworld series and it was the weakest one in the series I thought. I expected this book to center around Jamie the necromancer and instead it was focused on Eve - Savanah's mother who died a few books back.
The entire story was basically a story of Eve's redemption. She was a "bad witch" in the previous stories and when she was killed she went to some supernatural death realm where she obsessed over her daughter Savanah. The Fate's decided to give her a quest - to capture the evil Nix who escaped from Hell and was killing people on Earth.
I enjoyed the story well enough but honestly I felt it could have been a little tighter. I liked that so many other characters had spots in the story but I really felt this was just not as good a story as the others I had read.
The entire story was basically a story of Eve's redemption. She was a "bad witch" in the previous stories and when she was killed she went to some supernatural death realm where she obsessed over her daughter Savanah. The Fate's decided to give her a quest - to capture the evil Nix who escaped from Hell and was killing people on Earth.
I enjoyed the story well enough but honestly I felt it could have been a little tighter. I liked that so many other characters had spots in the story but I really felt this was just not as good a story as the others I had read.
tessisreading2's review against another edition
3.0
A good read, but some of it didn't make a huge amount of sense, most notably the Nix's
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immediate fixation on Savannah. Additionally, the way that played out was just weird - the Nix was able to find someone in Savannah's orbit who was open to crazy, then got her to the community center when Savannah was there, and then she shot the place up - and Savannah, who we've seen is wildly powerful, is unable to do anything except hide? That just smacks of authorial decision-making that isn't backed up by other text. Plus, honestly, and this is probably a function of now rather than when the book was written, I don't love using "someone shooting up a community center full of kids" as a plot point/plot device in a paranormal fantasy novel. One of the joys of this type of fiction is that you can get the drama and the angst based on, like, spells and werewolves and afterlives, not things that you actually see on the news.vikingwolf's review against another edition
4.0
Since her death, Eve has been wandering about the afterlife searching for a way to contact her daughter Savannah. Now she is offered a dangerous mission to return a dangerous entity to the supernatural prison that it escaped from, and her work brings her into contact with the human world. When the entity knows who is chasing it, it puts Savannah, Paige and Lucas in danger, and Eve requires the help of her dead lover Kristof, Savannah's father, to save their daughter.
It is important that you read book three before you read this review as there are a few BIG spoilers for it.
I liked the chance to read about Eve instead of just being told she was an evil half demon. I liked Eve a lot. She is tough, snarky, kick ass and resourceful and totally devoted to her daughter, and you start to see that she is not as evil as she was originally portrayed. You want to see her kick evil butt. You her to be allowed to be part of her daughter's life, despite the difficulties. I like the relationship between her and Kristof-you wonder how different things might have been if Eve had stayed with him, and you feel sympathy that Kristof died at his daughter's hand in book three. It turns out that he wasn't evil at all, which I hadn't been expecting, so nice wee twist there.
The plot was interesting and fast moving, with lots of fight scenes and challenges to enjoy. I don't want to spoil it but I especially liked the end section of the book. It was a good read and one of the better books in the series. I hope we will be seeing more of Eve in later books. It was also good to know that the story arc was moving on from Paige as I feel there isn't much else that can be done with her and Lucas. I've had my fill of witches thank you and I know we are back to the werewolves in book six and then some Jamie Vegas which is also good. Yea!
As always the cover art was beautiful. I love just looking at this series as well as reading it! Pity they chose to deviate away from it to the crappy covers of book ten onwards! *Pants*
I recommend this to fans of urban fantasy but I do suggest that you read the books in order due to the amount of book hopping these characters do!
It is important that you read book three before you read this review as there are a few BIG spoilers for it.
I liked the chance to read about Eve instead of just being told she was an evil half demon. I liked Eve a lot. She is tough, snarky, kick ass and resourceful and totally devoted to her daughter, and you start to see that she is not as evil as she was originally portrayed. You want to see her kick evil butt. You her to be allowed to be part of her daughter's life, despite the difficulties. I like the relationship between her and Kristof-you wonder how different things might have been if Eve had stayed with him, and you feel sympathy that Kristof died at his daughter's hand in book three. It turns out that he wasn't evil at all, which I hadn't been expecting, so nice wee twist there.
The plot was interesting and fast moving, with lots of fight scenes and challenges to enjoy. I don't want to spoil it but I especially liked the end section of the book. It was a good read and one of the better books in the series. I hope we will be seeing more of Eve in later books. It was also good to know that the story arc was moving on from Paige as I feel there isn't much else that can be done with her and Lucas. I've had my fill of witches thank you and I know we are back to the werewolves in book six and then some Jamie Vegas which is also good. Yea!
As always the cover art was beautiful. I love just looking at this series as well as reading it! Pity they chose to deviate away from it to the crappy covers of book ten onwards! *Pants*
I recommend this to fans of urban fantasy but I do suggest that you read the books in order due to the amount of book hopping these characters do!
charlottenw1's review against another edition
3.0
This wasn't my favourite in the series but I enjoyed it just as much because of the characters. I loved the drama and the dialogue between them. I think the story was missing deeper development in the book to the storyline and the characters on this one.
garnetofeden's review against another edition
4.0
In a thrilling supernatural detective story, Haunted explores a completely different aspect of the Otherworld universe – the afterlife – and presents our most fascinatingly morally-gray point-of-view character yet - Eve Levine.
Eve died off-page before readers even knew about her existence in Stolen, but she has still had a reverberating influence in the lives of our Otherworld characters, particularly Paige and Savannah. Her shade finally made an in-person appearance in Industrial Magic, where Eve agreed to owe the Fates a favor if they sent Lucas back to the real world with Paige. When Haunted picks up, it’s been 18 months since Eve made that deal, and the Fates are about to call in their chit.
The Fates send Eve after a Nix, an unusual escapee from an afterlife prison, hoping that Eve’s more flexible view of morality might finally do the trick for a successful recapture. While the Nixen are usually limited to lending humans the resolve to perform tasks like murder, this particular Nixen figures out in the Prologue how to cross the line to possession. One of my favorite parts of this book is how Eve’s perspective is interspersed with that of the Nix, taking us on a fictionalized tour through the headspace of some of history’s most famous murderesses. Even though Eve is in her afterlife, she still experiences personal growth throughout the book.
While I’m still curious about some of the questions we don’t get answers to, this is the book that most solidly hooked me on the Otherworld series during my first readthrough. Since it’s a new point-of-view character and taking place in the universe’s afterlife, I think that it satisfactorily provides enough background in text that it can be read as a standalone novel, but I think it will be most enjoyed in its place in the overall Otherworld universe timeline.
Rating reviewed 1/20/2023.
Eve died off-page before readers even knew about her existence in Stolen, but she has still had a reverberating influence in the lives of our Otherworld characters, particularly Paige and Savannah. Her shade finally made an in-person appearance in Industrial Magic, where Eve agreed to owe the Fates a favor if they sent Lucas back to the real world with Paige. When Haunted picks up, it’s been 18 months since Eve made that deal, and the Fates are about to call in their chit.
The Fates send Eve after a Nix, an unusual escapee from an afterlife prison, hoping that Eve’s more flexible view of morality might finally do the trick for a successful recapture. While the Nixen are usually limited to lending humans the resolve to perform tasks like murder, this particular Nixen figures out in the Prologue how to cross the line to possession. One of my favorite parts of this book is how Eve’s perspective is interspersed with that of the Nix, taking us on a fictionalized tour through the headspace of some of history’s most famous murderesses. Even though Eve is in her afterlife, she still experiences personal growth throughout the book.
While I’m still curious about some of the questions we don’t get answers to
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(like what did the Nix say to convince Jaime that she was Eve?)Rating reviewed 1/20/2023.