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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. featuring Jaime Vegas, spiritualist  bookswamp | Nov 10, 2009 |  This book focuses on Jaime, the necromancer, and Jeremy, the werewolf alpha. Clay and Elena are present via phone, the latter having given birth to twins and busy taking care of them. Jaimie is bound and determined to convince Jeremy that a relationship will work, and she's using all her wiles to tempt him (some very hot scenes more suited to an Anita Blake book in there :) ). But at the same time, she's signed up for a reality tv show that aims to raise the ghost of Marilyn Monroe. The only problem is that other ghosts keep butting in, and she has to solve a mystery in the backyard of the house she's staying in. I liked seeing things from Jaimie's perspective, she's been in the background, and chafing at it, for a while, though I kept conflating her with the woman in Beyond Black and wondering at her unbridled sexuality. The plot kept me turning pages, and it was good to see Jaimie come into her own. Lots to look forward in the next book ... [ dig dig dig ] hrm, Personal Demon is told from the perspective of Hope, the half demon in this book. I didn't connect with her as much, but the other narrator is Lucas Cortez, so that could be interesting. (  ) silentq | Nov 7, 2009 | Not as good as broken. 2009 (  ) amazon59 | Oct 3, 2009 | I loved this. It added even more information to the background of a lot of the characters and it was a joy to see Jeremy lose that laid-back cool of his to Jaime's teasing. Blinding story! Can't wait for the next one. (  ) AzhriaLilu | Sep 2, 2009 | Opening Sentence: '…Brendan struggled to stay awake…’ The seventh book in the 'Women of the Otherworld' series concentrates on Jaime Vegas, a sexy, redheaded celebrity medium on the threshold of a spiritualist's dream: her own TV show. She and three other professional psychics have been brought to a haunted site for a reality TV show - they are to raise the ghost of Marilyn Monroe. Jaime's co-stars are the very young, and new to the business, Angelique and UK satanic specialist Bradford Grady. The producer thinks that as the TV audience watches the three jockey for prime position, even during a warm-up seance, is good for ratings. Jaime knows and uses a psychic's two primary tools, knowledge (prior facts) and statistical probability, but she has a paranormal gift on her side - she is a necromancer, someone who can reanimate the dead. She makes a startling discovery in the garden - the trapped ghosts of six children, victims of a serial-killing cult intent on man-made black magic. She has to find who the practitioners are and bring them to justice in order to send the kids to their happy afterlife. She is helped by her boyfriend, Jeremy Danvers, the hunky Alpha werewolf. The loved-up twosome are assisted by another werewolf, witches, demons and ghosts with attitudes. I adore this series and many characters in Armstrong's previous novels appear in this one, including the daughter of Lucifer, half demon Hope Adams, who is destined to be the heroine of the next novel, "Personal Demon". It isn't necessary to have read the other books in the series to follow events in this book. It is a paranormal story with 'real' characters, a balance of humor and drama, and with a healthy dose of seductive romance. ( ) sally906 | Aug 9, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0553805088, Hardcover)In her acclaimed Women of the Otherworld series, bestselling author Kelley Armstrong creates a present day in which humans unwittingly coexist with werewolves, witches, and other supernatural beings. Now, in this spellbinding new novel, a beautiful necromancer who can see ghosts must come to terms with her power—and with an evil she never thought possible.It’s the most anticipated reality television event of the season: three spiritualists gathered together in one house to raise the ghost of Marilyn Monroe. For celebrity medium Jaime Vegas, it is to be her swan song—one last publicity blast for a celebrity on the wrong side of forty. But unlike her colleagues, who are more show than substance, Jaime is the real thing. Reluctant to upstage her fellow spiritualists, Jaime tries to suppress her talents, as she has done her entire life. But there is something lurking in the maze of gardens behind the house: a spirit without a voice. And it won’t let go until somehow Jaime hears its terrible story. For the first time in her life, Jaime Vegas understands what humans mean when they say they are haunted. Distraught, Jaime looks to fellow supernatural Jeremy Danvers for help. As the touches and whispers from the garden grow more frantic, Jaime and Jeremy embark on an investigation into a Los Angeles underworld of black magic and ritual sacrifice. When events culminate in a psychic showdown, Jaime must use the darkest power she has to defeat a shocking enemy—one whose malicious force comes from the last realm she expected. . . . In a world whose surface resembles our own, Kelley Armstrong delivers a stunning alternate reality, one where beings of the imagination live, love, and fight a never-ending battle between good and evil. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:22 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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