This is my favorite book from The Walker Papers series. I like this book better because it seemed like Joanne has more of a Social life and starts reflecting on past mistakes. She finally admits that she has a thing for her boss Morrison, but also goes out on a date with Mark and schedules a future date with Thor (Edward). So it makes the story line a little more exciting. I can't wait to see who she will fall for in the next Book "Walking Dead".

If you want to read this book you need to read them in order.
Book 1: Urban Shaman
Book 2: Thunderbird Falls
This is book 3: Coyote Dreams ( )

These books are addictive. I have a to-read pile longer than my arm, yet I had to buy the 2nd and 3rd books in this series in quick succession. That, and I read through this one in little over a day. I couldn't put it down. Thank goodness a 4th book comes out later this year.

Joanna Walker, reluctant shaman, is having a really bad day. She awakens to find a strange man in her bed and then gets a phone call saying one of her dear friends is in a coma. The next day is even worse - more of her friends won't wake up, and Joanne keeps falling into shamanic trances at inconvenient times. Her spirit guide, Coyote is still missing, and the dreams get more and more bizarre. It's time to save the world again - but the greatest challenge may be to save herself. ( )

This Book picks up from Thunderbird Falls and you quickly get back into Jo's chaotic world, and again a world destroying disaster is on it's way and Jo can save it. This book felt like it was leading to the final conclusion which I hope is the next book. I really enjoyed this book and I really hope that Jo's life gets better and happier and will read the next books, only beacuase I want to know what happens. ( )

Loved, good fast read. Thrilling from beginning to end. However I was a little exasperated by the ending. How come she can't have her cake and eat it too? ( )

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The close of the first three Joanne Walker novels by C.E. Murphy, featuring a Seattle policewoman who is also a somewhat unwilling shaman. I think that if you like Buffy, you will like these books; there are obvious parallels in the heroine's resentment of the way her mystical powers have turned her life upside down, and there is a common thread of wit and not taking the supernatural too earnestly while at the same time doing it seriously enough that we believe the situation. I read the first three stories in the series (Urban Shaman, Thunderbird Falls and a separately published novella) in the wrong order, but still enjoyed them; I wouldn't recommend starting with Coyote Dreams, though, as it is heavily dependent on what has gone before. ( )