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Slightly more interesting than book one, but the Harper character still disappoints. I just can't believe in Harper's unwillingness to learn more about the Grey--she is an investigator, for goodness sake, yet she displays very little curiosity about phenomena she is fated to live through. I also don't understand why this obviously assertive woman would meekly accept whatever conditions her client sets. And then there is the boyfriend that she cannot bring herself to confide in (she doesn't even try, preferring instead to repeatedly p*** him off). The university events aren't believable either--this study would never get IRB approval, let alone grant money (perhaps most readers wouldn't mind that, but I did). This book gets very close to being an "idiot" plot, where the plot wouldn't happen if the protagonist didn't behave like an idiot. Quinton is the most interesting character yet we see very little of him. At least Harper has a cell phone now and not that anachronistic pager. I don't think I'll be reading any more of this series--too many other books on my "to read" list. ( )

I had to push myself through this books, I don't know why, I just didn't enjoy it as much as I enjoyed the first. I was slightly distracted. However I still feel that Harper's story is one worth reading and I love the charachter development. ( )

In Poltergeist, we find out Blaine is still resistant to learning and practicing her powers. For example, she’ll look at a person’s aura to get more information about them but she’s not sure what the colors actually mean. As the only known Greywalker there isn’t a Greywalking for Dummies book to consult. A professor at the local university has put together an experiment to see if a poltergeist can be created. The results have recently gotten stronger and the professor thinks someone in the group is trying to manipulate the results. He hires Blaine to investigate. Before long one of the experiment participants ends up dead. Was it the poltergeist or someone else who committed the murder? Blaine tries to complete her case without getting caught in the middle of the police investigation of the murder. The same cast of secondary characters appears in this book and a few new ones are introduced.

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I ripped through the first book in this series, Greywalker, which affected me very strongly on an emotional level. This book I enjoyed, but it was a wholly different experience. The emotional reaction was muted, but the intellectual stimulation greater. In this book a psychology experiment that showed that convincing a group of people that a ghost exists would allow them to create manifastations of a ghost... and they do, but one of the members of the group dies. Harper Blaine, who can see ghosts in the Grey, a dimension next to ours, knows that the group is affecting and being affected by Grey phenomena. Can she stop other killings?

I found the experiment a fascinating one. Recommended. ( )