Ever After by Kim Harrison

Authors of series use different methods of catching readers up - a year since her last offering, Kim Harrison does it masterfully – with only a few succinct lines, and as everyone knows, brevity is the soul of wit. Ever after is loaded with wit from page one to the last. Kim Harrison’s Ever After, available now from all Denver’s new booksellers, is the 11th book in her Hollows series. So late in the game, any author might be bored with the subject matter or topic, which condition might likely be reflected in its delivery. Contrary to this model, Kim Harrison is in it for the long haul. “Don’t Panic!” she advises readers. “We’ve got two more Hollows books to go.” This isn't just an action story, The novel’s subtext is fraught with relationship-related trauma involving the newly ambitious Ivy and Jenks, who still live and work in the same church together, but have started decided separation is the answer. Deep down, heroine Rachel Morgan feels the changing dynamics. This story is packed with two-fisted emotional heartache, binding readers tp the fictional characters affected. Besides Trent’s relationship with Ivy, you don't really expect Trent and Rachel's relationship to move forward easily, do you? Complicating matters, an unknown someone has been kidnapping Rosewood babies. Yes. And, lest we forget the paranormal origin and destination of all these young—the Ever After starts shrinking in accord with Rachel's ley line, which has a black hole-like event horizon that is sucking the Ever After infinitely tinier. All demons will die except day-walkers if this is allowed to happen! Herself a day walker, Rachel is classified in the same group with Ku'sox, an insane demon released from penance inside the St. Louis arch in a previous episode of the Hollows. If the Ever After is allowed to collapse upon itself in this manner, there will no longer be demons or magic of any kind on this world. And without the Ever After, how can the Interlanders possibly survive the effects of humans?
The only girl in a large family of boys, former tomboy Kim Harrison invented the first Brigadier General Barbie in self-defense. She shoots a very bad game of pool and rolls a very good game of dice. When not at her keyboard, she enjoys lounging on the couch with a bowl of popcorn watching action movies with The-Guy-In-The-Leather-Jacket. She plays her Ashiko drum when no one is listening, and is hard to find when the moon is new.