Waking the Witch by Kelley ArmstrongMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Synopsis:The orphaned daughter of a sorcerer and a half-demon, Savannah is a terrifyingly powerful young witch who has never been able to resist the chance to throw her magical weight around. But at 21 she knows she needs to grow up and prove to her guardians, Paige and Lucas, that she can be a responsible member of their supernatural detective agency. So she jumps at the chance to fly solo, investigating the mysterious deaths of three young women in a nearby factory town as a favour to one of the agency’s associates. At first glance, the murders look garden-variety human, but on closer inspection signs point to otherworldly stakes.
Soon Savannah is in over her head. She’s run off the road and nearly killed, haunted by a mystery stalker, and freaked out when the brother of one of the dead women is murdered when he tries to investigate the crime. To complicate things, something weird is happening to her powers. Pitted against shamans, demons, a voodoo-inflected cult and garden-variety goons, Savannah has to fight to ensure her first case isn’t her last. And she also has to ask for help, perhaps the hardest lesson she’s ever had to learn.
Having first met Savannah in Stolen as a teenager. I have been waiting for her book. A witch with powerful supernatural gifts, inherited from her dark and dead witch mother, she is now grown up and working with Paige and Lucas in their supernatural detective agency.
I wasn’t sure how I would like her book…but ...hey… I did…a lot!!!! She’s now a favorite character of mine in this series. She has certainly grown up…
“Tall and slender, she wore a midriff-baring black T-shirt, red slim fitting jeans and knee high boots. Her dark hair was gathered back in a hastily tied knot. Oversized dark shades partially obscured her face but showed a strong, fine bone structure, worthy of a runway model.Getting an insight into Savannah’s history made me warm up to her.
I would have liked to have seen more of a romance between Savannah and Adam Vasic, the half-demon who is helping her…what a gorgeous guy….
“We’d been inside for less than five minutes before every girl there had checked out the new arrival. Adam isn’t drop-dead gorgeous. He’s cute, though. Seriously cute. Short, wavy dark blond hair, a perpetual tan, and an athletic build. He looks like is a guy that a girl could talk to, someone who’d flirt and make you laugh and look you in the eye while he’s doing it. In other words, he looks like exactly the kind of guy he is, and girls love it.”
The new character, Kayla is really interesting and hopefully we get to see her in the next books.
Most of the plot has a resolution in the end but there is a cliffhanger….which I can’t wait to find out more in the next book!
Kelley Armstrong has written such a spell-binding and exciting series and I cannot get enough!!!1
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