Janice Y. (jai) reviewed on 5/25/2007 + 310 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 10

Harper Blaine is a private investigator, and gets attacked by someone she was interviewing for a client. She dies for 2 minutes before she is revived but after the attack she has been changed irrevocably. Now she sees mist and grey things and because the core of her is practical - she hates it and has huge problems accepting that she has become a greywalker. She begins to meet people connected to the Grey (described as the mist separating life from death) - a witch, ghosts, vampires. Much of the book has Harper continuing her investigations - a lot of phone calls and pounding pavement, which made the book feel very slow though I'm sure it is a more realistic portrayal of her job than if it went faster. Also much of it is Harper trying to figure out her new ability but no one knows exactly what she can do - much of the help she gets is obscre academic theory - which was somewhat boring to read and not too helpful. The continued stress and the "Grey" wears Harper down and she often talks about how tired she is - which was beginning to bug me toward the end although I understood why. In all - the book felt slow but the last 3rd is where it picked up. The last 50 pages were the most interesting - when the set up at the beginning finally paid off. I felt some satisfaction finishing it and I think that the rest of the series should be very good now that Harper's abilities have become more fully established (though she is still mostly clueless). There are a couple of small lose threads which I expect to be resolved in the next book - although - I really wanted to know what happened to the man who attacked her in the first place - I don't think that was ever mentioned!

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