Name: Living with the Dead
Rating: 3.733333333333333 (15 reviews)
ISBN: 9780553588545

Kelley Armstrong

When PR representative Robyn Peltier is framed for murder, half-demon reporter Hope Adams joins forces with necromancer homicide detective John Findlay to clear her name, taking on a ruthless killer who will stop at nothing.

Living with the Dead

Living with the dead

Briar's Reviews

Kelley Armstrong has always been one of my fave authors - Bitten, Canadian, Virals - she's just the best! I've yet to read a book by her that I didn't enjoy, and then I picked up Living with the Dead.

Robyn comes to LA (her husband has recently passed away), and she gets herself into a pickle. She's a PR consultant for a Paris Hilton like celebrity, and suddenly her employer is murdered. And then someone else is murdered. You'd think that's fine and dandy, right? Nope. Because she fled the scene both times. Robyn works with Hope Adams (who we've seen before, if you've read this series) and this crime may get solved!

To start off, the book isn't bad by any means. I am in love with Clayton and Elena, and Paige and Lucas, and Jaime and Jeremy. Those are my Otherworld couples! Especially the latter, seriously - super hot. I highly recommend their books! I never cared much for Hope and Karl, and I didn't really care for Robyn. I felt like I didn't have a real connection with them so I just didn't want to read it. I wanted to see my faves! That's the problem with these types of series when there's a large array of characters with their own books - we won't enjoy all of them.

The story itself is super engaging and really fun to watch. Hope has such an interesting personality with her demon present, so she's a unique character to follow. I also thought the entire murder mystery was cool as well. Story wise, I think this book is amazing! It has Kelley's amazing writing and an awesome plot. This story had my attention the whole time and I devoured the book in a night. It is VERY VERY VERY good.

This book is more action, thriller and mystery than romance. I miss the sexy romance of the other Women of the Otherworld books, but maybe Kelley is taking this series in a different direction. I'm very curious as to how this series is going to play out...

Overall, this wasn't my favourite Women of the Otherworld book. I hope the next books pick up and I see more of my faves about! It's still a great book, but is more for thriller lovers than the fans of the romance in this series.

Two out of five stars.

The men and women of the Otherworld – witches, werewolves, demons, vampires – live unseen among us. Only now a reckless killer has torn down the wall, trapping one very human woman in the supernatural crossfire. Robyn moved to LA after her husband died to try to put some distance between herself and the life they had together. And the challenges of her job as the PR consultant to a Paris Hilton wannabe are pretty distracting. But then her celebutante is gunned down in a night club, and Robyn is suddenly the prime suspect. The two people most determined to clear her are her old friend, the half-demon tabloid reporter Hope Adams, and a homicide detective with an uncanny affinity for the dead. Soon Robyn finds herself in the heart of a world she never even knew existed – and which she was safer knowing nothing about . . .

Wren Hardwick

This is definitely my least favorite of the series, though I never thought to stop reading and it had my attention ENOUGH. I wasn't like dying to know more like most of Kelley Armstrong's books.



We have way too many points of views in this one. We are used to having only one, and the last book we got two which was a nice change of pace, but we got.. four or five if I am not mistaken. And only one of them we knew before this book (Hope) and even though I still felt like she was a new character to the series. 

What I did love about this book is that human's get involved. That's right, a human gets to see what is behind the supernatural curtain. We also meet someone who knew they had special powers (necromancer) but never knew of the community of supernatural beings until he met some of our friends in this series. 

Hope's best friend Robyn is in some deep crap. Like she is wanted for murder. But she didn't do it. Enter best friend, chaos-loving-half-demon Hope and her boyfriend werewolf-jewel-thief Karl and a detective that can see dead people. 

What I really REALLY enjoyed was exploring clairvoyance powers in Armstrong's world. We have seen and learned about werewolves, witches, necromancers, warlocks, half-demons (even though there are a lot more types to discover!) and even magicians, but not enough on the rare supernatural-beings that are called clairvoyant. They are a necessity in this book and I absolutely loved it.

All in all, I am ready to get back to werewolves in the next book. Elena and Clay are my first love.

Living with the Dead

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