No Humans Involved by Kelley Armstrong and Laural Merlington

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No Humans Involved
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Updated on 12-28-2008.

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Publisher: Tantor Media; Unabridged edition (June 1, 2007)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1400104416

ISBN-13: 978-1400104413

Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 5.4 x 1.1 inches

Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces ()

From Publishers Weekly
In Armstrong's assured seventh Otherworld paranormal romance, her first in hardcover (after Broken), pretty Jaime Vegas, a 44-year-old necromancer who can reanimate the dead, faces her biggest career challenge yet—freeing the trapped ghosts of six murdered children. Thankfully, Jeremy Danvers, Jaime's hunky and very Alpha werewolf boyfriend, tags along for this hair-raising ride. Jaime, who has made a living onstage and off by her ghost-whispering skills, is in L.A. as one of three celebrity mediums participating in Death of Innocence, a TV special that hopes "to raise the ghost of Marilyn Monroe," but instead uncovers a serial-killing cult intent on man-made black magic. Seeking justice for the lost children and punishing the dark arts practitioners don't prevent Jaime and Jeremy from finding time for love. Armstrong deftly juggles such creatures as werewolves, witches, demons and ghosts with real-life issues. The only disappointment? Marilyn's ghost never shows. (May)
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From Booklist
Fortysomething Jaime Vegas is a sexy, redheaded celebrity medium on the threshold of a spiritualist's dream: her own TV show. She is one of three professional psychics brought to a haunted site for a reality TV show and charged with raising the ghost of Marilyn Monroe. Obviously, this is Jaime's shot at stardom. Her costars are drawling, up-and-coming starlet medium Angelique and UK satanic specialist Bradford Grady, and watching the three one-up each other as they jockey for prime position, even during a warm-up seance, is good show-biz comedy. Jaime knows and uses a psychic's two primary tools, knowledge (prior facts) and statistical probability, but everything depends on her authentic, natural necromantic gifts. But when she finds spirits in the site's garden with whom she cannot commune despite her superpowerful silver ring, she fears she's out of her league (she's not wrong) and flies to Portland for help. Paranormal and show-business power struggles make for hard-to-put-down entertainment. Whitney Scott
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Reader Reviews
This review is from: No Humans Involved (Women of the Otherworld, Book 7) (Hardcover) Like another reviewer on this page, I had my review reported unfit for Amazon by someone and subsequently removed along with all the helpful votes it had earned. This has happened three times now. Whoever is doing this "reporting", please stop. I know the Amazon guidelines very well and this review follows them-if it did not the nice people who run this website wouldn't have allowed it to be posted in the first place. If you have a specific issue to take up with me or my review write a comment attached to my review or email me but please stop trying to delete this review. Amazon reviews works because everyone can post their opinion. "No Humans Involved" is the turn for Jamie Vegas, our favorite celebrity Necro, to narrate. She was actually a cool choice for a first person speaker because it made the book really different to have a heroine who can't do anything to protect themselves physically. No super strength or wolf-shape like Elena, no spells like Paige or Eve, and definitely no Angel sword. Sometimes this is annoying because Jamie spends a while whining about always having to be rescued, but it a way it's more relatable, because hey, what reader could take on a werewolf or demon and expect to come out alive? Jamie is more human than the others. And she's definitely the funniest narrator yet. But she's still way not normal. This book takes place on a TV shoot to raise the ghost of Marilyn Monroe, involving Jamie and two television spiritualists (no necro power for them.) At first Jamie thinks this will be a great way to get her own TV show, and Jeremy, the werewolf pack Alpha agreed to come out to LA from New York to visit, raising her hopes for a romantic relationship with him (no, in this book, in the beginning, they are not dating.) But while doing a TV summoning, Jamie comes across some real world ghosts, not that that's weird, they're all over the house, but these are different-she can't see them, or hear them really, but they can touch her. Remembering the situation in "Industrial Magic" (vampire ghost) she decides something must be done and discovers these ghosts are children-something which according to the laws of the underworld shouldn't happen. And they became trapped on earth by humans using magic-with no supernatural blood involved. So something must be done. Can Jamie find out what humans have discovered the ways of magic, save the ghost kids, do something more than just flirt with Jeremy and manage to pull of this TV show to her advantage? Read the book to find out. It's chopped full of the usual action, adventure, horror, suspense, laughs, nifty trivia about the otherworld and of course, sex. Unfortunately because of the series is finally popular enough, it's only out in hardcover, but it's not a waste of money to buy it now. With the "Women of The Otherworld" series having officially become large at six books total, the author, I believe, fell pray to a trap that commonly hit popular writers, especially those writing series. Now hitting these pitfalls makes this in no way a bad book, as you will see by reading the rest of this review, but it does mean that sadly, "No Humans Involved" is not as strong as the previous novels in the series. First of all it's clear it was written too quickly. Normally for Kelley Armstrong this isn't a problem because she can churn out mini-stories on her website that fill in the blanks between books and they're great-but this book has things happen that leave you wondering when the characters planned on doing on that. Like, when did Jamie tell the backyard ghosts about the trapped child ghosts? And when did they decide to help? It never says, and according to Jamie herself, and all the past books, ghosts just aren't very altruistic. In accordance with this parts of the book and the ending just seemed too neat and tidy; it really needed more filling out. There were too many helpful coincidences, escape routes...bla bla, you get the picture. Also there were some things mentioned about Jamie's past that were like little blips in the book that I would have loved to know more about. It seems like in "Bitten" we got Elena's life story, and we know a lot about Paige, but this book barely scratched Jamie's surface. Other than that, this was another great book. I do believe we even got introduced to our next narrator, who will take book #8 (when it comes out) on a decidedly dark turn. I do hate to give a Kelley Armstrong novel anything less than five stars, but this was just written too fast and it didn't have enough depth-still, though for a book with so much to do with death, it's a live wire. So in the end, four stars. Recommended (obviously) but read the others first. We have come to the point in the series where you'll just be lost without starting earlier on.

No Humans Involved
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Updated on 12-28-2008.