Waking the Witch

Title: Waking the Witch
Author: Kelley Armstrong
Series: Women of the Otherworld (Book 11)
Genre: Paranormal


Savannah is no longer the spoiled, unpredictable young girl that she was when we first met her. She is now 21 and just trying to prove that she can take on her own case.

While Lucas and Paige are on vacation in Hawaii, Savannah gets a call from a friend of Lucas' about a case that he wants someone to work on. Savannah jumps on the chance to prove that she can work on the case alone.

She finds a small rural town in Washington, where there have been 3 murders over a large year span and what looks like some supernatural occurrence. Savannah gets a little more then she bargains for with a witch hunter, Druid, more witches and a type of "religion" that borders on supernatural. She is there to find the killer, without getting killed herself.

I really enjoyed seeing this part of Savannah. She is a grown woman and trying to make her way in the world and not be exactly the same as the do-gooding Paige and Lucas or her dark magic Mom. She shows a lot of her personality and her struggle to become her own person, a person I think I would like to hear more about.

I did not, however, feel like this was part of the Women of the Otherworld series. There was little to no interaction with many of the characters that we have known and read about for so long. The only person we see is Adam, and I love the connection that is growing between the two. I'm interested to see what's next after the cliffhanger at the end of the book. Spellbound is Book 12, released in 2011. It is again going to feature Savannah.