AN EASY DEATH - Charlaine Harris


The world is different. Texoma is its own country and wizarding magic is a known ability (though not a very well trusted one).

Lizbeth "Gunnie Rose is young but she's already gotten herself quite a reputation for fierceness and fairness. When she commits to a job she'll see it through no matter what the cost. Things will go south (so to speak) when she takes a job escorting a couple of Russian wizards who are looking for a man - the only man on earth whose blood can save their tzar. But there are others out there determined to stop the wizards from reaching their goal. Young Lizbeth will be tested to see her mission through.

Author Charlaine Harris is an accomplished storyteller.  She showed us that with her Sookie Stackhouse series. Here she latches on to another young, strong female in a familiar paranormal-accepting world.

The adventure in this particular volume isn't the most interesting of Harris's stories I've read, and, having just recently read book five in the series it definitely pales in comparison, but it does serve to establish the character and the rules of this new world.

There's plenty of gun-slinging western-style action here, but fans of the paranormal (and expecting same because of the author) won't be disappointed. There is also some sex, but unfortunately here in the first book we have a rape on the page.

I already know that I like at least one book later in this series and now I look forward to catching up and reading the series in order.

Looking for a good book? An Easy Death is the beginning of a new series by Charlaine Harris which might be best described as Sookie Stackhouse meets The Wild, Wild West.

I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher, through Edelweiss, in exchange for an honest review.

3-1/2 stars

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An Easy Death

author: Charlaine Harris

publisher: Gallery/Saga Press

ISBN: 9781982144678

paperback, 336 pages

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