![]() ![]() Rachel is an urban fantasy heroine, so naturally her childhood had some imperfections-most importantly, a potentially fatal disease and some genetic experimentation, which have had an ever-increasing influence on the rest of her life. ❖ Rachel Mariana Morgan is a powerful earth witch in Cincinnati, a city divided into the human side north of the Ohio River and the Hollows (the supernatural, or Inderlander, side) south of the river. Relationships also became a big part of the urban fantasy story in this series-Rachel is not a loner but has a full cast of friends, partners, and sometimes-allies with which to interact. In addition to the modern not-quite-kickass heroine, the Hollows series expanded the urban fantasy multiverse to include demons and elves, pixies and gargoyles, and a complex balance of power that, eleven books in, has yet to be unraveled. ![]() Suddenly, the humans are outnumbered and the different species are left vying for power. ![]() Rachel’s a witch living in a futuristic Cincinnati after the Turn-when a genetically engineered virus distributed through tomatoes killed a great many humans but left the Others, aka the Inderlanders, unscathed. ✥ The not-quite-kickass protagonist took another twist with 2004’s Dead Witch Walking, first in Kim Harrison’s Hollows series featuring Rachel Morgan. ![]()
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