Review by Vicky London
Underground by Kat Richardson is the third book in her urban fantasy Greywalker series. Here’s the back cover blurb:
Harper Blaine was your average small-time PI until she died–for two minutes. Now Harper is a Greywalker, treading the thin line between the living world and the paranormal realm. And she’s discovering that her new abilities are landing her all sorts of “strange” cases.
In the cold of winter, Pioneer Square’s homeless are turning up dead and mutilated, and zombies have been seen roaming the streets of the Underground–the city buried beneath modern Seattle. When Harper’s friend Quinton fears he may be implicated in the deaths, he persuades her to investigate their mysterious cause.
Harper and Quinton discover in the city’s past a pattern to the deaths that points to an inhuman killer stalking the modern citizens of the Underground and raising the walking dead in it’s wake. But when Harper turns to the city’s vampire denizens for help, they want nothing to do with her or the investigation.
For this creature is no vampire. Someone has unleashed a monster of ancient legend upon the Underground, and Harper must deal with both the living and the dead to find the creature and put a stop to it…unless it stops her first.
Kat Richardson’s books tend to be very smart urban fantasy. Harper is an independent young woman who seems very confident in herself if not her abilities. Her new skills as a Greywalker have been a major adjustment to say the least. It’s hard to have a normal boyfriend when he doesn’t know that you can walk among the dead. Luckily Harper has a friend like Quin who knows all about the creepy side of Seattle. The plot of Underground is very complicated and at times the history of the Underground can seem like a major info-dump. She cleverly tries to disguise it as part of a historical tour but I found myself getting bored with all the facts and just wishing for a cliffs notes version. Harper’s romantic life takes a bit of a turn and she finally gets the romance she deserves. Overall it’s a solid story and if you want to know more about the history and Native Americans of Seattle, this book is for you.
The previous books in the series are Greywalker (Book 1)
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