Ever After

The Hollows, Book 11

By: Kim Harrison

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 18 hrs and 36 mins

Publisher's summary

Audie Award Finalist, Paranormal, 2014

The ever after, the demonic realm that parallels our own, is shrinking, and if it disappears, so does all magic. It’s up to witch-turned-daywalking-demon Rachel Morgan to fix the ever-after before the fragile balance between magic users and humans fails.

Of course, there’s also the small fact that she caused the ley line to rip in the first place, and her life is forfeit unless she can fix it. And that the most powerful demon in the ever after - the soul-eater Ku'Sox Sha-Ku'ru - has vowed to destroy Rachel, and has kidnapped her friend and goddaughter as leverage. If Rachel doesn’t give herself up, they will die.

Forced by circumstance, Rachel teams up with elven tycoon Trent Kalamack - a prospect fraught with dangers of the heart as well as betrayal of the soul - to return to the ever after and rescue those she loves.

Both worlds teeter on the brink, one on a possible interspecies war, the other for its very existence, and it’s up to Rachel to keep both from being destroyed.

©2012 Kim Harrison (P)2012 HarperCollins Publishers

another great one

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. another great story with lots of twists and turns by Kim Harrison

Love the whole series! And the narrator!

I love this series! Kim Harrison is a fabulous writer. Her characters grow in each book.

I love Kim Harrison books.

I absolutely love the way she brings you into her world one character at a time.

Each book in this series is better than the last

Rachel is accepting being a witch/demon. As always she is fighting against the odds. This book has Rachel and Trent and Al working to save the Ever After. Much more of the Gargoils in this story - get to learn some of Biz's background and family.

Rachel keeps going after men she can't have or who aren't good for her. Wish she'd accept that she has feelings for her roommate and relax. That would make a great next story.

Good book

Any additional comments?

Very good series and book! Plenty of witchy and vampire action. Character development and world building is phenomenal. The narrator did a great job too!

Romance

I dont see Why Rachel and Trent cant be lovers. It could be Epic for all that stand in the way.

Another Tantalyzing adventure

If you could sum up Ever After in three words, what would they be?

non stop action

What did you like best about this story?

Her continuous search for her limits of magical abilities and whether or not romance is in store

What about Marguerite Gavin’s performance did you like?

Ms. Gavin is so talented that you can individually detail each character.

Any additional comments?

Can't wait for the next one

Saving the Ever After and the world - Wow!

It has been a long wait since Perfect Blood. I read it at least four times in print and as an audiobook. When Ever After arrived, showing up simultaneously on my Kindle and in my Audible account the day before yesterday, I was dizzy with excitement. Finally!

Casual readers for whom books are just another way to pass the time will never understand the particular excitement of receiving a long-awaited book. This was a joyous event, a happy day. Finally, the next installment of the Hollows.

The thrill isn't gone, not by a long shot. I had just completed "A Memory of Light," the fourteenth and final book of Robert Jordan's (now Brian Sanderson's) Wheel of Time, so I needed to travel from one magical realm to another. It is a testament to my mental agility that I can slide so swiftly between planes of unreality and nary miss a beat.

I always read the audio version first, then read the book in print. Margeurite Gavin is so much the voice of the Hollows I can't imagine anyone doing a better narration. She was perfect as she has been in previous books.

I want to avoid spoilers since the book was released just two days ago and many fans haven't read it yet. I'll update it later when more people have had a chance to read it. In the meantime, I'm not going to tell you what happens, but I will tell you how I feel about it.

I had been enjoying the book. I was missing Ivy -- though not as much as I thought I would -- until I got to the second part of the book. At that point, I went from enjoying it to being enthralled.

After another chapter or two, Ever After had become so exciting and I was so gripped by the story, I trotted out to the living room and announced: "This book is so good you aren't going to see me again until I'm finished." I believe I babbled a bit more, then went back to my office and back to the world of magical Cincinnati, the saving of the Ever After, the world, and the shaping of Rachel Morgan's future.

Two hours later, the book ended.

I sighed, sitting there, absorbing the silence, unwilling to let go of the magic and bump down to my real world. So I stayed there for a while. Then I turned the computer off. It was late, nearly seven and past dinner time. I turned the oven on -- frozen pizza would have to do -- too late for anything more complicated.

Ever After was the most satisfying reading experience I've had in a long time. It scratched all my literary itches. There was magic passion and battles. There was a blooming of love and hope, the sadness of loss, and powerful demons to vanquish. I mourned the fallen, exalted for the living and dreamed about the what might lie in the future.

If a witch, an elf and a demon can work together to save the world, what other dreams may come?

Trent

Any additional comments?

Honestly, can anyone get enough Trent? The answer is no. Thank goodness Kim Harrison agrees. Kim Harrison's tomato-fearful world is back in gloriously full description which enables the reader/listen to really empathize with Rachel Mariana Morgan. Great job to writer and narrator.

Finally!

First off, thank you for dropping the price of this series to 1 credit {I know this was publisher setting the price, not audible's fault}. It should never have been a 2 credit series.

Next, I have to admit, I've dropped this series twice in the past only to be sucked back in. Surprisingly I think this is the best of the series. Rachel actually had some growth. Little to no inappropriate lusting of *many* other characters during battle scenes. No strong *too stupid to live* moments for Rachel. Some wonderful growth in the secondary characters. A lot of new angles to explore in the world with the reveal of some information on the war between the demons and the elves. And also BLESSEDLY little Ivy time. Angsty Vamp plots are LONG over. Please let Ivy go. One of the best things about this book was so little Ivy time.

Characters that had some really good and informative page time, Trent, Quen, Biz {and other Gargoyles!} Jenks, Al, and Newt.

For the first time I had no problems with Marguerite Gavin's performance. In the past she had a odd way of emphasizing certain words in sentences. It worked for Jenks but not with the other characters. That seems to have stopped.

I had several people ask me as I was listening how I felt? For the first 2/3 of the audio I said, "I don't hate it yet" Finally, by the end, I could actually say I liked it.