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Urban Shaman contains an interesting mix of Celtic gods and Native American dream-walking, which worked a lot better than I thought it would. Joanne Walker is half Irish and half Cherokee, but she doesn't really believe in the lore from either side of her heritage. That is, until she sees a woman being chased by dogs and a man with a knife. Joanne has this overwhelming need to help the woman, so she tracks her down, and is thrust into the paranormal world. The woman, Marie, is being hunted by The Hunt, unless someone can stop it. That someone, of course, ends up being Joanna once her shamanic powers are awakened during a near death experience.

I really liked the beginning of Urban Shaman, even if I thought Joanne was a bit crazy. She sees the running woman while her flight is descending, then has to estimate how far away from the airport she is, and then hire a cab to drive all over town to find her. The trouble was worth it in the end, since she made a new friend in her cab driver, and learned more about herself in the process. I also loved how Joanne didn't know anything about her abilities at all. Normally in adult Urban Fantasy, the heroes already know all about what they can do and then it's put to the test. Well, here we get to learn right along side Joanne, which I enjoyed.

I would have rated Urban Shaman higher except that the last few chapters kind of lost me. I had liked reading about Joanne researching Celtic gods and shamans, so she can figure out what was going on, but then once things started coming together, it became jumbled. She goes to Babylon, but it's not really Babylon, since it's in the dream world, and from there I got mighty confused. I honestly can't explain what went down after that, except that Joanne somehow saved the world. At least for now.

So other than that confusing ending, I thought Urban Shaman was great. I adored Joanne, since she's different, although not all the way into special snowflake territory. I loved Gary, her cab driver buddy! Is it wrong of me to want a romance between them? Probably, and I'm sure it won't happen, but a girl can dream!


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Urban Shaman The Walker Papers Book 1 CE Murphy 9780373802234 Books Reviews

This is the first in a series of books. I have read each book in the series, and found them all to be well done. Each book, except maybe the last one, could be read as a stand alone, but they are more effective when read together as a linear series.
The plot is interesting, exciting, full of mythological and historical references, fast-paced, and has a specific direction.
The characters are well developed. The primary character has internal conflicts as well as external ones, which include multiple romantic tangles and frustrations as well as issues with parental complications, personal identity confusion, and personal emotional rejection of the things that are happening to her as she struggles to deal with new events in her life.
There is a lot of physical action as well as internal turmoil in each installment in the series. There are reasonable explanations for what happens and an underlying premise to explain the parts of the book that are mystical in nature, making them more realistic and acceptable as well as interesting.
There is humor, romance, fun, terror, physical conflict, emotional pain, happiness, secrets revealed and secrets obscured. There is a primary antagonist of great power and horror, and there are unexpected allies with great strength of character.
Overall, a very good read. Thank you for this series!
This is a fairly light read somewhere just above the middle of the pack for Urban Fantasy but it is a fairly entertaining read nevertheless. Enough entertaining for me to want to have a go at the second book in the series although I cannot really say that I am in a rush to do so.

I like the general story but then I always like stories were the main character suddenly becomes aware that there are things that go bump in the night and they are one of these things.

The main character is likable. A bit obnoxious and somewhat stupid at times but quick with her mouth, on the home team and do not hesitate to fight when it is needed. Her taxi driver friend is very likable to the extent that he almost steels the spotlight at times. Even her police station boss becomes, almost, likable towards the end of the book.

The story is quite okay as well as the world building even though it sometimes goes into la la land and becomes a bit difficult to follow. I have to agree with some of the other reviewers that the car analogy used felt somewhat silly. On the other hand the author takes a decent enough amount of time to gradually introduce Joanne’s new powers and the book has quite a few “surprise” moments. That is surprise for the other characters when Joanne’s powers allows her to perform unbelievable feats. I quite like that.

Naturally the book leads up to a big showdown with the bad guy(s) and I have to say that here certain things went a tad too fast. Joanne got a grip on her powers and performed the most remarkable feats after only having acquired her powers a few days ago. Felt a bit too much to me.

Anyway, on the whole I was entertained by this book and, as I wrote above, I will probably have a go at the second one in the series as well.
Urban Shaman contains an interesting mix of Celtic gods and Native American dream-walking, which worked a lot better than I thought it would. Joanne Walker is half Irish and half Cherokee, but she doesn't really believe in the lore from either side of her heritage. That is, until she sees a woman being chased by dogs and a man with a knife. Joanne has this overwhelming need to help the woman, so she tracks her down, and is thrust into the paranormal world. The woman, Marie, is being hunted by The Hunt, unless someone can stop it. That someone, of course, ends up being Joanna once her shamanic powers are awakened during a near death experience.

I really liked the beginning of Urban Shaman, even if I thought Joanne was a bit crazy. She sees the running woman while her flight is descending, then has to estimate how far away from the airport she is, and then hire a cab to drive all over town to find her. The trouble was worth it in the end, since she made a new friend in her cab driver, and learned more about herself in the process. I also loved how Joanne didn't know anything about her abilities at all. Normally in adult Urban Fantasy, the heroes already know all about what they can do and then it's put to the test. Well, here we get to learn right along side Joanne, which I enjoyed.

I would have rated Urban Shaman higher except that the last few chapters kind of lost me. I had liked reading about Joanne researching Celtic gods and shamans, so she can figure out what was going on, but then once things started coming together, it became jumbled. She goes to Babylon, but it's not really Babylon, since it's in the dream world, and from there I got mighty confused. I honestly can't explain what went down after that, except that Joanne somehow saved the world. At least for now.

So other than that confusing ending, I thought Urban Shaman was great. I adored Joanne, since she's different, although not all the way into special snowflake territory. I loved Gary, her cab driver buddy! Is it wrong of me to want a romance between them? Probably, and I'm sure it won't happen, but a girl can dream!