Greywalker

Greywalker by Kat Richardson

(Book #1 of the Greywalker series)

Rating: 🍁🍁

Link to Blurb

I keep telling myself that I'm not allowed to start another series until I finish some of the ones I already have on the go. And yet whenever I visit a library and see the first book of a series on the shelf, I cannot walk away and leave it there. Some power compels me to sign it out. Sometimes it works out well and I'm introduced to a series that I really enjoy, as in the case of Rachel Caine's Working Stiff. Other times, I kind of wish I'd been able to leave it on the shelf.

Greywalker by Kat Richardson falls into the latter category. The concept intrigued me, and it didn't disappoint in that respect. It was a refreshingly different, and surprisingly coherent, world. What killed it for me, though, were the entirely two-dimensional characters. Even the main character, Harper, was flat - so flat I still don't know anything about her other than that she has a pet ferret and used to be a dancer. She almost seems like an empty vessel, moved this way or that at the whims of the story with no real rhyme or reason as to why.

The author also spent too much time explaining the workings of the Grey, making it come across as way more complicated than it needed to be. The concept is actually pretty simple, which all the good ones tend to be, and trying to 'elevate' it by going all philosophical or technical isn't really helpful unless it's essential to the plot. Which it was not.