The Future is a Trilogy; The Past is a Series

Poltergeist. Kat Richardson. December 20, 2010

This is the second book in the Greywalker series, following Greywalker.

Seattle PI Harper Blaine is hired by a university professor to look into a research project he’s conducting. He has a group of volunteer test subjects who are working together to try to create an artificial poltergeist. It’s supposed to be an investigation into the psychology of a group, but something else seems to be happening. The professor has been referred to Harper as an investigator who is good at figuring out strange things.

I enjoyed this book at least as much as the first one. The plot is interesting and fast paced. I found the concept of the psychological experiment to be fascinating, all the more so because it’s based on some real experiments conducted in the 1970s. I also enjoyed reading about Harper’s growing acceptance of her power as a greywalker.

The only frustration I had with this book was the difficulty I had getting a real feel for Harper herself. I suspect it’s a drawback of writing in the first person. Unless the author finds some way to show us the character through someone else’s eyes, we only really know her from her own perspective. That tells us a lot about her, but something is still missing. Still, that’s a very minor complaint. Overall I loved the book, and went right on to read the next in the series.