I can totally understand being unwhelmed by Dead Until Dark. I personally enjoyed it (the first one especially) but I can easily see why other people won't.

And Dead Witch Walking is a BLAST. Ivy has grown a lot on my over the series. When she's first introduced I didn't really get her, but as we learn more about how much she's been tweaked by her upbringing it makes SO MUCH sense.

I loved the mink and rat fights sequence in DWW, that whole section of the book. Sometimes I get tired of Rachel's "yeah, whatever, I'll handle it" attitude, but she's a very sympathetic character and I love how much guts she has.

*nods* And I do like that she'll get in over her head and in trouble and that when she pulls her own ass out of the fire she's earned it, you know?