Buying Every Which Way But Dead (The Hollows, Book 3)

I really like the whole world that Kim Harrison has created for these books. She manages to get a nice scene set and create a nice mental picture for you without droning on like some authors tend toward. I'm not going to give a rundown of the plot because pretty much everyone on here has already done that. However, I will say that the one flaw with these books, which is a personal pet peeve, is that the main character is weak. Not as in she has no power or can't do anything but sort emotionally or mentally, in the sense that so far in the last three books she never actually uses her potential power and even when she does fight or use her magic she's constantly worried that she may have hurt someone. I mean seriously, Francis would have been happy to see her dead and made it obvious but she was constantly trying to keep him from getting hurt and then was horrified when he died. At this point she's not ever actually done anything impressive. If it wasn't for her friends she would have been dead a long time ago. She just doesn't come across as being very bright at all. I mean really, she goes into the lair of a Master Vampire without any actual plan and then when she gets lucky enough to stop him from killing her she only wants to put him in jail knowing he can pretty much have her killed whenever he wants? Real bright... Seriously, at least have the main character save her own butt now and then without it being just pure luck...Get more detail about Every Which Way But Dead (The Hollows, Book 3).