NOTE: I save five stars for classics or any kind, either ones that history calls classics (and I agree) or books I still feel strongly about many years after first reading them. Four stars out of five is generally my highest rating the first time around.
Magic Slays by
Ilona AndrewsMy rating:
4 of 5 starsKate Daniels is a scarred, PTSD heroine, and she may earn your respect before you like her. But the city of Atlanta, devastated by the Burning that announced the return of magic to the world, rises like a phoenix from the ashes, painting a post-apocalyptic world unlike any other. We have a group reminiscent of the Mafia that controls most necromancy and creates most vampires – soulless, mindless killing machines that are piloted by necromancer-navigators. We have wer-animals of many types banding together for strength and stability, a quasi-military order enforcing their humanity as they live by their own Rules. We have groups who kill out-of-control magical creatures – some of their members are mercenaries, maybe part of a guild, maybe not, and others are Knights and knights-in-training, members of still another organization that tries to put names and rules on the new world order. Some of these characters are human...or mostly human. We don't see very many people not touched by the brush of magic.
( Continued )Recommended to all lovers of action-packed urban fantasy, but this is probably not the best place to start the series. Things have finally gotten weighty enough that you’ll get more subtext starting with an earlier book.
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