Book Review -- Magic Bites

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Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Call this 3.5 stars – Kate Daniels is such a scarred, PTSD heroine in the beginning that she’s not likable. 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.

Kate Daniels tried to be a Knight and could not live with obedience (or so she tells others) and now survives as a mercenary. But when someone kills her former guardian, a Knight who kept trying to lead her back to the Order for her own protection, Kate must work once more with the Order of Merciful Aid – even as she burns bandages with her blood on them, and keeps her own antecedents a dead secret.

This is definitely urban fantasy, not paranormal romance. I don’t like the Beastmaster, Curran, the almost primeval leader of the shape shifters who is much too interested in Kate Daniels. I only like Kate slightly better. But I think this is a series to continue with. I like the second book a solid 4 stars. So if kick-butt heroines are your cup of tea, I’d say give Kate Daniels a try. She may be just the slap in the face you need!







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