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This was a really dry book. I mean...wow!So, I originally read this (at the prompting of my BFF) back in 2010, and was so underwhelmed it took me 4 years to pick up the second book. And, no I didn't bother doing a re-read of book 1 beforehand. I was simply so sick and tired of all my friends telling me what a great series I was missing out on, that I just snatched up 2 and dove in.I fully expected to hate it. However, Magic Burns was fantastic, and set me on the path of becoming a rabid fan of n...
Another second chance reread. Another DNF. I can’t believe I put some much work into ranting about this book. All I can say today is that it bores me. Original reviewI've read enough urban fantasy to know that the genre is extremely formulaic, just like, let's say, the genre of historical romance. Basically, you are aware of what exactly you are going to get from the get-go. The difficulty here is to find a series whose standard mix of ass-kicking heroine/amusing cast of secondary characters/lor...
Instagram || Twitter || Facebook || Amazon || PinterestRemember when the Anita Blake series was good, back when she wasn't the Special Snowflake Queen of Sex'n'Superpowers™? (Seriously, have you read the new books? How is her vagina not permanently on fire from all that friction? Also, girl has more special moves than freaking Ditto.) Remember how the series was edgy and erotic and did not condescend to its female audience? Remember how Anita used to kick ass? Remember when there were just T
Sixth re-read: 13.01.22 The thing is, I adore the build-up between Kate and Curran and I love that even though Kate is fucking badass, she still isn't afraid to show fear. I love that she acknowledge the power others has without putting them down and her higher. That said, I am finding it hard to not skim when I re-read this series. It might just be because I remember it too well and it's just too heavy in information to fully enjoy re-reading it. Fifth re-read: 16.07.19 I just had to re-r
5/5/18: Still love it (if that wasn’t evident by virtue of having read it SIX times). If you haven’t read this, you should. Immediately. 📚🖤This is my F-A-V-O-R-I-T-E series. And that's kind of a big deal. For example, if you asked me what my second favorite series was, I'd have to give you a top 5 list. BUT. KATE DANIELS is unquestionably my #1 favorite. I'm rereading the series, b/c the new book is out next Tuesday, and I think this is my fifth (or sixth?) time. I typically can't reread a serie...
“These were unsafe times. But then in safer times, I'd be a woman without a job. The safe-tech world had little use for a magic-touting mercenary like me.” Welcome to a world where magic and technology fight to gain the upper hand. Where necromancers control vampires and every nightmarish mythical creature turns out to be real, eager to devour human flesh.Welcome to Atlanta. The story “My name is Kate Daniels. Greg Feldman was my legal guardian and the closest thing to a fam
4/5 ⭐This was certainly more entertaining than I initially anticipated.At first, it started kind of slow for me, but I've decided that I want to see where everything goes. So I switched to audio and even though I don't really like audiobooks, this one slowly sucked me in. I really love Kate, she's the kind of badass female MC with a sassy mouth and sarcastic comments that you can't help but enjoy throughout the book. I liked the fact that even though she's afraid of things most of the time and s...
re-read: 12/18/20i wrote a full review for this when i first read it in 2017, but deleted it. the most i can remember i said is how i really loved kate's character and felt meh about curran. to be honest, my thoughts still stand the same. i really like kate as a character, truly a fierce and a don't-give-a-fuck queen. i still found curran to be meh. he was funny, i'll say that, but still, i wasn't as interested in him as i wish i was. the character i can't wait to continue reading about though i...
3.5 stars10 Reasons to Love Kate Daniels:1. She doesn't take any crap from anyone.2. She's sarcastic and occasionally rude and always hilarious. Who else would greet a snarly Beast Lord with "Here, kitty, kitty...?"3. She knows all the rules of diplomacy when dealing with shapeshifters, vampires, and other supernaturals.4. She knows how to break all those rules and commands respect in spite of it.5. She admits when she makes mistakes.6. She's comfortable with herself and who she is. But she's lo...
honestly fun. not perfect but i’m marathoning the series so i care less about individual book quality ✌🏻
The first book in the Kate Daniels series! It's pretty good urban fantasy, but the series definitely improves and builds on itself as it goes along, so keep your expectations tempered for the first couple of books, and don't give up, at least until you've read the third book. 3.5 stars, rounding up. In an alternative version of our world, technology and magic are at odds: when a "magic fluctuation" hits, most technological items (cell phones, cars, anything electrical) stop working, but sooner o...
“The bravado is amusing, but it becomes tiresome.” Sigh. Yeah. It’s fun and compulsively readable, but that quote is spot-on quite often.When you think about it, our superpowered snarky mercenary Kate Daniels indeed is 90% defiant bravado, 5% long hair plait, 4% large amounts of alcohol and 1% irresistible hotness for every hot-blooded male, magical species nonwithstanding. And it’s actually fun, in that trope-y “first book in an Urban Fantasy series” way where I can’t help but note all thos
Okay, okay... I admit the book was good and I was terribly wrong for not reading it sooner! All my fears were misplaced!!Possible Spoilers coming up “He finished the bandage and was examining it critically."You know those things are unreliable." His voice held just a touch of reproach.“Eleven out of twelve work fine. I’d say that’s better chances than getting an orgasm with a blind date and women still try.” Kate is brilliant! A little cocky at the beginning of the book but she gets over it a...
Completed an audiobook reread of this book in July. Here are my thoughts on this reread. Most of the meat on the bones is in my first review.I am glad I reread this. It was a great book, but I forgot quite a bit of what happened. It's pretty edgy even today. A hefty dose of the horrific in the type of villain it features and the highly heinous deeds he commits. Kate Daniels is badass. She is snarky, but has the ability to back it up. I enjoyed her dialogue and I appreciated being inside her hea
Sale Alert: This is one of my all time favorite UF series, currently on sale 08Mar20 at amazon $0.99Kate Daniels Buddy Read/Reread starts April 27 with the gang at Ilona Andrews Addicts (IAA)Let the fun and games begin, Yes it is still only a 3.5 star read but I really enjoyed it all over again. There is a little plotting issue that is fuzzy but overall great start to one of my favorite UF series. Only beaten just slightly by books 1-5 of Karen Marie Moning's Fever Series.3.5 Stars Re-read 25Jun...
This is my second time reading Magic Bites, and if I believe the comments my beloved friends wrote 5 years ago, I had written an original (?) review that somehow has been deleted since then. Oh, well. My rating hasn't changed, and 3 stars it is, but I'm pretty sure that I enjoyed it more this time around, even though I truly didn't remember anything from my first read (why is my brain like that, again?). Could it be because I've been obsessed with the Hidden Legacy series for weeks now and so ha...
Ever ventured out into the world of dating and discovered that it was disproportionately populated with assholes? Did you ever look around and say, "Where the hell are all these assholes coming from?"Well, if Curran turned your oven on then the answer is possibly: You!Yes, that's right. Assholes who have the common traits of narcissism, marchiavellianism and pyscopathy according to recent studies, score more with the ladies. It's called the Dark Triad (I know - best name ever) and in many respec...
🐈 The Adventures Of A Brave Little Kitty Buddy Rerererereread (TAOABLKBR™) with the IA Addicts 🐈➽ And the moral of this particular rererererereread is: Kate Bloody Shrimping Daniels = Bloody shrimping QED and stuff.⚔ The Grand IAA™ KD Buddy Rerererereread Extravaganza (GIAAKDBRE™), aka the yellow brick road to Magic Triumphs ⚔Presenting Episode 1, or How Kate Daniels Learned Not all Cats are Kitty-Kitty-Kitties.· Previous rating: 10 stars· New rating: I have been asked by GR support not
I reread this one with the girls at the Ilona Andrews Addicts group. And, strangely, I was slightly disappointed. Why? Well, I know this world and Kate so well now that I expected a magical wonderland when I read it again. But, there were problems that I didn't remember.Problem 1: WorldbuildingThere were info-dumps galore. Pages and pages of them. But, we are never actually given a reason why the world changed from what we know now to a magic-infested one. There was no cataclysmic event, war, or...
Buddy read with Armina, Eilonwy, and Asya. By the time this book was published, Jim Butcher's Dresden Files series was already well-known with quite a lot of writers trying to copy it with the various degree of success. I am willing to bet any money Kate Daniels was inspired by Dresden Files, directly or indirectly. For this reason I will compare these two.Here we have a female protagonist Kate Daniels who happened to be a mercenary who makes her living cleaning up magical problems. You see, she...