🐈 The Adventures Of A Brave Little Kitty Buddy Rerererereread (TAOABLKBR™) with the IA Addicts 🐈➽ And the moral of this particular rererererereread is: tinmen on steroids and overgrown logs are no match for Kate Daniels, sausage expert extraordinaire. Ha. And now let's dance and stuff. P.S. Nonchalance is the best camouflage for drooling. Just so you know.👋 Until next time and stuff.[December 2017]⚔ The Grand IAA™ KD Buddy Rerererereread Extravaganza (GIAAKDBRE™), aka the yellow brick ro...

Did you guys watch American Gladiators when you were kids? I just looked it up on IMDB, and the show's first run was from 1989-1997.<-----eight years is a LONG time. Long enough for most of you to have watched it at some point during your childhood. B/c really? What's better than ridiculously muscled men (and women) in red, white, and blue spandex with names like Nitro and Laser . . . and MALIBU (Oh yeaaah):GAWD, I love the 80's. And Malibu could totally be Curran in the middle of the magic flar...

Alright, alright. I am now fully entrenched in the "I Love the Kate Daniels Series" camp. Magic Bites was ok, Magic Burns was better, and Magic Strikes had me grinning from ear to ear at the last page. I'm desperate now to read the next one to see what happens with Kate and Curran. The tension they've built up is absolutely delicious. THIS is how you create a relationship in a series. I hate authors that think throwing the two characters into bed with each other right away is either realistic, p...

The Top 8 Reasons why you should drop everything you're doing and grab the Kate Daniels series ASAP (focusing on Magic Strikes)1. The huge variety of mythology: celtic, greek, and now norse and hindu. Honestly, every supernatural creature you've ever heard will make an appearance, preferably soaked in blood and other substances I dare not name, and will deliver you extraordinary threats, unique bloodbath and eventually it will be killed in the most badass way.2. The Midnight Games. An undergr

4.35/5 ⭐This was definitely better than the first two ones and that says a lot because I really liked those too.This book is definitely bloodier than the others so far, messier and also, sadder in its cruelty.My poor baby Derek does not deserve all the things she had to endure in his life! Not at all! He has a pure heart and he just deserves the best!On the other hand - Curran and Kate's relationship seems to go somewhere? Huh? Huh?? I think so, yes. That ending...that's a promise for the future...

All the stars! I enjoyed the first two books in this Kate Daniels series, but Magic Strikes reached new levels of fun and games (of the gladiator death match variety) and just sheer awesomeness.Kate Daniels and her werewolf, werehyena, and other shapeshifter friends get mixed up with some shady goings-on in connection with the Midnight Games, an underground organization that puts on illegal, to-the-death cage fights of the magical variety. Kate's young werewolf friend Derek decides to get involv...

Sixth re-read: 16.01.22 I think this is one of my favorite books in the series. I just genuinely enjoy it. That said, I did skim as I know every little thing that happens... “We have to get the Diamond. And Cesare’s head.”They looked at me.“Why the head?” Doolittle asked.“Because it’s easy to carry and I can torture it for a long time.” And I didn’t just say it out loud, did I? I checked their faces. Yep, I did.“How do you torture a head?” Dali asked.“You resurrect it and make it reli

Reread August, 2021: I loved it even more this time around!! Definitely liked Curran WAY more, too. I don't know what that says about me, but 🤷‍♀️. Quick note though : please don't use food or coffee to describe skin color (only happened once, but ah nope) Original review :I, the undersigned, duly authorized representative of my frowning self, hereby state that all my pressuring friends were right when they declared, and I quote them, "it gets better". This present declaration allows them for ex...

Yes I'm reading the Kate Daniels Series AGAIN and guess what I love it a little more every time. 3rd read and this is still my favorite of the series. So many great moments. This book gets ALL THE STARSKate Daniels Buddy Read/Reread May 25 with the gang at Ilona Andrews Addicts (IAA)Revised Fangirl Review upon the Re-read of the series before Magic Breaks is Released. Magic Strikes has Gladiator style fighting with MAGIC so it is even better, sexual tension so thick you can cut it with a knif...

If you haven't read this series yet, you need to at least read the first three. The first two books were good, but this one is magic! :)Originally read in February of 2015. Rereading with the Ilona Andrews Addicts group.Here's my original review:Best one yet in the series! Have I mentioned how much I love Kate Daniels? Oh yeah, I guess I have, just in every other review of these books. She is so funny and sarcastic. I find myself chuckling while reading. "What kind of shapeshifter has orange f...

I promised myself that I would review this book after finishing it the second time around. I took expansive notes, I copied my favorite quotes down in preparation and I even went so far as to try to start writing a review while still reading. I made several attempts actually. The first was a gushing letter to the author. The second was a serious breakdown of the story and characters that just felt all wrong and the third was a half drunken, rambling poem modeled after “There once was a man from

I can't believe no one mentioned this series to me, recommended this series to me, or spammed my profile with comments and PMs proclaiming this series' awesomeness. They should have. To everyone that didn't, you're on my shit list.Luckily for me, I finally made the decision on my own, like a big girl, and decided to give this series a try.Once I did, it wasn't exactly love at first page, but I've quickly moved into the honeymoon stage. Here's to the honeymoon never ending.Very rarely do I come a...

3.75Well thank God everyone was right! While the first two were intriguing, this one blew them out of the water. Where they sluggishly built up to a semblance of a plot, this one made it clear from the start.Where they were slow with more descriptions than action, this one was a non-stop Rambo movie-with better CGI.Where they had characters and, at times, scenes that just didn't make sense, this one read with perfect clarity leading us down a very dangerous rabbit hole. Again I say cause you mig...

She should have seen this coming!Kate has a number of things which occupy her mind and her life:1. The wellbeing of her new friends:-Jim betrays the pack, -Derek almost gets himself killed,-Raphael is crazy about Andrea and -Saiman has new scary enemies. They talk like human, smell like human, behave like human but what are they really? I am just happy that Kate has true friends finally.2. The dangers that her real family brings:We learn who her biological father is and what the consequences of

5 STARS!!I’ve finally figured out what rates a 5 STAR book from me.When I stay up all night to finish it and suffer the next day at work!Wow, I’m so glad I stuck with this urban fantasy series. I really loved Magic Strikes! It was a fun, entertaining and addicting book to read.Magic Strikes is the 3rd book in the Kate Daniels series.Ilona Andrews really brought her A game with this edition. The 1st two books in the series were okay but Magic Strikes took this series to a whole new level.The book...

Kate Daniels is making a strong case to claim the spot as my favorite urban fantasy (to even be in contention is saying something – this genre is filled with authors that I absolutely love). I can’t believe how much better the second and third books have been. If it hadn’t been for my amazing Goodreads friends urging me to continue, it might have been years before I picked them up again.Why do I now love it so much, you ask? Well, for one thing, the love story turned into a slowly developing seg...

Reread 7/2018I can't believe I didn't review this book back when I read it for the first time, this is definitely where the series began to pick up for me. This reread of the series has reminded me of why I like this series and this author. Kate and Curran are the ultimate slow burn and that couple you find yourself shipping. I only made it to book 4 the first time around, and while I am taking a quick break after this one, I fully intend to finally catch up with this series. It's so good! It's

I love love this series. I'm getting tired of a lot of this paranormal stuff, so many iterations, but this is a GREAT world, GREAT characters, good plotting. The writing is really good, I feel like the hardest thing to do is be SIMPLE, and this author's style is so concise and honest and believable. I really really love this series and would recommend it to anyone, men or women!

Holy mother of cliffhangers, I hate it when they do that!!Okay, you got me. I totally adore Ilona Andrews and wouldn’t fault them for a thing. Part of a Kate Daniels full BR with the IAA, Magic Strikes is the best KD novel yet. Seriously, better than book 2 and WAY better than book 1. There is so much Curran in this book and it is a feast for the mind and soul. There’s enough humor to fill the pages just based on Kate’s reaction to his name. ”So, how are things with you and Curran?”There were...