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Magic Rises

Ilona Andrews

4.28 AVERAGE

adventurous medium-paced
adventurous fast-paced
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creativeflow's review

4.25
adventurous dark funny fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Graphic Audio edition is brilliant. I still find Curran's voice jarring, as it's just too growly for me. And early on there's a fair bit of fast paced background music that just doesn't work for me at all, and pulled me out of the story some. But aside from that, I love it. I've no idea how many times I've read this book and series now, but it doesn't get old.
adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
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miraclesnow's review

5.0
adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Maybe my favorite of the series? It was the most drama-filled and the one in which I felt the most connected to the main theme. Also, thought she was left in the background for the rest of the series, Desandra was a great character to introduce into the secondary character fold.
adventurous emotional mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous emotional funny tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

I started reading the book but felt the pace wasn't agreeing with me and decided to wait for the audio version. I'm glad I did because much of the plot devices didn't convince me, and I am not sure I would have finished the book otherwise. There is a lot of action, and the plot moves forward, we meet new magical beings and European clans, but the plot felt very fabricated and it put me off.
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mariathelibrarian's review

3.25
adventurous fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
fast-paced