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4.28 AVERAGE
4.28 AVERAGE
Kate and Curren are officially a favorite book couple.
This book tested their relationship in new ways, but they still talked about it openly at the first real opportunity. That's one of the many things I love about them.
Exciting story, Hugh is a complex adversary who is easy to love and hate.
Another thing I like about this series is that it is a true series, each book stands alone reasonable well while building on prior stories and working toward a larger story.
This book tested their relationship in new ways, but they still talked about it openly at the first real opportunity. That's one of the many things I love about them.
Exciting story, Hugh is a complex adversary who is easy to love and hate.
Another thing I like about this series is that it is a true series, each book stands alone reasonable well while building on prior stories and working toward a larger story.
Sixth in the Kate Daniels urban fantasy, alternate world series featuring a fearless Kate who's terrified of crossing her father's path.
"An Ill-Advised Rescue" is at the end of the story. I could swear this is an outtake from an earlier installment, but my notes are lousy. It's Saiman's kidnapping, the end of which results in that huge favor he owes Kate.
My Take
Wow. I'm totally torn on this one. There were some amazing twists in this with that surprise ending. And don't forget the new cast of troubles that Andrews has thrown in. It'll be interesting to see where the authors go with this new ally(?).
On the other hand, there was a juvenile quality to this, especially with Lorelei, whom Desandra has diagnosed as a sociopath. And I think she's right.
It is funny that a general rule is to keep tension up by preventing a love resolution. This is so not a problem with Kate and Curran! They're tension together, and when the Pack and all their alphas are brought in, the tension simply increases exponentially. Then bring in their world and enemies...well…
And...shockingly, most of the Pack has accepted the oh-so-human Kate. It's that particular state that will create problems with the European Packs, as they won't take her or her relationship with Curran seriously. The insults are constant! And Aunt B isn't helping when she raises Mahon's enmity toward Kate.
Oh, oh. That panacea has got Kate thinking babies!
Go, Andrea!
Hmm, Kate worries about her and Julie's dreams intersecting sounds like foreshadowing for the next Kate Daniels installment.
In spite of all her issues and behavioral problems, Desandra turns out to be a lot more interesting—in a positive way—than I had expected.
Curran does tick me off, however. I don't like this game he's playing. And I don't think the Andrewses did an adequate job of working this angle. It's too surface. Too much tell. Andrews keeps telling us about Curran's wrongful behavior, but they don't show us anything. My whole attitude about it was oh, Kate, wait and see. Ya just know he's got a plan because there's no tension to this part of the drama. She knows what a schemer Curran is. Even the insults are too little girl. Kate doesn't even really buy into what Hugh is saying. She knows he's playing her. The authors don't make this believable. I did like the explanatory scene. Still too surface-y, tell-y, but Curran's reasoning was lovely. Hugh's soliloquy on his and Kate's training. Their need for the kill. Again. All surface. The Andrewses never dive down to any depth.
Gawd, Hugh is too creepy in this with total contempt for the shifters! And a very good actor...ick. We find out what he wants in a partne...and in a one-night stand.
Ah, jeez, that moment...that moment when Doolittle freaks about how Kate saved him. The pain it causes her. It made me want to cry. And the enlightenment Doolittle came across? That provoked the attack? Minor in its confused wording. Those blood samples, though. That would be reason enough to attack him.
Once we learn the truth about Christopher, I'm very surprised that Hugh let him go so easily.
Yeah, all in all, a confused tale with odd loose ends that I suspect the traumatic events were supposed to overshadow.
The Story
Two of the teens in the Keep go loup, and Curran can only get enough for one dose of panacea to help the girls. Then an offer for 10 drums of it come in. A deal with all sorts of traps built into it.
Three warring packs claim they want Curran to guard the girl because of his strength—and they don't trust each other. Not with so much riding on whose child is born first. And the offer of panacea ensures that Curran can't turn it down.
Not with all those hopeful mamas fearful for their children.
It doesn't take long before the trap falls. Whether the Atlanta Pack can escape is the question.
The Characters
Kate Daniels, the Consort, is the daughter of a powerful godlike being, who will seek her death if he finds her, and a powerful witch who did love Kate. Her entire life has been spent preparing to battle her father, and she has found love where she least expected it. Slayer is the saber she carries. Julie is her foster daughter, rescued back in Magic Burns, 2. Due to events in Magic Slays, 5, Kate must train Julie and use great care.
Curran Lennart is a First, who leads the 1,500-strong Pack of Atlanta (500 of 'em live at the Keep), the Beast Lord. A shifter more powerful than your average run-of-the-mill shifters. We know he's in love with Kate.
Maddie is a werebear and Julie's best friend; Margo is Maddie's twin sister. Meredith Cole is the girls' distraught mother.
Doc Darrien Doolittle is the Pack medmage. Tony is one of his assistants. Jennifer Hinton is the alpha of Clan Wolf. Pregnant. Terrified of this reminder of what could happen to her unborn child. Aunt B is the alpha for Clan Bouda and a power to be reckoned with. Jezebel and Barabas, a weremongoose, are a couple of her misfits whom she's assigned to help Kate. Ethan is Barabas' significant other. Raphael is Aunt B's son; he's engaged to Andrea Nash, a former Knight of the Order. Jim Shrapshire is in charge of Pack security; Keira is his sister (whom we've not met before). Mahon Delany is the alpha for Clan Heavy and the Pack Executioner. George, short for Georgetta, is Mahon's daughter as well as the Pack's clerk of the court. Derek Gaunt is Curran's aide and Kate's friend. One about whom she worries. Eduardo Ortega is a werebuffalo and part of the team going to Europe.
Mike Wilson is alpha of Ice Fury, a strong pack in Alaska. His ex-wife, Genevieve de Vos, took their daughter, Lorelei, back home to Belgium with her.
Saiman is a frost giant and polymorph who owes Kate a huge favor. He buys and sells intelligence and desperately wants to get Kate into his bed simply because she's refused him. After events in Magic Bleeds, 4, Saiman is terrified of Curran.
Astamur is a hunter who lives in the mountains. Gunda is his Caucasian shepherd [dog]. Atsany is the race to which the "hobbit" belongs; he won't give up his name as it could give Kate or Astamur power over him. Suliko is a descendant of a long line of dancers, people who have danced for the kings of Georgia.
Jarek Kral is a nasty, crude alpha of the Obluda Pack—or, as Aunt B puts it, he's a troglodyte—with an obsession about leaving a legacy. Kind of hard to do when you keep killing off your kids… Desandra is his only child, a daughter, and he uses her like a boomerang. Renok is one of his bodyguards.
After failing to "sell" her to Curran, he pushes her onto Radomil with the Volkodavi, then yanks her back to marry her off to Gerardo Lovari of the Belve Ravennati, from whom he yanks her back. What can I say? Boomerang. Gerardo and Ignazio are the sons of Isabella and Cosimo Lovari of the Belve Ravennati.
Hugh d'Ambray is Kate's father's warlord, and he's already suspicious of who Kate is. Voron was Roland's warlord and Hugh's father figure before he was bedazzled by Kate's mother and ran off with the pregnant Kalina. Roland is Kate's father, the father of the People, a wizard-king, and has lived for thousands of years. Christopher is a slightly nutty human whom Hugh has caged. And Kate's humanity is gonna pay off big time!
Lord Megobari is the human hosting Desandra's stay along with the three European Packs. Hibla is his chief of security. Demet is a healer sent by Megobari.
Going loup is a one-way ride to a type of shifter insanity. Once a shapeshifter goes loup, he or she is put down. The People are a nasty version of vampires in this world.
Lamassu are
Volodja is one of Hugh's men, and he has information for Kate. The Iron Dogs are Roland's elite unit.
The Cover
The cover finds Kate with a questioning look on her face and surrounded by fire with a snarling Curran in his lion form behind her left shoulder.
I suspect the title refers to Astamur and the atsany and the others whom Astamur says exist in the world, those who have reawakened from their long sleep, for Magic Rises.
"An Ill-Advised Rescue" is at the end of the story. I could swear this is an outtake from an earlier installment, but my notes are lousy. It's Saiman's kidnapping, the end of which results in that huge favor he owes Kate.
My Take
Wow. I'm totally torn on this one. There were some amazing twists in this with that surprise ending. And don't forget the new cast of troubles that Andrews has thrown in. It'll be interesting to see where the authors go with this new ally(?).
On the other hand, there was a juvenile quality to this, especially with Lorelei, whom Desandra has diagnosed as a sociopath. And I think she's right.
It is funny that a general rule is to keep tension up by preventing a love resolution. This is so not a problem with Kate and Curran! They're tension together, and when the Pack and all their alphas are brought in, the tension simply increases exponentially. Then bring in their world and enemies...well…
And...shockingly, most of the Pack has accepted the oh-so-human Kate. It's that particular state that will create problems with the European Packs, as they won't take her or her relationship with Curran seriously. The insults are constant! And Aunt B isn't helping when she raises Mahon's enmity toward Kate.
Oh, oh. That panacea has got Kate thinking babies!
Go, Andrea!
"Aunt B looked at her. 'You and I need to work on your air of mystery.'
Andrea shrugged. 'She's my best friend. I won't lie to her.'
I raised my fist and she bumped it with hers."
Hmm, Kate worries about her and Julie's dreams intersecting sounds like foreshadowing for the next Kate Daniels installment.
In spite of all her issues and behavioral problems, Desandra turns out to be a lot more interesting—in a positive way—than I had expected.
I loved Curran's snark at Jarek:
"I wish you'd scrape enough balls together to try. I'm already bored."
Curran does tick me off, however. I don't like this game he's playing. And I don't think the Andrewses did an adequate job of working this angle. It's too surface. Too much tell. Andrews keeps telling us about Curran's wrongful behavior, but they don't show us anything. My whole attitude about it was oh, Kate, wait and see. Ya just know he's got a plan because there's no tension to this part of the drama. She knows what a schemer Curran is. Even the insults are too little girl. Kate doesn't even really buy into what Hugh is saying. She knows he's playing her. The authors don't make this believable. I did like the explanatory scene. Still too surface-y, tell-y, but Curran's reasoning was lovely. Hugh's soliloquy on his and Kate's training. Their need for the kill. Again. All surface. The Andrewses never dive down to any depth.
Gawd, Hugh is too creepy in this with total contempt for the shifters! And a very good actor...ick. We find out what he wants in a partne...and in a one-night stand.
Ah, jeez, that moment...that moment when Doolittle freaks about how Kate saved him. The pain it causes her. It made me want to cry. And the enlightenment Doolittle came across? That provoked the attack? Minor in its confused wording. Those blood samples, though. That would be reason enough to attack him.
Once we learn the truth about Christopher, I'm very surprised that Hugh let him go so easily.
Yeah, all in all, a confused tale with odd loose ends that I suspect the traumatic events were supposed to overshadow.
The Story
Two of the teens in the Keep go loup, and Curran can only get enough for one dose of panacea to help the girls. Then an offer for 10 drums of it come in. A deal with all sorts of traps built into it.
Three warring packs claim they want Curran to guard the girl because of his strength—and they don't trust each other. Not with so much riding on whose child is born first. And the offer of panacea ensures that Curran can't turn it down.
Not with all those hopeful mamas fearful for their children.
It doesn't take long before the trap falls. Whether the Atlanta Pack can escape is the question.
The Characters
Kate Daniels, the Consort, is the daughter of a powerful godlike being, who will seek her death if he finds her, and a powerful witch who did love Kate. Her entire life has been spent preparing to battle her father, and she has found love where she least expected it. Slayer is the saber she carries. Julie is her foster daughter, rescued back in Magic Burns, 2. Due to events in Magic Slays, 5, Kate must train Julie and use great care.
Curran Lennart is a First, who leads the 1,500-strong Pack of Atlanta (500 of 'em live at the Keep), the Beast Lord. A shifter more powerful than your average run-of-the-mill shifters. We know he's in love with Kate.
Maddie is a werebear and Julie's best friend; Margo is Maddie's twin sister. Meredith Cole is the girls' distraught mother.
Doc Darrien Doolittle is the Pack medmage. Tony is one of his assistants. Jennifer Hinton is the alpha of Clan Wolf. Pregnant. Terrified of this reminder of what could happen to her unborn child. Aunt B is the alpha for Clan Bouda and a power to be reckoned with. Jezebel and Barabas, a weremongoose, are a couple of her misfits whom she's assigned to help Kate. Ethan is Barabas' significant other. Raphael is Aunt B's son; he's engaged to Andrea Nash, a former Knight of the Order. Jim Shrapshire is in charge of Pack security; Keira is his sister (whom we've not met before). Mahon Delany is the alpha for Clan Heavy and the Pack Executioner. George, short for Georgetta, is Mahon's daughter as well as the Pack's clerk of the court. Derek Gaunt is Curran's aide and Kate's friend. One about whom she worries. Eduardo Ortega is a werebuffalo and part of the team going to Europe.
Mike Wilson is alpha of Ice Fury, a strong pack in Alaska. His ex-wife, Genevieve de Vos, took their daughter, Lorelei, back home to Belgium with her.
Saiman is a frost giant and polymorph who owes Kate a huge favor. He buys and sells intelligence and desperately wants to get Kate into his bed simply because she's refused him. After events in Magic Bleeds, 4, Saiman is terrified of Curran.
Astamur is a hunter who lives in the mountains. Gunda is his Caucasian shepherd [dog]. Atsany is the race to which the "hobbit" belongs; he won't give up his name as it could give Kate or Astamur power over him. Suliko is a descendant of a long line of dancers, people who have danced for the kings of Georgia.
Jarek Kral is a nasty, crude alpha of the Obluda Pack—or, as Aunt B puts it, he's a troglodyte—with an obsession about leaving a legacy. Kind of hard to do when you keep killing off your kids… Desandra is his only child, a daughter, and he uses her like a boomerang. Renok is one of his bodyguards.
After failing to "sell" her to Curran, he pushes her onto Radomil with the Volkodavi, then yanks her back to marry her off to Gerardo Lovari of the Belve Ravennati, from whom he yanks her back. What can I say? Boomerang. Gerardo and Ignazio are the sons of Isabella and Cosimo Lovari of the Belve Ravennati.
Hugh d'Ambray is Kate's father's warlord, and he's already suspicious of who Kate is. Voron was Roland's warlord and Hugh's father figure before he was bedazzled by Kate's mother and ran off with the pregnant Kalina. Roland is Kate's father, the father of the People, a wizard-king, and has lived for thousands of years. Christopher is a slightly nutty human whom Hugh has caged. And Kate's humanity is gonna pay off big time!
Lord Megobari is the human hosting Desandra's stay along with the three European Packs. Hibla is his chief of security. Demet is a healer sent by Megobari.
Going loup is a one-way ride to a type of shifter insanity. Once a shapeshifter goes loup, he or she is put down. The People are a nasty version of vampires in this world.
Lamassu are
Spoiler
nasty enhanced versions of shapeshifters formed from werewolves who eat human flesh. They then grow wings and become stronger and meaner.Volodja is one of Hugh's men, and he has information for Kate. The Iron Dogs are Roland's elite unit.
The Cover
The cover finds Kate with a questioning look on her face and surrounded by fire with a snarling Curran in his lion form behind her left shoulder.
I suspect the title refers to Astamur and the atsany and the others whom Astamur says exist in the world, those who have reawakened from their long sleep, for Magic Rises.
The best book yet!
This latest book in the Kate Daniels series has Kate, Curran and company traveling to Europe to get access to some desperately needed panacea. Things are never easy or straightforward for Kate and the trip quickly takes a bad turn. This book has everything I've come to expect from a Kate Daniels novel, non-stop action, quirky humor, lots of pop culture references and big fights for Curran and Kate. The tension and pacing of this book were superb! I loved every minute of it! Can't wait to read what comes next! This series just keeps getting better!
This latest book in the Kate Daniels series has Kate, Curran and company traveling to Europe to get access to some desperately needed panacea. Things are never easy or straightforward for Kate and the trip quickly takes a bad turn. This book has everything I've come to expect from a Kate Daniels novel, non-stop action, quirky humor, lots of pop culture references and big fights for Curran and Kate. The tension and pacing of this book were superb! I loved every minute of it! Can't wait to read what comes next! This series just keeps getting better!
What an emotional thump on the head this book was. Holy Twirl a Whirl I need to sit down.
I went from loving Curran to wanting to neuter him, to fearing for his life and back to loving him again. Bad Kitty, shouldn't do that to my feeble heart. He was the most irritating, rude, egocentric, lovable, sweet, rotten, adorable, strong, weak man.
Kate, oh beaten torn and sliced, she did it all. She losses her heart, losses her trust, looses her place and losses a comrade. She is the punching bag that keep inflating itself for more. Well, until she's had enough and there is nothing left to loose. Poor Kate.
The pack was trying to protect their future. They need to accomplish this goal to save the lives of some of the children. Well, it wasn't as simple as it was made out to be. No surprise there. There was one huge surprise one that will change the future forever. The hiding is over, the war may be beginning.
We meet several new characters. One I really look forward to learning more about is Christopher. He is a mystery, with no known history and some serious abilities.
I think he will be a major player in the next book. There are some new nasty ones that are perfectly rotten and so easy to hate. It's always good to have a cache of nasties around for balance.
Really enjoyed it. I need a re-read on audio to get a better feeling of it.
I went from loving Curran to wanting to neuter him, to fearing for his life and back to loving him again. Bad Kitty, shouldn't do that to my feeble heart. He was the most irritating, rude, egocentric, lovable, sweet, rotten, adorable, strong, weak man.
Kate, oh beaten torn and sliced, she did it all. She losses her heart, losses her trust, looses her place and losses a comrade. She is the punching bag that keep inflating itself for more. Well, until she's had enough and there is nothing left to loose. Poor Kate.
The pack was trying to protect their future. They need to accomplish this goal to save the lives of some of the children. Well, it wasn't as simple as it was made out to be. No surprise there. There was one huge surprise one that will change the future forever. The hiding is over, the war may be beginning.
We meet several new characters. One I really look forward to learning more about is Christopher. He is a mystery, with no known history and some serious abilities.
I think he will be a major player in the next book. There are some new nasty ones that are perfectly rotten and so easy to hate. It's always good to have a cache of nasties around for balance.
Really enjoyed it. I need a re-read on audio to get a better feeling of it.
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
MAJOR SPOILERS as in i discuss the whole plot
Ooooff ngl I dig Hugh. More than Curran. Controversial opinion?
Idk why really tbh. He’s powerful and smooth but Curran is more powerful. Maybe (like I’ve said before) I just love the chase, the enemies part of enemies to lovers
Maybe this is a bad sign for my own relationships. I get bored…
Also Christopher is an angel. And adorable
Regarding the actual book tho much of it made me angry. As in I’d like to pound Lorelai’s and Curran’s faces I hate that he kept his dumbass plan from Kate and made her feel inadequate
Ooooff ngl I dig Hugh. More than Curran. Controversial opinion?
Idk why really tbh. He’s powerful and smooth but Curran is more powerful. Maybe (like I’ve said before) I just love the chase, the enemies part of enemies to lovers
Maybe this is a bad sign for my own relationships. I get bored…
Also Christopher is an angel. And adorable
Regarding the actual book tho much of it made me angry. As in I’d like to pound Lorelai’s and Curran’s faces I hate that he kept his dumbass plan from Kate and made her feel inadequate
This one took me a while to get into. The second half is really enjoyable, but I struggled with the first half. Too much focus on the pack and not about Kate. I enjoy the ensemble of different creatures and the interplay between their kinds in this world, and I found the heavy focus on the pack in this kinda boring. And I absolutely hated the relationship drama, except for the actual introduction of Hugh, who was a great character.
This is the one book of the series that I always struggle with. Not because the story isn’t good, it is, but I really really do not like love triangles and this book is the closest this series comes to having one. Thankfully it doesn’t last long and it sort of does actually have a good reason.
WOW!
Kate is insecure! She undergoes such an emotional roller oyster I'm surprised at times how she stays on board.
Not set in Atlanta... Heck not even in the USA, Kate, Curran, Derek, Andrea, Raphael and co head across the great big pond.
There are many secrets (as usual) and Kate and Curran's relationship undergoes a lot of stress and tests. They actually talk to each other (eventually) and gives me hope for the future.
The were's play a great part in this story and you can see the eventual show down with Kate's father on the horizon, though there is one surprising suitor to contend with first.
This is very much a 'you must read' book and I don't want to give anything away. If you're a fan of the Kate Daniels series you won't be disappointed. If you haven't read any.... Why not!? Start at the beginning it's TOTALLY worth it. One of my favourite series'.
Kate is insecure! She undergoes such an emotional roller oyster I'm surprised at times how she stays on board.
Not set in Atlanta... Heck not even in the USA, Kate, Curran, Derek, Andrea, Raphael and co head across the great big pond.
There are many secrets (as usual) and Kate and Curran's relationship undergoes a lot of stress and tests. They actually talk to each other (eventually) and gives me hope for the future.
The were's play a great part in this story and you can see the eventual show down with Kate's father on the horizon, though there is one surprising suitor to contend with first.
This is very much a 'you must read' book and I don't want to give anything away. If you're a fan of the Kate Daniels series you won't be disappointed. If you haven't read any.... Why not!? Start at the beginning it's TOTALLY worth it. One of my favourite series'.