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thursday48's review against another edition
4.0
Actual Rating 3.5
Since I couldn't get my hands on the 6th book in the Kate Daniels series but was still really wanting to be in that world reading wise I picked this book up and I'm glad I did. I liked how much we got to see Andrea develop. The thing is, a lot of it this is repeated information from the Kate Daniels books. So, there is that but I suspect that it will be good to have read this book before I read the sixth book, and I'm going to try to find the two short stories that were published between books 5 and 6 while I wait for book 6.
Since I couldn't get my hands on the 6th book in the Kate Daniels series but was still really wanting to be in that world reading wise I picked this book up and I'm glad I did. I liked how much we got to see Andrea develop. The thing is, a lot of it this is repeated information from the Kate Daniels books. So, there is that but I suspect that it will be good to have read this book before I read the sixth book, and I'm going to try to find the two short stories that were published between books 5 and 6 while I wait for book 6.
life1sg00d's review against another edition
2.0
I really like Andrea but this book is not of the Kate Daniels category. I don't understand how these authors could write such a standard/ typical predictable romance novel.
foxconfessor's review against another edition
5.0
I feel like Andrea needs a whole spinoff series. She's so awesome.
c4nd1e's review against another edition
2.0
I like Andrea as a character, but perhaps not as a main character. This story had some good parts, but it didn't hold my interest well.
lalala123987's review against another edition
5.0
One of my favorites, the world of post Shift Atlanta is so rich and the supporting characters are so multi dimensional that they all flow naturally into the spotlight in these novellas.
writeralicia's review against another edition
4.0
This rating is probably unfair. If this weren't a Kate Daniels World novel, I might give it five stars. But since it is, I missed Kate and Curran a lot. It's hard for me to give a book five stars when it felt like something was missing. Kate and Curran made some appearances, once or twice as a couple, and then Kate was involved in an action scene at one point. I wanted more!
I adored the mating game between Andrea and Raphael. Back in the earlier books, when Curran was courting Kate, we got to see how shapeshifters handle dating--basically, pranks and invasion of personal space mean "I love you." Now, with Andrea and Raphael, I got to see more of that. These were hilarious and fun moments.
The plot was excellent and well-executed, as I've come to expect of a Kate Daniels World novel. To avoid spoilers, I won't go into that. But I'll say only that I had no complaints about plot.
Outside of not seeing Kate and Curran as much as I'd like, my only other complaint came up toward the beginning of the book. In the first two action scenes, Andrea fought some kind of giant insects and then a giant blue beast. If you read the prior Andrea-Raphael novel, you'll recall that Andrea fought a giant dog in that one. So toward the beginning of this book, I was thinking: Is Andrea only going to fight giant creatures? I mean, the occasional giant creature is exciting. But after three (including the novella), it begins to look like a series of video game bosses. There are merits in fights between beings of similar size; for instance, the technique can be more refined. However, after the first third of the novel, the bad guys were more normal-sized (and hard-core in their own ways). So my concerns went away.
I adored the mating game between Andrea and Raphael. Back in the earlier books, when Curran was courting Kate, we got to see how shapeshifters handle dating--basically, pranks and invasion of personal space mean "I love you." Now, with Andrea and Raphael, I got to see more of that. These were hilarious and fun moments.
The plot was excellent and well-executed, as I've come to expect of a Kate Daniels World novel. To avoid spoilers, I won't go into that. But I'll say only that I had no complaints about plot.
Outside of not seeing Kate and Curran as much as I'd like, my only other complaint came up toward the beginning of the book. In the first two action scenes, Andrea fought some kind of giant insects and then a giant blue beast. If you read the prior Andrea-Raphael novel, you'll recall that Andrea fought a giant dog in that one. So toward the beginning of this book, I was thinking: Is Andrea only going to fight giant creatures? I mean, the occasional giant creature is exciting. But after three (including the novella), it begins to look like a series of video game bosses. There are merits in fights between beings of similar size; for instance, the technique can be more refined. However, after the first third of the novel, the bad guys were more normal-sized (and hard-core in their own ways). So my concerns went away.
blodeuedd's review against another edition
3.0
Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it. It was just not as good as later Kate books. It was more like the earlier ones and therefore it gets a grade like those.
Andrea was kick-ass, she has always been kick-ass. She has a horrible past, she is also something not that liked, beastkin. Yup her dad was actually an animal first. But she is just so Andrea, she fights, she wants to belong and I like her.
Raphael, oh what to say about him. Sleek, sexy, the favorite of the pack. Some of the things he did here just made me go all awwww, alpha ;) and other thing made me grind me teeth. They have issues to work through. But it was always been a dance between them.
The plot is that Pack members have been killed and it's up to her to find out who. I will say no more as it delivers a lot of different things into the mix.
I liked it. It gave me what I wanted. And I am a sucker for the mate frenzy shifters go through, all the mine mine mine.
Andrea was kick-ass, she has always been kick-ass. She has a horrible past, she is also something not that liked, beastkin. Yup her dad was actually an animal first. But she is just so Andrea, she fights, she wants to belong and I like her.
Raphael, oh what to say about him. Sleek, sexy, the favorite of the pack. Some of the things he did here just made me go all awwww, alpha ;) and other thing made me grind me teeth. They have issues to work through. But it was always been a dance between them.
The plot is that Pack members have been killed and it's up to her to find out who. I will say no more as it delivers a lot of different things into the mix.
I liked it. It gave me what I wanted. And I am a sucker for the mate frenzy shifters go through, all the mine mine mine.
amibunk's review against another edition
3.0
Easily read and entertaining. I enjoy the Kate Daniel books more, but it was rather fun to get a different perspective.
jro14x's review against another edition
5.0
Amazing from beginning to end. Andrea held her own, and I loved seeing how she embraced her beastly side. Ilona Andrews had been on my automatic buy list since I picked up the first Kate book, and my love for this writing duo was reinforced once again with this one. I never thought I associate purple shag carpet with sexy, but I'll never see it the same way again! Congrats, authors, on another exceptional example of storytelling!
fantasyfunk's review against another edition
5.0
Loved it.
My problem with the first Andrea short story is that she felt like a mini-KD. I still got a little of that in this one, but I thought it was handled a lot better. She might be an asskicker just like KD but this book added a different flavor to her asskickery. I like that her investigation is a bit more organized and focused than KD uses since she has a stronger Order background. The relationship drama was maybe a tad too much/overused in places but I like Andrea and Raphael together.
Also Roman. Where is the Roman book?! And Ascanio. Great side characters.
My problem with the first Andrea short story is that she felt like a mini-KD. I still got a little of that in this one, but I thought it was handled a lot better. She might be an asskicker just like KD but this book added a different flavor to her asskickery. I like that her investigation is a bit more organized and focused than KD uses since she has a stronger Order background. The relationship drama was maybe a tad too much/overused in places but I like Andrea and Raphael together.
Also Roman. Where is the Roman book?! And Ascanio. Great side characters.