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octavia_cade 's review for:
Gunmetal Magic
by Ilona Andrews
adventurous
medium-paced
I like Andrea Nash. I really do. I find her genuinely compelling, and she's got a fantastic backstory - tragic, but fantastic - which sets up all sorts of conflict in her present day life, as she tries to navigate her shapeshifter status through the lens of profound trauma. I am interested in that story. I want to see more of it, and I like to see her slowly claw her way to good mental health. As with nearly every other story in this series, however, I am consistently less invested in the romance. Boudas may live for romantic drama but I don't, and I honestly spent much of the book hoping that the incipient love triangle would end any other way than it did. Truthfully, I was rooting for Roman. Not because of any deep investment in his character or anything, but because he's open and laid back and doesn't seem that interested in creating drama for the sake of it with any potential romantic interest, even if he is a priest for the god of death. I would also have taken Andrea deciding that, no, she needs to work on herself a bit more and that relationships with people who try to hurt you are not worth fighting for, but of course she goes for the least appealing option of the three.
I will say, though, that Kate and Curran became significantly more tolerable once they got together and stopped that interminable squabbling. They still disagree now, of course, but it's less a feature of the book, so perhaps it will be the same for Andrea. I'd rather see more of her difficult relationship with Auntie B., though.
I will say, though, that Kate and Curran became significantly more tolerable once they got together and stopped that interminable squabbling. They still disagree now, of course, but it's less a feature of the book, so perhaps it will be the same for Andrea. I'd rather see more of her difficult relationship with Auntie B., though.