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Title: Magic Bleeds (Kate Daniels, book 4)
Author: Ilona Andrews
Release: May 25th, 2010
Purchase this book: Amazon | Book Depository | No Kindle Version Yet
Goodreads Entry: here
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Rating: 5 Stars

I am going to do my very best to keep this review spoiler free…. I didn’t want to be spoiled and I know you don’t either (well with the exception of KC that is, she is a bad girl).

Magic Bleeds has Kate still working for the order in her own way. When a big bad evil doer comes to town and starts driving shapeshifters wild and infecting people with contagious diseases it is up to Kate to take care of business in the best way she knows how. Things get even more dangerous for Kate and those she loves as her identity gets harder to hide and her family ups the stakes.

If I were a super kick ass heroine, I would totally be Kate. She is funny, sarcastic, courageous, and loyal… but she will also kick your ass if she needs to. She takes the shit life gives her and keeps on going no matter the cost, all the while somehow managing to avoid becoming bitter and spiteful (one of my pet peeves with UF heroines). All of this and more is true of Kate in book 4 of the series. She is the Kate we know and love, but she is growing increasingly vulnerable and wiser.

The Kate Daniels series started off with a strong, yet lonely heroine who had only one purpose in her life. Magic Bleeds gives the reader a battle hardened but love softened version of that same heroine. The family Kate has unintentionally found and her feelings towards Curran make her vulnerable and soften the hard edges of her personality. Voron’s words of warning constantly play in the back of her mind causing her to doubt whether she can have the things that make her truly happy.

Curran is the ultimate Beast Lord and delivers like you would expect one to in Magic Bleeds. He is pissy, temperamental, sarcastic, dangerous, standoffish, and growly. Very Growly. Very. He will also make your toes tingle and your heart swell in ways I didn’t expect. A relationship between Kate and Curran will never be easy, but book 4 asks the question…. do both of them have the strength to try? And if so, will the big bad evil doers even give them the chance?

Ilona Andrews once again delivers a novel that meshes sizzling romantic tension with nail biting urban fantasy action perfectly. The plot and action sequences always manage to stay center stage, never feeling lackluster in comparison with the “will they or won’t they” subplot. Magic Bleeds reads like a game changer…tying up some long running plot lines while expanding and revealing new ones. I for one can’t wait to see what is coming up next for Kate and how she manages to stay alive, again.

FTC Disclaimer: Book was given to me by the author

Ilona Andrews is at it again, teasing us poor readers. Today, my birthday, she flaunts this yummy anthology goodness! I can’t even tell you how excited I am to learn about this anthology…. Its all I can do to not cackle with giddiness. Jim Butcher, Vicki Pettersson, Ilona Andrews, and more…. all in one book? An urban fantasy fangirl’s ultimate dream!

It looks like it is set to be published in July 2010 and the paperback is available for preorder from Amazon here. No kindle version yet. Check out Ilona Andrew’s blog for the small snippet from the Kate Daniels story in the anthology.

omg omg omg fangirl *squeeel* I am so excited for this book – it just is NOT funny. Gorgeous cover! As soon as I saw this on Ilona Andrew’s blog this morning I ran over here to post this. Well ok, honestly, I posted it to the goodreads entry first but the librarian in me made me do it!

If you aren’t reading her blog, you should be. She and her husband are hilarious and often post snippets for us crazy fans. Gordon has even posted his own versions of things from Curran’s perspective a few times. It helps the time between releases pass

Anyway, you can pre-order Magic Bleeds from Amazon here. No kindle version yet. I don’t see a cover blurb yet. Release is set for June 2010.

On the Edge
Ilona Andrews
Release: Sept. 29, 2009
Buy Kindle Version: here
Rating: 5 Stars

Rose Drayton lives on the Edge, between the world of the Broken (where people drive cars, shop at Wal-Mart, and magic is a fairy tale) and the Weird (where blueblood aristocrats rule, changelings roam, and the strength of your magic can change your destiny). Only Edgers like Rose can easily travel from one world to the next, but they never truly belong in either.

But when a terrible danger invades the Edge from the Weird, a flood of creatures hungry for magic, Declan and Rose must work together to destroy them, or the beasts will devour the Edge and everyone in it . . .
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