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Magic Dreams (Kate Daniels #4.5)
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Ilona Andrews (Goodreads Author)
Magic Dreams originally appeared in the anthology Hexed.
From New York Times bestselling author Ilona Andrews comes a tale of darkness, desire, and werecats.
Alpha Pack leader Jim Shrapshire has always been the strong, silent type. But something has come over him--a magic force currently residing in one of the Pack's headquarters. Were-tigress Dali Harimau has always wished...more
From New York Times bestselling author Ilona Andrews comes a tale of darkness, desire, and werecats.
Alpha Pack leader Jim Shrapshire has always been the strong, silent type. But something has come over him--a magic force currently residing in one of the Pack's headquarters. Were-tigress Dali Harimau has always wished...more
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June 26th 2012
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This was so, so GOOD!!!
Ever since, the first time i read about Dali, that i got curious about this magical white tiger who is practically blind. And who likes to enter car races_ she gives a lot of work to auto-shops, one could say that she's helping the economy, cough_....oh, and someone who is a vegetarian.
A vegetarian tiger....cute!
Then there is Jim. The alpha of the cats, is as badass as one could get, but getting Dali to do as he wants, is JUST way beyond his skills. Because she is reckles...more
Ever since, the first time i read about Dali, that i got curious about this magical white tiger who is practically blind. And who likes to enter car races_ she gives a lot of work to auto-shops, one could say that she's helping the economy, cough_....oh, and someone who is a vegetarian.
A vegetarian tiger....cute!
Then there is Jim. The alpha of the cats, is as badass as one could get, but getting Dali to do as he wants, is JUST way beyond his skills. Because she is reckles...more
Whenever I've read any of the Kate Daniel's series, I've always loved the crazy antics of Dali. Combine that with the budding attraction she has with Jim the alpha and the result is just plain good old fun.
Jim has been informed that one of their offices has been out of contact for quite a while. So, he goes out to investigate and what he finds is truly disturbing. The office is dusty and just feels wrong. So, Jim goes to see Dali. When she returns home from racing (Ha! I just love it. A near bli...more
Jim has been informed that one of their offices has been out of contact for quite a while. So, he goes out to investigate and what he finds is truly disturbing. The office is dusty and just feels wrong. So, Jim goes to see Dali. When she returns home from racing (Ha! I just love it. A near bli...more
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Another win for the Andrews. This is how you write a short. I love me some Dali. She's so frikkin cute and nerdy and I wanna friend her.
The magic stuffs and plot were interesting, but my only gripe is that they took center stage over romance. The story lacked a bit in romance. Nothing plot-wise felt too rushed - except for the end a bit, because I would have liked to read a little more about (view spoiler). I got the gist, but I wanted to r...more
The magic stuffs and plot were interesting, but my only gripe is that they took center stage over romance. The story lacked a bit in romance. Nothing plot-wise felt too rushed - except for the end a bit, because I would have liked to read a little more about (view spoiler). I got the gist, but I wanted to r...more
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Wow, what a change of perspective! Dali is so unlike impulsive, exotic, ass-kicking Kate and determined, pretty, trigger happy Andrea that it's almost overwhelming. While the Cutting Edge duo rush straight into battle without thinking, Dali gets sick at the sight of blood and relies on magic instead of claws and teeth. To top it all, even though her other self is a huge mythical white tiger, she is a complete vegetarian. Obviously, other shapeshifters don't get her. So we get a gigantic klutzy v...more
Really looking forward to the Jim and Dali book coming out in the hopefully not so distant future now. And yes, I've gone on a Kate Daniels rampage over the weekend.
This is a novella about Jim and Dali. Jim has always been just ok for me so I didn’t rush to read his novella. I have always liked him as a secondary character, but as a hero for Dali? I wasn’t sure. As usual, I should just trust that whatever comes out of these author’s minds will be golden.
This story follows Dali who is a “mystical white tiger” with bad eyes and some magic of her own. Jim comes to her for help. There is a shapeshifter outpost run by four pack members, but they haven’t checked...more
This story follows Dali who is a “mystical white tiger” with bad eyes and some magic of her own. Jim comes to her for help. There is a shapeshifter outpost run by four pack members, but they haven’t checked...more
Full review over at Fantasy Book Critic
OVERVIEW/ANALYSIS: In addition to Magic Slays, 2011 also sees the release of a new novella from Ilona Andrews called “Magic Dreams”, which is featured in the Hexed anthology and includes contributions from Yasmine Galenorn, Allyson James and Jeanne C. Stein. “Magic Dreams” focuses on Jim and Dali, who are both from the Cat clan. Jim is the alpha and the head of security for the Pack, while Dali is a white were-tigress who was last seen in Magic Strikes. “...more
Dali, you adorable scene stealer. In this novella, the half-blind nerd girl gets center stage. Dali, the vegetarian white tiger shapeshifter who crashed into the story in Magic Strikes, is everything Kate Daniels isn't. She doesn't fight, doesn't kill, but that doesn't mean Dali isn't badass in her own right. She can write out a curse in calligraphy like no one else.
Jim: "You want me to go back into that house protected by a magic sticky note?"We saw a hint of possibly something between Dali and...more
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Anyone who has read my reviews should know, of course, that I am a HUGE Ilona Andrews "Kate Daniels" series. This short story centers on Jim and Dali, and as Dali is one of my favorite secondary characters, this is a huge plus to me.
The Andrews team always writes wonderful female characters, and Dali is no exception. I adore her. You would expect a weretiger to be strong, vicious, centered, and nobody you would want to mess with. Instead, Dali is tiny, half-blind, and suffers from amnesia whenev...more
The Andrews team always writes wonderful female characters, and Dali is no exception. I adore her. You would expect a weretiger to be strong, vicious, centered, and nobody you would want to mess with. Instead, Dali is tiny, half-blind, and suffers from amnesia whenev...more
There's no way around it: Jim and Dali are two of my favorite characters in the series and after spending what felt like much too long waiting to get my hands on this, I finally got around to reading it. I must say, it didn't disappoint.
When Jim ends up in trouble, he goes to Dali for help as she's the only one with enough knowledge about magic to help him.
It was a great treat to learn more about Jim and Dali and although Dali is much different from Kate, the point of view character in the serie...more
When Jim ends up in trouble, he goes to Dali for help as she's the only one with enough knowledge about magic to help him.
It was a great treat to learn more about Jim and Dali and although Dali is much different from Kate, the point of view character in the serie...more
Amazing! This is a Kate Daniels novella featuring Dali and Jim, and it takes place between Magic Bleeds and Magic Slays. These two will have their own full-length novel sometime in the near future and I can't wait.
I ADORE Dali. I mean, she's an Indonesian, vegetarian, blind-as-a-bat, street-racing, shapeshifting white tigress. She's not a warrior like Kate or Andrea, but she's full of personality and humor and her unrequited love for Jim is endearing.
If you've read the Kate Daniels series, def...more
I ADORE Dali. I mean, she's an Indonesian, vegetarian, blind-as-a-bat, street-racing, shapeshifting white tigress. She's not a warrior like Kate or Andrea, but she's full of personality and humor and her unrequited love for Jim is endearing.
If you've read the Kate Daniels series, def...more
I really love the Kate Daniels series and I have always liked the side-line characters...especially Jim and Andrea. This was a short about Jim and how he and Dali finally got together. As a rule, I'm not a huge fan of short stories becuase they often seem rushed and you just don't get to tenjoy the characters and the story the way you do in a novel. This short story did not have that problem, however. Maybe because I already know the characters and the world, but I don't think so. This is a shor...more
The Kate Daniels books by Ilona Andrews is one of my favourite series. Kate and Curran – I adore them. I love the characters in these books, I think Ms Andrews excels at writing interesting and complex but fun characters. This ebook which was first published in last years anthology Hexed, features two fan favorite secondary characters from the Kate Daniels series – Dali and Jim. The action in the novella occurs between books 4 and 5 of the Kate Daniel series.
Dali and Jim are both were-cats, he’s...more
Dali and Jim are both were-cats, he’s...more
Originally reviewed here.
Though I read and very much enjoyed the Ilona Andrews' Andrea & Raphael novella in Must Love Hellhounds, I somehow never got around to reading the Hexed anthology. This was tragic on several levels, mainly because the Andrews novella included in that volume was the Jim and Dali story. I have been salivating over those two for what feels like forever now, anxiously crossing my fingers they would get their own book. And yet its inclusion in that antho somehow escaped m...more
Though I read and very much enjoyed the Ilona Andrews' Andrea & Raphael novella in Must Love Hellhounds, I somehow never got around to reading the Hexed anthology. This was tragic on several levels, mainly because the Andrews novella included in that volume was the Jim and Dali story. I have been salivating over those two for what feels like forever now, anxiously crossing my fingers they would get their own book. And yet its inclusion in that antho somehow escaped m...more
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`Magic Dreams' is the new short story from Ilona Andrews, which originally appeared in the 2011 'Hexed' anthology. This short concerns fan-favourites from the `Kate Daniels' universe - Keep spymaster, Jim, and blind white tiger, Dali. `Dreams' takes place between Magic Bleeds (Book 4) and Magic Slays (Book 5), but is a stand-alone story.
There's some weird magic at one of the shifter community offices. Jim goes to investigate, but finds spooky magic, the smell of blood, a mysteriously beautiful w...more
There's some weird magic at one of the shifter community offices. Jim goes to investigate, but finds spooky magic, the smell of blood, a mysteriously beautiful w...more
I read this novella very quickly, even for a novella. I love Ilona Andrews' Kate Daniels series, and therefore, anything related to it, I tend to devour.
Magic Dreams centers around Dali and Jim, a white tiger shifter, and a panther shifter. Jim is also Curran's chief of security type person, and the alpha of the cat clan.
In this novella, we see Dali openly lusting (in her mind) after Jim (this story is told from her perspective), and being torn up over the fact that he doesn't lust after her a...more
Magic Dreams centers around Dali and Jim, a white tiger shifter, and a panther shifter. Jim is also Curran's chief of security type person, and the alpha of the cat clan.
In this novella, we see Dali openly lusting (in her mind) after Jim (this story is told from her perspective), and being torn up over the fact that he doesn't lust after her a...more
Magic Dreams is an urban fantasy novella for the Kate Daniels' Series which I had gotten into last year. The story is however about Dali and Jim, not Curran and Kate so somehow I can be a bit lost since there have been many novellas in between the novels. The novella was featured in an anthology Hexed which I haven't read yet, luckily.
Dali Harimau is a Hindu Indonesian white weretiger who is fluent in japanese (or chinese since usually they use kanji) calligraphy and mostly familiar with Japanes...more
As always this writing duo can write no wrong! I just ate this up in less than thirty minutes! My only regret is that it went so fast- too fast! Jim Shrapshire is the take-no-prisoners Alpha Pack leader to the cats in the Kate Daniels' world novels. Dali Harimau is a legendary white were-tigress who has always watched life from the sidelines; she's also nursing one huge crush on her Alpha and wishes he'd just look her way- and not to yell at her for street racing, even if she is legally blind.
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Dali is a great character, and I was glad to read in the Author's Note at the end promises that a full-length novel with the White Tiger will be in the works for us in the not-too-distant future. The main reason I stayed shy of four stars is because the end had to be tidied up a little too quickly for my taste, but that's a quibble about the length restraints of a novella, not the storytelling per se.
Will I be buying the full-length novel? Why yes, yes I will.
It's savvy to re-release novellas...more
Will I be buying the full-length novel? Why yes, yes I will.
It's savvy to re-release novellas...more
I read this one in the Hexed anthology, so I'm not sure if this eSpecial has added material or not.
Dali is such a quirky character. The way she talks makes me think of an older version of Julie sometimes.
If this was the first piece by Ilona Andrews I read I might not have liked it as much. Being a short story, it's hard to believe the romance between these two characters develop so quickly. But since I've read the previous books I already have a past attachment to them and have seen how they int...more
Dali is such a quirky character. The way she talks makes me think of an older version of Julie sometimes.
If this was the first piece by Ilona Andrews I read I might not have liked it as much. Being a short story, it's hard to believe the romance between these two characters develop so quickly. But since I've read the previous books I already have a past attachment to them and have seen how they int...more
OH MY GOD.
Like seriously. OMFREAKINGG!
I always loved the character of Jim in the Kate Daniels books and Dali definitely intrigued me when she was first introduced. And getting such an in depth glimpse into them was awesome. I knew Dali had issues and some insecurities, and to see her cultural background, family, and her ancestral past they are all totally understandable now. And Jim. Oh Jim. The team this is Andrews were able to write him so perfectly that he was still a complete and total BAD...more
Like seriously. OMFREAKINGG!
I always loved the character of Jim in the Kate Daniels books and Dali definitely intrigued me when she was first introduced. And getting such an in depth glimpse into them was awesome. I knew Dali had issues and some insecurities, and to see her cultural background, family, and her ancestral past they are all totally understandable now. And Jim. Oh Jim. The team this is Andrews were able to write him so perfectly that he was still a complete and total BAD...more
Oh yes I'm just pumping through these books!
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I was going to read the entire series first and then go back and try to read some of these in-between books but I was just drawn to Jim in this series and couldn't wait. I wanted to read a bit more about Jim and since we were introduced to Dali in an earlier book, it gave me the incentive to buy it.
Magic Dreams is still 100% the Kate Daniels' world. The funny thing about this story is Dali really loves Jim (from...more
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I was going to read the entire series first and then go back and try to read some of these in-between books but I was just drawn to Jim in this series and couldn't wait. I wanted to read a bit more about Jim and since we were introduced to Dali in an earlier book, it gave me the incentive to buy it.
Magic Dreams is still 100% the Kate Daniels' world. The funny thing about this story is Dali really loves Jim (from...more
i actually read this short story in Hexed which is a collection of short stories.
Magic Dreams is a short story from Dali's POV. an evil Japanese demon is hurting the pack so Jim contacts Dali to see if they can find the solution. now Dali is in a race against time to kill the demon before it kills Jim.
i find Dali fascinating so i was expecting this to be fantastic, but i was surprised when i found out that Dali is easily jealous of most people because of there beauty even Kate who doesnt think s...more
Magic Dreams is a short story from Dali's POV. an evil Japanese demon is hurting the pack so Jim contacts Dali to see if they can find the solution. now Dali is in a race against time to kill the demon before it kills Jim.
i find Dali fascinating so i was expecting this to be fantastic, but i was surprised when i found out that Dali is easily jealous of most people because of there beauty even Kate who doesnt think s...more
I read this on the first full day of my neighborhoods black out post hurricane Sandy. I am someone who is always attached to technology. Attached to my computer, my ipod touch, my wifi, my TV, my netflix, my nook, etc etc. That is how I spend every day. I have not had electricity for about four days now and it's extremely grim for someone who is as technologically addicted as I am.
I have been unable to read books these last few weeks because I have been writing my first novel and have been unabl...more
I have been unable to read books these last few weeks because I have been writing my first novel and have been unabl...more
I almost ruined a great story.
Team Andrews writes another winning number, but I won't use them as a rebound again. I'm fresh out of a huge disappointment with another author who managed to offend, irritate and peeve me off. I leapt into Magic Dreams because I knew the landscape and trusted the plot weavers. It took two chapters to convince me things would be alright. I kept waiting for something to fail or offend. I should have known better.
Great authors write to excite and inspire. Their world...more
Team Andrews writes another winning number, but I won't use them as a rebound again. I'm fresh out of a huge disappointment with another author who managed to offend, irritate and peeve me off. I leapt into Magic Dreams because I knew the landscape and trusted the plot weavers. It took two chapters to convince me things would be alright. I kept waiting for something to fail or offend. I should have known better.
Great authors write to excite and inspire. Their world...more
Aug 11, 2012
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Atlanta is proof positive that magic doesn’t necessarily make life easier. Every time magic goes out the unknown and unexpected make an unwelcome appearance. This time around its in the form of a magic sickness that strikes our strong, (relatively) silent and self assured alpha Jim. Brainy, legally blind, self-conscious, vegetarian, car-crashin’, over sized white tiger Dali’s dream comes true as she gets the opportunity to be closer to him than she thought she would ever get by b...more
I first read this in the Hexed anthology. One of the things I love about eBooks is that so often my favorite short stories eventually get released digitally on their own. If you love the Kate Daniels series I highly recommend it. Not that Kate is really in this one. This story is about Dali and Jim.
We met Jim in book 1 - a fellow merc, he is one of the few people that Kate could grudgingly call a friend. He is also a werejaguar, the Alpha of Clan Cat, and the Pack's head of secuirty. We met Dali...more
We met Jim in book 1 - a fellow merc, he is one of the few people that Kate could grudgingly call a friend. He is also a werejaguar, the Alpha of Clan Cat, and the Pack's head of secuirty. We met Dali...more
Magic Dreams by Ilona Andrews delivers delicious bits of a world we can't get enough of. Wow, I loved learning so much more about Dali and her family. Her strength and intelligence took this short story exactly where it had to be taken. Andrew's ability to intertwine Indonesian folklore with such detail and at the same time weave a wonderful tale, only demonstrates true mastery of the craft. Dali's desire to keep Jim alive regardless of the danger she faced, brought her feelings for Jim to the f...more
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Now, if the line “a tale of darkness, desire, and werecats” doesn’t make you guffaw and totally want to check this novella out, I’m not sure what I can say to convince you, but I’m going to try. Because, dear friends, Magic Dreams, easily captured the roll of my favorite novella thus far in this series. Maybe it was because I was coming off of a couple of fairly mediocre reads and Magic Dreams totally picked me up, but more than that I think it’s because it was a fresh a...more
Now, if the line “a tale of darkness, desire, and werecats” doesn’t make you guffaw and totally want to check this novella out, I’m not sure what I can say to convince you, but I’m going to try. Because, dear friends, Magic Dreams, easily captured the roll of my favorite novella thus far in this series. Maybe it was because I was coming off of a couple of fairly mediocre reads and Magic Dreams totally picked me up, but more than that I think it’s because it was a fresh a...more
This was a book set in the Kate Daniel universe, but focusing on Dali & Jim. It's a good little story (I'd love to see more of the dragon fleshed out) but it fell a little flat for me. Why would Jim be interested in Dali? They talk about how he could've been a doctor, had good grades, but all you see is hulking merc Jim. A little interplay where they discuss something intellectual would've been nice. Something to feed other than "Ooh you're good looking. Let's mate".
I felt the "bad guy" was...more
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“Look, he isn’t even concerned.”
I poured the tea. “He’s concerned, Mother. He just doesn’t panic, because he’s in charge and if he panics, everybody else will panic.”
“I can jog around the room pretending to scream if you would like,” Jim offered.”
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I poured the tea. “He’s concerned, Mother. He just doesn’t panic, because he’s in charge and if he panics, everybody else will panic.”
“I can jog around the room pretending to scream if you would like,” Jim offered.”
“A rolled-up newspaper landed on my head and then on Jim’s. “None of that in my house!”
Oh my gods. The alpha of Clan Cat just got smacked with a rolled-up newspaper. “Mom!”
She pointed at me with the newspaper. “Do not shame me.”
I clamped my mouth shut. When she pulled out the shame card, it was all over.”
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Oh my gods. The alpha of Clan Cat just got smacked with a rolled-up newspaper. “Mom!”
She pointed at me with the newspaper. “Do not shame me.”
I clamped my mouth shut. When she pulled out the shame card, it was all over.”
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