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Curran, Vol. I (Curran POV #1)
by
Gordon Andrews,
Ilona Andrews (Goodreads Author)
Not short story, novella, or standalone, but collection of scenes written by Gordon Andrews as a companion to our Kate Daniels series of books. These scenes illustrate the point of view of Curran, the Beast Lord of Atlanta and are provided in gratitude to our readers for all of their support.
ebook, 28 pages
Published
July 21st 2010
by Ilona Andrews
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Curran's POV Vol 1 is a free, online collection of four short scenes from Curran's POV set in the Kate Daniels series. There is one scene for each of the first four books in the series.
The first scene is when Curran and Kate first meet. It was definitely interesting to read his initial thoughts about Kate. And if you thought the "Here, kitty, kitty, kitty" thing was funny in Magic Bites, just wait until you read Curran's reaction to it. That had me rolling.
The second is when Kate is injured and...more
The first scene is when Curran and Kate first meet. It was definitely interesting to read his initial thoughts about Kate. And if you thought the "Here, kitty, kitty, kitty" thing was funny in Magic Bites, just wait until you read Curran's reaction to it. That had me rolling.
The second is when Kate is injured and...more
3.5 STARS
While I enjoyed reading things from Curran's POV, I don't thing it changed anything. We could see how he felt in all the books clearly even though things were from Kate's POV. The author had a way of letting us know how Curran felt. So I felt I didn't really need this book. But it was nice at the same time. I enjoyed it because it was short, but it felt like reading the same things over again.
I love Curran but this book helped me realize that it is because of Kate that I love this serie...more
While I enjoyed reading things from Curran's POV, I don't thing it changed anything. We could see how he felt in all the books clearly even though things were from Kate's POV. The author had a way of letting us know how Curran felt. So I felt I didn't really need this book. But it was nice at the same time. I enjoyed it because it was short, but it felt like reading the same things over again.
I love Curran but this book helped me realize that it is because of Kate that I love this serie...more
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Whether or not she knew it, Kate was mine now and I would save her or die trying.
I loved reading scenes from Curran's POV! Just wish there were more. I think the scene with Curran feeding Kate the chicken soup, and the weighty implications behind that act was my favorite.
I loved reading scenes from Curran's POV! Just wish there were more. I think the scene with Curran feeding Kate the chicken soup, and the weighty implications behind that act was my favorite.
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Loved these of course, but my greedy mind wants an entire book in Currans POV!
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so, this is parts in the series wit curran's POV and its a really quick read leaving you to want more and more. i have to say that iam so very thankful to get inside of curran's head to see what he is thinking and i hope we get more of these in the future. we get them from magic bites, magic burns, magic strikes, and magic bleeds. just reading this made me want so much more of curran. I thought he was so funny and what he was thinking too. i love when authors do this for us, b/c at some scenes i...more
Full review over at Bastard Books blog
ANALYSIS: One of my favorite author pairs are Ilona Andrews, the husband-wife team of Ilona & Andrew Gordon who have shot up within the crowded ranks of the urban fantasy sub-genre. They did it by putting out one the best series currently being written, the Kate Daniels “Magic” series. There have been five books along with three short stories out so far. I have reviewed them previously and they can be found over at Fantasy Book Critic.
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I want to say 3 stars, but I just don't see it. Curran goes with the Kate Daniel's series, written primarily by Ilona Andrews. Her husband Gordon wrote this. I first read the series through book 5, then I bought this little piece, to avoid spoiling the stories. However, it is fine to read it after book 4, since it has a scene, told from Curran's POV, from events that took place in books 1-4 (or skip it -- it adds nothing to the series, plot wise).
About 33 pages in length, and self-published, i...more
About 33 pages in length, and self-published, i...more
If you are a fan of the Kate Daniel series this is a must. If you haven't read any of them, go read now! and come back to this book. I have been reading Curran's POV on the authors' web site, but to see them all compiled in one book was wonderful.
This book gives an exellent look behind what goes on in Curran's mind when Kate does one of those crazy things. I loved them. It is not absolutely necessary to read them to understand Curran, but it's a good clean fun.
Acutally, you know I seriously won...more
This book gives an exellent look behind what goes on in Curran's mind when Kate does one of those crazy things. I loved them. It is not absolutely necessary to read them to understand Curran, but it's a good clean fun.
Acutally, you know I seriously won...more
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If you love the Kate Daniels series I recommend downloading and reading this novella of short stories which are written from Curran's point of view. You can also get this on smashwords or off of the Andrews' website for free. I downloaded it from smashwords a couple months ago.
The stories are pulled from all different books in this series. Most of them feature scenes between Kate and Curran, but are done from Curran's point of view. There are a couple that cover times when Kate wasn't there (on...more
The stories are pulled from all different books in this series. Most of them feature scenes between Kate and Curran, but are done from Curran's point of view. There are a couple that cover times when Kate wasn't there (on...more
Although I love, love, love Curran, I don't think I liked being inside his head. It was funny and pretty awesome seeing his POV for some of my favorite scenes in Kate's books. I guess I got used to Kate's thoughts and not so much Curran and his very short thoughts.
Curran makes me smile every time he appears in a scene! I loved hearing his reasoning for the soup. You know, I was wondering why he held the bowl and looked at it for a while! That part made me smile all over again.
One of my favorite...more
Curran makes me smile every time he appears in a scene! I loved hearing his reasoning for the soup. You know, I was wondering why he held the bowl and looked at it for a while! That part made me smile all over again.
One of my favorite...more
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This only about 25 pages long, but it was well worth the read. I really enjoy the Kate Daniels series and the idea of reading a few key scenes from Curran's POV was inticing. The scenes from his POV included the first meeting in Unicorn Lane when Kate says "Here Kitty, kitty, kitty.", the scene where Curran finds her dying in her kitchen after being attacked and poisoned (when Julie calls Curran to save to Kate) and the follow up where he first feeds her by giving her soup, and a synopsis of the...more
Curran:Volume 1 is a supplement to the Kate Daniels series that presents a number of scenes from Curran's point of view (shocking based on the title, I know, I know). From his perspective we learn how he grows to love Kate. Naturally, these inserts aren't quite as fulfilling as reading an entire novel, but I did enjoy what we got. In the usual Kate Daniels fashion, you'll get a little bit of comedy, a little bit of drama, and a little bit of action. All I have to say is it's hard out there for a...more
This isn't a short story or a novella. This is a collection of scenes written by Gordon Andrews as a companion to our Kate Daniels series of books. These scenes illustrate the point of view of Curran, the Beast Lord of Atlanta and are provided in gratitude to our readers for all of their support. This collection isn't meant to stand on its own as an independent work of fiction.
I bought Curran from Amazon without realising you could get it for free if you wanted or you could pay a small amount fo...more
I bought Curran from Amazon without realising you could get it for free if you wanted or you could pay a small amount fo...more
It was okay, I felt like Curran's POV was a bit stiff, but it was interesting nonetheless.
I hadn't known this was available as free until now.
There are four scenes from each of the four books that are presently out:
Magic Bites--when Curran and Kate meet.
Magic Burns--soup scene
Magic Strikes--when Curran's trapped in the Loupe cage
Magic Bleeds--the little, um, scene before the People and the Pack have their ritual dinner
There was also a teaser from the first chapter of Magic Strikes.
I hadn't known this was available as free until now.
There are four scenes from each of the four books that are presently out:
Magic Bites--when Curran and Kate meet.
Magic Burns--soup scene
Magic Strikes--when Curran's trapped in the Loupe cage
Magic Bleeds--the little, um, scene before the People and the Pack have their ritual dinner
There was also a teaser from the first chapter of Magic Strikes.
This is a short scene set, intended as a companion to Ilona Andrews's Kate Daniels Novels.
This was an interesting read. Certainly not something you could read as a stand alone. You definitely need to have read the Kate Daniels book first for anything to make sense.
I'd never considered Curran's POV while reading the Kate Daniels novels. Unlike a lot of writing that is published these days, having a husband and wife team write together adds a lot of depth and really fleshes out the characters well...more
This was an interesting read. Certainly not something you could read as a stand alone. You definitely need to have read the Kate Daniels book first for anything to make sense.
I'd never considered Curran's POV while reading the Kate Daniels novels. Unlike a lot of writing that is published these days, having a husband and wife team write together adds a lot of depth and really fleshes out the characters well...more
I won't be totally critical of this little book. I wasn't expecting it to be anything really deep or revealing. I just thought that it would be fun to see some scenes through Curran's eyes. I didn't feel bad for paying 99 cents for it. It was definitely worth that. It just wasn't as in depth as I was hoping. It seemed like during each of the scenes I was expecting a little more insight into Curran's thoughts. Some of the time it seemed as if his thoughts were entirely too simple and vague for ho...more
First Curran's point of view in Kate Daniels's series.
Oops, my bad. I read the second (Fathers and Sons) before I read this. But honestly, it was okay to see Curran's point of view but I want it to be longer!!! T^T
And yeah, seeing Kate in Curran's eyes is kinda funny, if I don't feel like kicking Curran in his gut. I mean, come on, I can see he has feelings to Kate since the second book, but why take times to show them to Kate, for Heaven's sake?? And although it is only the most interesting par...more
Oops, my bad. I read the second (Fathers and Sons) before I read this. But honestly, it was okay to see Curran's point of view but I want it to be longer!!! T^T
And yeah, seeing Kate in Curran's eyes is kinda funny, if I don't feel like kicking Curran in his gut. I mean, come on, I can see he has feelings to Kate since the second book, but why take times to show them to Kate, for Heaven's sake?? And although it is only the most interesting par...more
Just a heads up for those that didn't read the description. These are a series of excerpts written by one of the authors, Gorden(even though I know you don't read these reviews thank you so much for taking the extra time for them), for the pleasure of the fans. Each is taken from one book or another in the Magic series and written from one of the main characters, Curran's, point of view. I've seen too many reviews that were negative from readers who DO NOT pay attention and read the descriptions...more
When I first saw this, I was excited to get a glimpse of what Curran was thinking during key moments with Kate. I know this wasn't written by Ilona, so I didn't expect her writing style. I also knew they would more like snippets of a plot instead of the full story. However, I did expect good writing, and unfortunately, this didn't deliver. I get that it's a free story, but would it be too much to expect that it would be proof read? There were typographical errors galore. In addition, and this ma...more
Curran's point of view of scenes from the first four books; really needed some editing. But, hey -- free bonus material. Ordinarily I'd just give it a rating and move on, but I have to comment, because reading this made me like the books less.
Novel-Curran isn't perfect, but he's complex. He has his reasons for being a jerk sometimes, but basically, he's a good guy. The guy in this bonus material is just kind of a jerk, period. So, it made me wonder. Maybe novel-Kate sees qualities in Curran tha...more
Novel-Curran isn't perfect, but he's complex. He has his reasons for being a jerk sometimes, but basically, he's a good guy. The guy in this bonus material is just kind of a jerk, period. So, it made me wonder. Maybe novel-Kate sees qualities in Curran tha...more
I love, love, love Kate Daniels. But this book disappointed me - I could not go on reading because it was so badly edited.
But recently I read a blog post by Ilona Andrews (below) which made me understand better and am definitely looking forward to more of Curran's pov.
Ilona:
"Shortly after releasing Curran POV, Volume I, we began receiving emails asking us to put it on Amazon and BN. People wanted the convenience of one-click delivery. It took us a while to get the formatting right, and when the...more
But recently I read a blog post by Ilona Andrews (below) which made me understand better and am definitely looking forward to more of Curran's pov.
Ilona:
"Shortly after releasing Curran POV, Volume I, we began receiving emails asking us to put it on Amazon and BN. People wanted the convenience of one-click delivery. It took us a while to get the formatting right, and when the...more
Bought this by accident, then decided to keep it since it looked fun. I gave it two stars because I appreciate what the two authors are doing but, if not for that i would have given it zero. Giving the fans a perspective not given in the other books is nice of them in theory, but not in practice. The writing was extremely sub-par and needed serious editing. I love the well developed characters in the Kate Daniels series and was disappointed with a lack luster narration, where Curran spelled out...more
FREE (ie don't buy off amazon - get it from Ilona Andrew's website) collection of 4 short passages from Curran's pov. 1 for each book up to Magic Bleeds.
It was interesting enough for a free companion. I love short stories and novella's set in longer books worlds so I was happy
I read each section after the book it was in:
Magic Bites - (view spoiler)
Magic Burns - (view spoiler)
Magic Strikes - (view spoiler)...more
It was interesting enough for a free companion. I love short stories and novella's set in longer books worlds so I was happy
I read each section after the book it was in:
Magic Bites - (view spoiler)
Magic Burns - (view spoiler)
Magic Strikes - (view spoiler)...more
I love reading other perspectives for my favorite books (I mean I have read several books about Pride and Prejudice written from Darcy's perspective!)
This has little snippets from Curran's POV from Magic Bites, Magic Burns, Magic Strikes, and Magic Bleeds. Each reveals just a bit more about Curran's reasoning, and fills in some of those holes that occur the first person character isn't present for a time period.
Seriously, if you love the Kate Daniels series AT ALL you need to read this. Besides...more
This has little snippets from Curran's POV from Magic Bites, Magic Burns, Magic Strikes, and Magic Bleeds. Each reveals just a bit more about Curran's reasoning, and fills in some of those holes that occur the first person character isn't present for a time period.
Seriously, if you love the Kate Daniels series AT ALL you need to read this. Besides...more
Dec 23, 2010
Kj
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4 of 5 stars
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This was very,very, short.The few pages it contained were quite good but I wish there was A LOT more!!! The magic series has fast become one of my top favorite book series of all times. I didn't expect a lot when I started and I even accidentally read the second book first but this series was so worth reading. Kate is actually pretty funny and over dramatic and Curran is just a big teddy bear trying act tough. I love the way they both act like he would kill her for disobeying him when in reality...more
Plot: This novella has four or five short stories, all told at a different time. They were often hard to follow, and I felt the endings of all of them were severe cliffhangers. However, the romantic bickering between the two characters was certainly charming and worth it.
Characters: The two main characters are the typical couple: they fight back and forth denying their attraction for each other. It was the only thing that kept my interest.
Setting: Too much jumping round between the stories to pi...more
Characters: The two main characters are the typical couple: they fight back and forth denying their attraction for each other. It was the only thing that kept my interest.
Setting: Too much jumping round between the stories to pi...more
After reading these short few pages I find myself hungering for more. Often during one of the Kate/Curran scenes I've wondered about Curran's perspective, and finally this gives us a glimpse into his viewpoint.
As always it only took a minute or two for me to have a smile from ear to ear :)
This is definitely not something that can be read and appreciated without knowing the background to the fragments. So if you haven't read the books yet, I would recommend starting from the beginning.
Now even m...more
As always it only took a minute or two for me to have a smile from ear to ear :)
This is definitely not something that can be read and appreciated without knowing the background to the fragments. So if you haven't read the books yet, I would recommend starting from the beginning.
Now even m...more
Dec 13, 2011
Trix
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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This was a cute insight into Curran's mind.
It lined up well with Curran's personality from the "Kate Daniels" series, providing more depth to the character. Of course, most of the information given here can be inferred from the overall of the Kate Daniels books. But it's nice to have it presented with a touch of something that is uniquely Curran.
(view spoiler)...more
It lined up well with Curran's personality from the "Kate Daniels" series, providing more depth to the character. Of course, most of the information given here can be inferred from the overall of the Kate Daniels books. But it's nice to have it presented with a touch of something that is uniquely Curran.
(view spoiler)...more
This collection is definitely for fans of the Kate Daniels series. This is just a few snippets of Curran's thoughts. The original stories are so well written that most of what we read in this collection is implied very well. I still enjoyed this, especially Curran's POV of when they first met, and what his first impressions are of Kate when they encounter each other on Unicorn Lane. It makes me think of the deleted scenes that they show in the special features of a collector's DVD of a favorite...more
This is an ebook collection of all the snippets from Curran's point of view in the Kate Daniels books, so it's not an actual book. However, I loved reading from Curran's point of view and reading his thoughts. I loved seeing his perspective of the same scenes that we read from Kate's point of view in the books and seeing how different each was. Quirky, funny, enlightening to a point, I loved it and I hope there are more snippets from Curren's point of view (though having a whole book from his po...more
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“She crouched with her hand out. What the hell was she doing…
"Here, kitty, kitty, kitty."
Oh my God, she was retarded and I was going to kill Jim.”
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"Here, kitty, kitty, kitty."
Oh my God, she was retarded and I was going to kill Jim.”
“But she was funny sometimes, and never boring. God, it would almost be worth it to see her face when she realized that I had saved her ass again.
Actually it was quite a nice ass, come to think of it. In fact, my memory of the ass and its owner seemed to be remarkably clear.”
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