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Magic Bites (Kate Daniels, #1)

Ilona Andrews

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Sep 17, 2015 Joanne rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 5-star

Luckily I was forewarned by all my GR friends that this one takes a bit of work to get into. I usually put off picking up fantasy in general because of the extra "work" it takes to learn the rules of how the world works. Going into this one expecting to have to pay attention helped. I made sure to pause when new information was given to fit it into the picture I was forming of the world and I think it really made a difference. I found myself actually enjoying all the world-building.

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Oct 08, 2018 Francisca Viegas rated it really liked it

Shelves: fantasy, read-in-english, owned, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023

22/10/2023
Listened to the Graphic Audio version. Some things weren’t perfectly adapted and I noticed a few parts lacked editing but overall it was a good experience. Not sure if I’d recommend it for first time readers though, Kate can sound a bit whiny.

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Oct 23, 2018 Ellie rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobooks, real-world-fantasy

I keep seeing the Kate Daniels series by Ilona Andrews mentioned and it's been a while since I read this kind of urban fantasy so I grabbed Magic Bites from the library. It's set in the future after a major magical event which means magic and tech can't co-exist at the same time. When magic rises, electricity doesn't work, and when the tech rises, spells fail.

Other than that it's quite standard urban fantasy fare but so many magical creatures are thrown at you in a short space of time. I think t ...more

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