Clean Sweep (Innkeeper Chronicles, #1) in Read, Reading, Planning to Read and More

Feb 22, 2016 Paula rated it it was amazing

Shelves: ebooks, series, action, rereadable, favorites, urban-paranormal, shapeshifter, vampire, audio, 2022

rereading
rereading
time to do another read through this great series.

This time I am listening to a Graphic Audio presentation. loved it. not listed on gr.
relistening to Graphic Audio presentation again

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Jan 08, 2016 Gogol rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, likeable-heroine, swoonworthy-hero, fun-banter, alpha-hero, pnr, gallant-hero, cool-capable-heroine

Ilona Andrews are my favourite authors, I would even be interested to read their take on a phone book. But I'm not the least bit biased when I say this series is marvelous and that you should read it. And that I envy you who have not yet read it for the thrill in store for you. Not that I don't reread this book on a regular basis, but the first thrill of discovery is always something else.

I'm not even going to address the writing, character development, plot line, pacing, ......, these factors a Ilona Andrews are my favourite authors, I would even be interested to read their take on a phone book. But I'm not the least bit biased when I say this series is marvelous and that you should read it. And that I envy you who have not yet read it for the thrill in store for you. Not that I don't reread this book on a regular basis, but the first thrill of discovery is always something else.

I'm not even going to address the writing, character development, plot line, pacing, ......, these factors are a given in any and all IA books. I'm going to write about the world building, which is just plain fantastic, magical, spellbinding, exciting,.... you get the picture.

In these books, which are at the same time loosely connected to the Edge series, but can be read alone, our world is a multi dimensional, as well as multi planetary universe. Say, Star Wars meets Howl's moving castle, meets one thousand and one nights, meets the Elegant Universe by Brian Greene. In this complex system, earth's a neutral planet protected by very complex and strict inter planetary and interdimensional laws, and inns are the safe havens where, once a guest checks in, they are protected by all the magical might and power of the inn and its keepers, and the complete power exerted and executed by the entire inter galactic and inter-magical-realms governing bodies. Inns are scattered around earth, some are even located in the middle of suburbs under the unsuspecting, and sometimes suspicious, noses of their denizens. They look like ordinary houses from the outside, but once inside you step in a realm where the laws of physics, as known to most of us, don't rule. Rooms expand or shrink, the inn might repel a guest, or keep them in holding, turn its attic into a grand ballroom, open a portal unto a faraway desert on the other end of the galaxy, or inside an interdimensional bazaar. The sole ruler of the inn, is its keeper, and the inn is the source of the innkeepers power. In this book it is the heroine who is the keeper. The hero is an infuriatingly noble, charismatic, beauiful,.... well, hero. He's not precisely a man so to speak. There are two other books to rate and rave about. Which is where I'll write the rest of my review. ...more

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Apr 23, 2014 Josephine rated it really liked it

*** 3.5 stars ***

I am a huge fan of the Kate Daniels series by Ilona Andrews. It is one of the most entertaining urban fantasy series I have read to date. So, when I saw that Clean Sweep was finally being published in its entirety—it was previously posted a snippet at a time on the authors’ website—I knew I needed to finally get my hands on it. I deliberately chose not to read it on their blog, because having to wait for the next novel in a series is bad enough. One chapter (if you’re lucky) at ...more

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