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Emerald Blaze (Hidden Legacy, #5)

Ilona Andrews

Start date: September 1, 2020

Finish date: September 30, 2020

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Sep 11, 2021 Midu Hadi rated it really liked it

Shelves: series, serial-killers-and-other-murderers, read-in-september, reviewed, humor, series-completion-in-progress, magick, urban-fantasy, middlers, magical-objects

Disclaimers about All Ilona Andrews Heroines

They have now begun to sound like the same character.
They are all too skilled in subjects they shouldn’t know much about
Things seem to work out for them in a very unlikely manner

My Review

With this book, we return to solid Ilona Andrews territory where everything is always about family–FnF style

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What’s more, they’ve also got their grandma-flavored humor mojo back and her over-the-top antics make for some quite fun reading.

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Aug 26, 2020 Monadh rated it it was amazing

Shelves: magic, uf, action, series, mystery

Superb, faced-paced, action-driven UF adventure

Once again, what an exhilerating and action-driven ride this has been! This ist he 5th full length novel in the Hidden Legacy series and the 2nd book in Catalina and Alessandro’s story. Ilona Andrews books always give me the worst book hangovers and I don’t know how I am going to cope with waiting a year for the conclusion to come out.

Book one, Sapphire Flames had ended on a not so good a note with Alessandro feeling compelled to go off to pursue hi Superb, faced-paced, action-driven UF adventure

Once again, what an exhilerating and action-driven ride this has been! This ist he 5th full length novel in the Hidden Legacy series and the 2nd book in Catalina and Alessandro’s story. Ilona Andrews books always give me the worst book hangovers and I don’t know how I am going to cope with waiting a year for the conclusion to come out.

Book one, Sapphire Flames had ended on a not so good a note with Alessandro feeling compelled to go off to pursue his vengeance (without us – the readers – really knowing what drove him) and Catalina left behind with a broken heart, although Alessandro never promised her anything. But Catalina can’t afford to mope around, because even at her young age she is stuck taking care of her family as she is now the head of the family.

I have to say I was quite sceptical in the beginning (of Catalina and Alessandro’s) story, when the narrative perspective switched from Nevada to Catalina, who is around 21, because normally such a young heroine wouldn’t be my thing at all. But because of the responsibility she has had thrust on her, Catalina feels mature much beyond her years. And Alessandro, who is only a few years Catalina’s senior has been in the position of de facto provider for his own family for a long time, as it turns out. Although I usually like my heroes and heroines quite a bit older, I was ok with these two, because they both came across as mature and responsible.

Catalina is just slowly getting over having her heart broken, when she is assigned a new case in her capacity as the Deputy Warden, so she can’t refuse it. On the surface it appears to be a simple murder of one of five partners involved in a municipal construction project. But things are not as simple as they appear on the surface, and soon Catalina and her whole family are once more immersed in complicated House machinations. And to make matters worse, Alessandro not only reappears, but he manages to insert himself into the case in such a way that Catalina is forced to work together with him…

I always marvel how Ilona Andrews is able to deliver such action-filled non-stop tension, with all the right feels on a tapestry of imaginative and original world-building, with interesting and likable side-characters and a mystery that keeps the reader racing across the pages until the very end.
I can’t get enough of the Andrews’ writing: 5 shining stars! ...more

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