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Magic Bites (Kate Daniels, #1)

Ilona Andrews

Start date: May 1, 2011

Finish date: May 31, 2011

Why we're reading this: We, the moderators, decided membership should have it's privileges. We noticed that a very active member …more
[close] We, the moderators, decided membership should have it's privileges. We noticed that a very active member of the group said they'd only ever had one book they voted for win at the polls. Well, we decided to rectify that. We will occasionally allow members (we haven't decided exactly how often) to take over a BOM choice. For our first official takeover we picked Sans. She has the highest number of comments outside of moderators. We asked which BOM she'd like to take over and this is the one she picked. So our May BOM for the Paranormal/Urban Fantasy category is Magic Bites.

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May 19, 2015 Vicky rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: z-author-american-usa, fantasy-urban, paranormal, series-stalled-or-abandoned, setting-united-states-s, setting-future-earth, zz-cover-color-black, z-author-europe-east

Kate Daniels has been a name I've heard a lot, and always with glowing recommendations about the series. I'm sad to say, she doesn't do it for me.

The world building had some interesting ideas, but I felt a little lost in the world. I listened to a good majority of this on a road trip, so maybe I missed something, but I had to look up some info on the book before I really got the magic/technology relationship.

I didn't really like Kate. I can't quite put my finger on a reason, I just didn't feel ...more

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Aug 02, 2011 Lani rated it really liked it

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I like this book a lot more than I thought I would since urban fantasy isn't a strong interest of mine. However, all of the characters were pretty engaging.

Kate was an awesome female protagonist. Strong-willed, bad ass, and independent. I found her character to be an incredibly good representation of the thoughts, feelings, and human interactions that a real person would have.

Curran is equally as awesome. I've been reading a lot of books lately with huge asshole male interests for the heroine t I like this book a lot more than I thought I would since urban fantasy isn't a strong interest of mine. However, all of the characters were pretty engaging.

Kate was an awesome female protagonist. Strong-willed, bad ass, and independent. I found her character to be an incredibly good representation of the thoughts, feelings, and human interactions that a real person would have.

Curran is equally as awesome. I've been reading a lot of books lately with huge asshole male interests for the heroine that I have no idea how anyone could like. Curran is what I feel like those authors were going for but fell far short of the mark. He's strong, dominant, and sarcastic while still managing to be likeable and not abusive (I'm looking at you Jamie from Outlander).

Their relationship is really intriguing too. I expect he'll be her main romantic interest throughout the series even if nothing officially happens for a while. They only share a single kiss at the end of this book but their entire dynamic is really nice.

I also liked Derek's character and thought he was a cute and sweet teenage boy trying to act big and tough and I hope he continues to show up throughout the series as well.

As soon as Crest was introduced as a character I suspected him of maybe being the murderer so I was pleasantly surprised when they through that suspicion into the story and it turned out not to be true. I love when I can guess the twist or who the "bad guy" is but I love even more when I fall for the author's trap and guess the wrong thing. It just makes the book that much more entertaining.

The only thing holding this book back from 5 stars for me was the world-building. What we see of the world in this novel is really interesting but Andrews doesn't really explain it at all. It's very much on a need to know basis that she threw some description of the world in. I prefer to find out a lot about the world up front because I was confused frequently when new aspects of it were introduced without really explaining what they were.

Overall a really great surprise for me and I will definitely be continuing with this series. ...more

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