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IAAA - Ilona Andrews Addicts Anonymous: Kate Daniels: Wilmington Years & Other spinoffs (December 2024)
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Jan 09, 2024 05:44AM
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(I was going to wait until Iron Druid Chronicles thread was closer to ending, before making the thread, but everyone around here is so overbooked right now, they'd rather make things official and get it on their trackers, so I'm making it now...)
With this Auther / Collection of Series, I think I might make new threads for different series, as we go along, since there are plans for some people to join for specific series, and not everything, but I'm just going to make this first thread for now, and put the schedule here at the top:
April 2024 = Kate Daniels 1-4
#0.5) A Questionable Client -- (included in Small Magics)
#1) Magic Bites -- April 1st
#2) Magic Burns -- April 8th
#3) Magic Strikes -- April 15th
#3.5) Magic Mourns
#4) Magic Bleeds -- April 22nd
#4.5) Magic Dreams -- (Dali's 1st story)
#X) Curran POV -- mostly takes place during all 4 books -- (included in Small Magics)
May 2024 = Kate Daniels 5-7
#5) Magic Slays -- May 6th
#5.4) Gunmetal Magic -- May 13th -- (Andrea's story)
#5.5) Magic Gifts -- overlaps Gunmetal Magic (I think it's bundled, even on audio... I know it is in the ebook)
#5.6) Magic Tests -- (included in Small Magics)
#5.7) Retribution Clause -- (included in Small Magics)
#6) Magic Rises -- May 20th
#6.5) Magic Steals -- (Dali's 2nd story)
#7) Magic Breaks -- May 27th
#7.5) Curran POV -- last 2 parts, including Jim's POV -- (included in Small Magics)
June 2024 = Kate Daniels 8-10
#8) Magic Shifts -- June 3rd
#8.5) Magic Stars -- (Juli's story)
#9) Magic Binds -- June 10th
#9.5) Iron and Magic -- June 17th -- (Hugh's story)
#10) Magic Triumphs -- June 24th
#10.5) Small Magics -- Of Swine & Rose, and Grace of Small Magics are standalones set in KD World... only 2 short stories not read, by this point...
July 2024 = Edge 1-4: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
#1) On the Edge -- July 1st
#1.1) George and Jack in School -- https://ilona-andrews.com/george-and-...
#2) Bayou Moon -- July 8th
#3) Fate's Edge -- July 15th
#4) Steel's Edge -- July 22nd
August 2024 = Hidden Legacy 1-3: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
#1) Burn for Me -- August 5th
#2) White Hot -- August 15th
#3) Wildfire -- August 25th
(There's some flash fiction floating around, like some Rogan POVs, but nothing officially released, the way it was in the KD series)
September 2024 = Innkeeper Chronicles 1-4
#0.1) Gerard Demille and Helen Meet
#1) Clean Sweep -- September 2nd
#2) Sweep in Peace -- September 9th
#3) One Fell Sweep -- September 16th
#4) Sweep of the Blade -- September 23rd -- (Maud's story)
October 2024 = Innkeeper Chronicles 4.5-5 + Kinsmen
Innkeeper Chronicles
#4.5) Sweep with Me -- October 7th
#5) Sweep of the Heart -- October 14th
Kinsmen -- novella series
#1) Silent Blade -- October 21st (included in The Kinsmen Universe)
#2) Silver Shark -- October 21st (included in The Kinsmen Universe)
#3) Fated Blades -- October 28th
November 2024 = Hidden Legacy 4-6 -- Catalina Trilogy: : https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
#3.5) Diamond Fire
#4) Sapphire Flames -- November 4th
#5) Emerald Blaze -- November 11th
#6) Ruby Fever -- November 18th
(Again there's some flash fiction floating around. Snippets, deleted scenes, Arabella POVs)
December 2024 = The Rest
Aurelia Ryder / Julie Lennart-Olson / etc
#1) Blood Heir -- December 2nd
Wilmington Years
#1) Magic Tides -- December 9th
#2) Magic Claims -- December 16th
#2.1) Purpose -- https://ilona-andrews.com/purpose/
#2.2) No Heroes -- https://ilona-andrews.com/no-heroes/
#X) Sanctuary -- Roman Serial -- releasing Summer 2024 -- https://ilona-andrews.com/category/bl...
Ilona Andrews is one of my favorite authors, and can't wait to share it with some new readers and old re-readers like myself...
EDIT: Updated plan for clarity/straggler discussions... we'll use this thread primarily for the Kate Daniels content in April/May/June/December...
I'll make new threads as the BR Club progresses in July (Edge thread), August (Hidden Legacy thread), and September (Innkeeper Chronicles + Kinsman Universe thread)... sometimes we'll be alternating between threads each month (especially Hidden Legacy in November and Kate Daniels revisit in December)...
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EDIT: I also mentioned the first book in each series, if we are reading multiple different series in a single month (October and December, as we wrap things up)...
Gotta love the "." in the first post, it is a tried and true workaround lol
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It seems pretty obvious that whatever is going wrong, is in the first post, and not in the title...
This is the most insane schedule I've seen, I love it.
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I do the short stories if I own them and/or they're available on audio (so it varies alot by series... I've done all the Dresden shorts, Iron Druid shorts, most of the Ilona Andrews shorts, and a fair bit of Nalini Singh and some others...
I was better about Seanan McGuire in my ebook days... same with T.A. Pratt...
Nirkatze really likes to do the short stories tho, even if it means alternating between audio and ebooks...
Even without them, it's basically a book a week, or a book every 10 days for the trilogy months...
I got into a rhythm with Ann-Marie doing that, last summer... we're pretty good at using one another as impetus to jump into the next book now (even as Nirkatze & Choko fell far behind on the Cycle of Arawn/Galand series)... even Ann-Marie has her limits, tho :D ... by the time she/we rated The 13th God one star, she skipped Cycle of the Scour... which I went ahead with, since I had the audios, and gave decent 3-4 star ratings...
I really like the KD schedule here, because 1-4 is a solid first arc to the series romantically, and with Erra at the end... 5-7 finishes out Ilona Andrews' original plan for the series, before they realized the ending was unrealistic, and changed it and added on a 2nd arc trilogy that made more sense for 8-10 and the main ending to the series...
The rest of it was a bit of a toss-up that took me longer to sort out, initially... and Kinsmen, I've only read Fated Blades I think, so #1-2 and the extra short story in the omnibus will be new to me... and they're some of IA's oldest works, I think...
Timelord Iain wrote: "I got into a rhythm with Ann-Marie doing that, last summer... we're pretty good at using one another as impetus to jump into the next book now (even as Nirkatze & Choko fell far behind on the Cycle of Arawn/Galand series)... even Ann-Marie has her limits, tho :D ... by the time she/we rated The 13th God one star, she skipped Cycle of the Scour... which I went ahead with, since I had the audios, and gave decent 3-4 star ratings..."I missed buying book 1 in Scour when it was on sale and I refused to buy it after reading the shit show that was the last few Galand books! I was thinking this weekend that I really do need to finish those, I refuse to let them win!
I actually keep meaning to reread her books, but I don't think I can keep up with this schedule. I might give it a go to start but then break off and continue at my own pace.
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Totally understandable... and has kinda happened to some extent with all these binge BRs...
1/2 the people doing In Death mostly kept up with the weeklies, but fell behind by a month once or twice and binged even faster to catch back up... others just did at their own/library checkout pace all along...
Me and Ann-Marie were the most consistent in the Arawn/Galand thread... Nirkatze and Choko tried to catch up in September, and neither quite managed for various reasons (the dwindling quality being among them)...
Iron Druid is going well, so far, but the books are much shorter... I hope that carries over into Ilona Andrews... the books aren't tomes, but vary from short books to sizeable books, I'd say... lots of fun character stuff and dialogue, tho...
If you decide to read at your own pace and pop in, I can always talk Ilona Andrews book plots...
Yay, so excited! I'm definitely going to be one who hops in and out!! 🤣
@Title of Club - LOL! I, too, will be hopping in when I can. I think I'll be about two weeks behind on every title.
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As long as I'm responsible for 99% of Book Club binge threads, and we only have 1 Mystery and 1 Other running at a time, I think it's manageable... (excluding old ones that carry on forever)...
Thanks for making this thread Iain! That's a lot of work... I really appreciate it, especially since I'm a big factor of the "everyone" who was bugging you for something official...I find that if I have the dates in my tracker, I'm less likely to fall behind... only 4 more books in In Death to finish! Still plan to get back to Arawn at some point, I refuse to give up...
I'm definitely going to try to go the distance with these--a lot of them are on Hoopla or Libby, but some only have the Graphic Audio... which I might try for the Innkeeper series since it's not been that long since we read them, just for something different...
End note: Adding a ditto for the thread title love. You come up with great title ideas Iain!
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Since we're Ilona Andrews Addicts here...The authors just posted a tiny new Innkeeper snippet about Klaus and what he wanted to talk to Maud about at the end of Sweep of the Blade: https://ilona-andrews.com/blog/i-will...
There's a Roman serial being released right now. It starts here: https://ilona-andrews.com/blog/sanctu...
Enjoy!
OMG Thanks for sharing Narilka, that Maud & Klaus bit was hilarious, and so in tune... I'm surprised he didn't guess that would be the reaction... (view spoiler)
THANK YOU NARILKA, you're just feeding my addiction :D
I've just read the Klaus snippet and IT IS EVRYTHING!
Nirkatze wrote: "OMG Thanks for sharing Narilka, that Maud & Klaus bit was hilarious, and so in tune... I'm surprised he didn't guess that would be the reaction... [spoilers removed]"Or perhaps he did and wanted that reaction ;)
So I am yet to join any buddy read on this group, even though I have been member for more than a year. This one is right up my alley though and I can audiobook most of it so should be able to fit into my schedule. I have read Kate Daniels as well as some short stories like the Kinsmen but I am yet to start their other series or continue with the new Kate Daniels books. This is great motivation. Gotta read everything from a favourite author right? Like can you even call someone favourite author when you have only read one series from them? (Unless ofc they only have one.)
Narilka wrote: "Since we're Ilona Andrews Addicts here...The authors just posted a tiny new Innkeeper snippet about Klaus and what he wanted to talk to Maud about at the end of Sweep of the Blade: https://ilona-..."
Oohhh thanks for posting this! Will read it tonight.
Marie wrote: "So I am yet to join any buddy read on this group, even though I have been member for more than a year. This one is right up my alley though and I can audiobook most of it so should be able to fit i..."Looks like your first BR will be a big one, hope you enjoy!
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Or perhaps h..."
Yea... the commenters can't decide if Klaus is as devious as George... mostly because he's been an AWOL asshat for the past decade+...
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I want MOAR... Roman's menagerie of Russian pagan monster critters are classic Ilona Andrews... wonder if we'll meet the potential future love interest... right now, my guess is (view spoiler)
Loving the neighbors, too... I'll probably wait for this to finish before reading more... I'm terrible at doing 1/2 chapter per week...
Skimmed through the newest blog posts, and see that Kid 2 is becoming a writer... kudos to them for not namedropping, and maintaining anonymity... debuting as the child of a famous-ish author has it's ups and downs...
Their blog is very active and a great place for updates. I like checking in a couple times a week.
Marie wrote: "So I am yet to join any buddy read on this group, even though I have been member for more than a year. This one is right up my alley though and I can audiobook most of it so should be able to fit i..."Welcome Marie! Glad to have you join us! And can totally call someone a favorite author, even if it's just for one book!
Marie wrote: "So I am yet to join any buddy read on this group, even though I have been member for more than a year. This one is right up my alley though and I can audiobook most of it so should be able to fit i..."Yay, this is such an epic BR to join!
Thank you, Ann-Marie, Nirkatze, and Charlie for the warm welcome!You are right Nirkatze that a favorite author can become a favorite after one book but I still feel like I should read a substantial amount from an author or at least the series considered their best. Like I call Brandon Sanderson my favorite author yet it irks me I am yet to read the Stormlight Archive. Maybe it's more like, why the hell have I not read everything from them yet if I call them my favorite author?
Yay I've been wanting to finish Kate Daniels! I might skip Hidden Legacy since I read that last year. Had a fun time with it though!
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This'll be my 5+ re-read of some of these... and at least 3+ on pretty much everything but the newest stuff...
By the time we get to everything, there should be some new stuff, too... like the current KD World serial running on their website following Roman dealing with a situation at Christmastime...
Maybe the next/final Innkeeper Chronicles, too... that would be awesome... that snippet has me hyped... I can't remember if the Maluka or whatever it's called was mentioned in earlier stories or not... i remember a few stories from childhood inn times...
@Iain the Maluka was in Sweep of the Blade, bloody terrifying things!
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That's pretty good for a series with so many short stories, honestly... including all the Curran/Jim POVs... the only things missing are some flash fiction, non-canon stuff, and recent stuff on the website I think...
I need to get back to reading the Roman web serial off the website at some point... been a few months since I checked on that... it's a short Christmas-themed story... I think we talked a bit about it on here, if I scroll up...
I've kept up with the Roman serial. It's fun though I'm looking forward for the whole thing to be packaged as a full story to read straight through.
Which sub-set series is the Roman Serial (or Roman Character) in?
I haven't read the Roman serial, I've been saving myself for the Ebook (which I hope is coming out!). I can't do weekly serials I'm too impatient.
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Kate Daniels
EDIT: Roman is a Russian Volvh in the KD world... him & his family start appearing around book 3-6, I think... I know it's the 2nd or 3rd appearance of the Oracle characters, in the series, when you start seeing (view spoiler)
EDIT EDIT: Goodreads has a character profile that says Roman appears in books 5, 5.5, and 9... sounds right... #9 for sure... and I know he has a thing for Andrea Nash for awhile, so it makes sense he's in 5 & 5.5...
Charlie wrote: "I haven't read the Roman serial, I've been saving myself for the Ebook (which I hope is coming out!). I can't do weekly serials I'm too impatient."I'm normally like this too but needed some new Ilona Andrews in my life :)
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With Innkeeper Chronicles, I think it's more commissioned, because I don't know how much art exists out there for religious space chickens...
Wait, how do you read the serial? Is it on their website?
Yes, on their website. Direct link in message 18.
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I'm just loving being in Roman's head... not sure how old he is now, but he's really turning into a grumpy Russian hermit... always kinda was, just younger... and his perspective on being a dark priest is great (that's shown in the main series, too, in smaller doses)...
Narilka wrote: "Yes, on their website. Direct link in message 18."missed that thanks
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Was talking about the serial in another group Thursday, so it was on my mind... but apparently Ilona & Gordon got a bit busy on Thursday, themselves:
https://ilona-andrews.com/blog/no-rom...
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