Various Thoughts

The fourth book in Ilona Andrews‘ Kate Daniels series ups the ante a bit further, facing Kate off against her aunt and having her secret heritage become quite a bit less secret. While there is still Hugh and Roland himself remaining, with Erra down it’s difficult to imagine the battles getting much more epic in scale. I’m wondering if Andrews has a specific endgame in mind for the series, like Lilith Saintcrow’s Dante Valentine series, or if she plans to extend it indefinitely. I’m leaning toward the former due to the way the Babylonian myths have been integrated and their connections to Kate slowly revealed.

Web of Lies is Jennifer Estep‘s second Elemental Assassin novel and shares all the qualities of the first while advancing both storyline and character development. The main difference is that Gin’s star-crossed romance with the detective appears to have been concluded in a more final manner. The increase in Gin’s power level isn’t as off-putting as it could be thanks to the way she only uses elemental magic as a last resort. That could, of course, change in the future as the stage has been set to pit her against the Fire Elemental from her past.

Magic Strikes & Bound to ShadowsSomehow, I forgot to post about Ilona Andrews‘ Magic Strikes back when I first read it. It serves to advance both Kate’s relationship with Curran and the inevitable conflict with her father in large leaps. It’s just as good as the first two books in the series. Perhaps even a little...

Magic Bites & Magic BurnsThese two books by Ilona Andrews take place roughly a hundred years in the future, where magic has returned to the world and wrecked havoc on man’s technological achievements. The world now shifts between ‘magic’ (when technological devices such as cars and guns cease working) and ‘tech’ (when technological items work...

Frostbitten and On the EdgeFrostbitten is the most recent entry in Kelley Armstrong’s Women of the Otherworld series. I can’t say that this entry expands the series in any notable way, instead it’s pretty much more of the same. This can be good or bad depending on your feelings for the books that focus...

The Devil’s Playground, The Better Part of Darkness, & Spider’s BiteThe Devil’s Playground continues, and sort of concludes, Jenna Black’s Morgan Kingsley series. I had thought this storyline could be dragged on forever with all the various characters’ comments about how Dougal could just sit in the demon realm and wait until Lugh finally slipped up and showed himself. Interestingly, Black decided to instead have Dougal occupy...

Tempted & ScorchedThe latest in P. C. and Kristin Cast’s House of Night series has completely turned me off from any continuations. I’m not quite sure if it was specific to this book, or had been present and ignored across the entire set, but it’s too focused on specific characterizations and not enough on...

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