#Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews

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Book recommendation: week 2

Book 2

Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews

This Urban fantasy takes us into a world that’s caught between magic and technology. When magic is up, modern technology fails and monsters appear. It’s a mess and it’s up to people like mercenary Kate Daniels to clean it up. When her guardian is killed, she goes on a quest for justice. 

This draws her right in-between two of the most powerful magical factions in Atlanta: The masters of the dead, who control the vampires and the Park, a paramilitary clan of shapeshifters. 

What drew me in was the wonderful writing style of this writing couple. They’ve created complex, flawed characters to love and hate in a world constantly undergoing change. And the write with such witty humour. Kate is a character that doesn’t know when to bite her tongue or how to pull out of a challenge. And personally I love the side characters as well. 

[quirkycatsfatstacks]

Review: Graphic Audio – Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews

Series: Kate Daniels #1Author(s): Ilona Andrews (Ilona and Andrew Gordon) Find it on Goodreads | Graphic Audio | More Urban Fantasy Graphic Audio Review: So, I have recently fallen in love with the magic that is Graphic Audio (you can thank the MuderBot Dairies for that). Since I’m currently waiting for the next installment of MurderBot, I thought I would try one of my all-time favorite…

[maitter-of-creepfell]

Came to me in a flash of genius

[shirecryptid]

THE FACT THEY WERE ON A "HELLO SUNSHINE" BASIS ONCE. SCREAMING CRYING FROTHING AT THE MOUTH

[doctormichaelaquinn]

I'm rereading (listening) to Magic Bites and I forgot how much of an asshole Curran can be...like I just read the part where they go to confront Crest and it turns out he's not evil actually and Curran is like wow Kate what the fuck way to screw up you horrendous egomaniac...my brother in Christ there was literally a severed head on her lawn. Crest being behind it was YOUR theory! You and your pack convinced HER!

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For a time you can be alone and doing fine and never give a thought to living any other way and then you meet someone and suddenly you become lonely. It stabs at you, almost like a physical pain, and you feel both deprived and angry, deprived because you wish to be with that person and angry, because their absence brings you misery.

Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews

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Now Reading: Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews (Kate Daniels #1)

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Ilona Andrews invites you to experience the first novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series featuring the intriguing fantasy world of mercenary Kate Daniels… When the magic is up, rogue mages cast their spells and monsters appear, while guns refuse to fire and cars fail to start. But then technology returns, and the magic recedes as unpredictably as it arose, leaving all kinds of paranormal problems in its wake. Kate Daniels is a down-on-her-luck mercenary who makes her living cleaning up these magical problems. But when Kate’s guardian is murdered, her quest for justice draws her into a power struggle between two strong factions within Atlanta’s magic circles. The Masters of the Dead, necromancers who can control vampires, and the Pack, a paramilitary clan of shapechangers, blame each other for a series of bizarre killings—and the death of Kate’s guardian may be part of the same mystery. Pressured by both sides to find the killer, Kate realizes she’s way out of her league—but she wouldn’t have it any other way…

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Buddy Reads & Rants: Magic Bites (Jonny Pongratz and Misty's Book Space)

Hello Blogging World! Misty I’m Misty, romance lover extraordinaire!! Jonny And I’m Jonny, wizard wannabe. All I need is a little magic!   This buddy read and rant is for Magic Bites (Kate Daniels #1) by Ilona Andrews.     Blurb: Ilona Andrews invites you to experience the first novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series featuring the intriguing fantasy world of mercenary Kate…

[servenna]

I am not ashamed to have dragged you down with me🤣. Awesome books!

This is the first time I've drawn something outside the Naruto fandom 😬 it's @servenna fault, your Honour!!Recently, I was introduced to the Magic Bites series and there seems to be hardly any fanart of it, which is strange since it's been around for 15 years, I think?

Anyway - Curran in the shadows when they first meet.

[diangelosnico]

books i’ve (re)read ; Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews

If someone manages to obtain some of your blood, kill him and destroy the sample. At first it was a matter of survival. Later it became a matter of vengeance.

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Urban Fantasy thoughts part 2

It's very interesting how in each urban fantasy book I have read the main character is constantly hurting for money. Then again, there have been quite a few science fiction books in which the starship captain isn't exactly raking in the dough.

Urban Fantasy main characters are deeply broken people which makes sense as they have seen a lot. Something interesting about reading about a deeply broken person who is just constantly trying to survive and defeat bad creatures.

I remember looking up Sandman Slim on youtube and seeing someone comparing the book series with Jim Butcher's Dresden Files series. So I checked out Storm Front by Jim Butcher and I just couldn't make it through it which was disappointing as the entire series was at the library it seemed. Didn't like how women were written, or at least the vampire women were, and I didn't like the main character.

Here are other urban fantasy books I did like:

-Dead Things by Stephen Blackmoore - I want to get more into this series.

-The Dead Take the A Train by Cassandra Khaw and Richard Kadrey - how I could not like this? Richard Kadrey cowrote it.

-Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone - I love the Craft Sequence series.

-White Trash Warlock by David R. Slayton - Pretty good book.

-Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire - I would read more of this book series. I haven't read many books about the fae.

-The Devil You Know by Mike Carey- Currently reading this book. I definitely would want to read more of this series.

Other urban fantasy books I have read /tried to read but will not continue.

-Storm Front by Jim Butcher- already gave my reasons. It's quite disappointing and I'm not slogging through several books before it gets better.

-Moon Called by Patricia Briggs- I didn't finish this book. Too much werewolf pack rules shit.

-Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews - It was a pretty good book. A lot of werewolf in this book. The constant talk of who is the alpha and pack rules just kind of annoys me.

-Spider’s Bite by Jennifer Estep - Once again, it was pretty good. She was a deadly assassin which was cool. Didn't like that she lusted after the cop. Sometimes I forget that urban fantasy protagonists can just be ridiculously horny.

That all being said, I possibly need more recommendations for urban fantasy. Hopefully they are the libraries I frequent.

[tryan-a-bex]

saw your rebog for fantasy/sci-fi books, would you mind giving me a recommendation list? from the authors you listed I love Naomi Novik and I'm always looking for more books to read

this is my first time sending an ask is this how you do this?

Anyway, have a good day :)

You did it right! Thanks for the ask!!!

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik was so good I flipped it and reread as soon as I finished it! I also bought Uprooted.

For Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, go to the Baen website, where Agent of Change and Fledgling are both free downloads—choose Agent of Change if you prefer action/adventure and Fledgling if you prefer school stories/coming of age.

For Sharon Shinn, I’d start with Troubled Waters from the Elemental Blessings series.

Ann Leckie: Ancillary Justice

Nnedi Okorafor: Binti (get the four-in-one if you can)

Becky Chambers: A Psalm for the Wild-Built

Wen Spencer: Tinker

Robin McKinley: The Blue Sword

Martha Wells: Murderbot series

Ilona Andrews: Magic Bites

Nalini Singh: Wolf Rain was where I started

Annette Marie: Three Mages and a Margarita

Seanan McGuire: InCryptids series (My favourite is That Ain’t Witchcraft, but probably better to start at the beginning.)

I also love AM Offenwanger’s Septimus series, starting with Seventh Son. She’s an indie author so will be very excited if you purchase her books!

And of course Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, who you know about if you’ve been on tumblr for any length of time. Good Omens is fantastic. I loved Stardust by Gaiman. My favourite of the Pratchett ones are the Tiffany Aching (which are YA) and the Rincewind ones, but there are lots of options.

I love recommending books! Thank you for asking!!!

[laura491]

For the book ask:

1, 3, 6, 20, 24?

Thanks for the asks 🙂

1. How many books did you read this year? - Including nonfiction, I count 49 books so far, still reading two atm ����

3. What were your top five books of the year? - I could count ten, but that's not the question...

A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon

Bitterthorn by Kat Dunn

The Final Strife by Saara El-Arifi

A Torch against the Night by Sabaa Tahir

Mindbreaker by Kate Dylan

(I've understood the question as favourite books I've read for the first time in 2023)

6. Was there anything you meant to read, but never got to? - Well, that's what they mean by, "So many books, so little time", right? Top of that list would be Babel by R.F. Kuang, but it's Christmas soon and my girlfriend is going to visit me for it, sooooooo...

20. What was your most anticipated release? Did it meet your expectations? - That would be Samantha Shannon's A Day of Fallen Night, since I'd booked tickets for a Q&A with her about it by the end of last year (release was in March). I listed it among my favourite reads as well, so yes, it did meet expectations 🙈 Dragons and lesbians is a gold combo 👌

24. Did you DNF anything? Why? - Two books. I got the rule that if I don't feel a book is catching me in the first 60 pages, skip to a page in between, then the end. If I still don't feel it, the book is not for me. Happened with Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews and The Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff. But only 2 books out of 40 I got this year, that's a pretty good quota I'd say 🙂

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September Monthly Recap:

Life is complicated right now - I have a big deadline coming up and I'm extremely stressed about it! That also meant I wasn't reading much because I was too busy working. So I was resigned to September being a sad month for reading but then I went on a work trip, and over the course of the four days I read 6.5 books! And when I got home I ended up reading another 8 because I started a series that turned out to be incredibly compelling and addictive. So ultimately not a bad September lol. My favorite books were all the Kate Daniels books I read - are they perfect? no. did they absolutely hit the spot? why yes, yes they did.

Witch King by Martha Wells: 4.5/5

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros: 4.75/5

The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei: 4.25/5

The Lies of the Ajungo by Moses Ose Utomi: 3.5/5

Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson: 3/5

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett: 4.5/5

Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews: 4.5/5

Magic Burns by Ilona Andrews: 4.5/5

An Illusion of Thieves by Cate Glass: 4/5

A Witch's Guide to Fake Dating a Demon by Sarah Hawley: 4.75/5

Ink by Elizabeth Hunter: 4.5/5

Magic Strikes by Ilona Andrews: 4.75/5

Magic Bleeds by Ilona Andrews: 5/5

Magic Slays by Ilona Andrews: 5/5

Magic Rises by Ilona Andrews: 5/5

Magic Breaks by Ilona Andrews: 5/5

Magic Shifts by Ilona Andrews: 5/5

Magic Binds by Ilona Andrews: 5/5

Magic Triumphs by Ilona Andrews: 5/5

Goals beneath the cut (I totally wrecked my completed vs. started series whoops):

23 in 2023: 15 [+0]

Read 100 books: 156/100 [+19]

Translated works: 4 [+0]

Physical TBR: 14 [+4]

Top of TBR: 7 [+2]

Books in Spanish: 0

Read 40% AOC: 22.8% [-1.1%]

Discworld Books: 3 [+0]

Series: 29 started vs. 29 caught up/finished [+7/+4]

Storygraph recs: 2 | avg. 3.25/5 [+0]

Indigenous authors: 2 [+1]

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Books I Read in 2023

#53 - Magic Tides, by Ilona Andrews

Rating: 3.75/5 stars

Despite it being nearly a full-length novel, compared to the main Kate Daniels series with its intricate world-building and constantly escalating action, this felt bite-size and cute. Which is fair in one sense, because it deals so much with little Conlan, and despite the known dangers of this world it's not a great idea to put a child protagonist through the same harrowing his parents went through over the course of ten books.

This is a lighter, fluffier take on Kate, a little treat for long-time readers who want her and Curran to have a happily-ever-after even if they do still have to fight monsters occasionally. Though I now see that my long-time reader status could use some shoring up, because I read this before I read some of the other post-main-story novels (Hugh's and Julie's) that appear to come first, chronologically. There's a bit of reference here to those, and it's light so I managed, but it probably would have been better for me if I'd read them in the proper order. I will have to go back for those.