Magic Slays by Ilona Andrews

[meganbmoore]

This is the fifth of Andrews' Kate Daniels books, and book 5 is when I'm used to even the good fantasy series to start heading south. Thankfully, that is not the case with these books. I suspect a large part of it is that, unlike other books in the urban fantasy genre (well, this isn't technically urban fantasy, as it's a semi-post-apocalyptic

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[ivy_chan]

I *still* have a really hard time with Curran and tend to dislike him as a character, but I do enjoy reading this series a lot and the anti-rape culture speech as performed by Kate was one of my personal highlights of the books.

One thing that kind of bugs me was when Kate used her powers in that Julie thing and Curran said: 'that wasn't you, that was fucked up' and said he'd leave her if he saw it again. On one hand I kind of got it because her power and abilities veer into the 'evil by nature' territory. On the other hand, I don't like the way it divorces that part of Kate from her, like it's not a part of her, as a person. Especially coming from someone who shifts into a beast on the hair's edge of becoming a maniacal killer. >_> I'm reserving judgment, but I'd like Kate to get to be more cool with her blood-controlling self and maybe for Curran to face that those abilities and what comes with them are part of Kate,

The thing with Julie was- I never saw it coming, still don't know what to think about it, not sure I like it. Am enjoying Kate's growing menagerie of young people/teen sidekicks, though.