It’s a sobering scene that makes you question everything you’ve learned and assumed. But in here we are cautioned there are ancient beings that Kate’s strength and magic may not work against. As readers, we are always assured Kate will win. One particular scene hammers home the contradictions between Kate’s ever growing power and her mortality. Even with the requisite conflict and battle scenes, each one has a unique twist that keeps you enthralled. I’m amazed how she is able to grow without becoming common place or run of the mill. Even though her life is submerged heavily in the fantastical and supernatural, her actions and emotions concerning her friends and family continues to remind us that she is still human. Loyal, determined, and resourceful, she is tempered with compassion and mercy. Kate is a heroine we can all readily identify with.

She has never lost herself even being eight books in. What continues to impress me most is the evolution of their heroine, Kate Daniels.

I didn’t think it was possible that the Andrews’s could improve upon the arc, various plot lines, and characters but they do so with unrivaled skill. The world building and characterization continues to grow and evolve as this dynamic wife and husband writing team begin to tighten up the arc grabbing hold of multiple storyline threads that have been left unresolved and drawing them in, and transitioning previously thought secondary characters into more solid and important positions as the end draws near. Fans have laughed, cried, shouted in anger, and cheered with joy as this heroine repeatedly steals our hearts with each new installment. We have seen her transform from a stand alone sociopath whose main objective was a revenge based plot orchestrated by her step father into a woman with friends, family, a lover, and unimaginable power. From book one fans have watched and grew to love this fearless loner whose sense of justice and morality is often indulged at great risk to her own life. Magic Shifts is the 8th book in Ilona Andrews’s complex and utterly fascinating Kate Daniels series. Ghouls, missing pack members, and an ancient god bent on revenge all fall on Kate’s shoulders when she once again in swept back into the fray with only her sword and her possessive psychotic lover at her back to keep her city and friends safe. Even with their inability to enter the Keep for 30 days due to the pack laws of separation, that doesn’t keep the pack from coming to them when their help is needed. Now they are trying to get on with their lives in as normal a way as possible for these two. SPOILERS IF YOU HAVEN’T READ BOOK SEVEN!!īook seven left readers shocked when Kate and Curran abdicated their thrones as pack Alphas and Kate was forced to magically claim Atlanta in order to save them all from her father.

Curran by Gordon Andrews