Kate likes her sword a little too much and has a hard time controlling her mouth. Here skyscrapers topple under onslaught of magic werebears and werehyenas prowl through the ruined streets and the Masters of the Dead, necromancers driven by their thirst of knowledge and wealth, pilot blood-crazed vampires with their minds. The next, technology takes over and the defensive spells no longer protect your house from monsters. I’ve got the sequel penciled in for December, and hopefully I can finish out the series (and it’s sprawling side-books and novellas) in 2022.Atlanta would be a nice place to live, if it weren’t for magic… One moment magic dominates, and cars stall and guns fail. Hopefully that stops as the series goes on. As mentioned above, I’m not a huge fan of alpha characters, and definitely not ones who feel the need to assert their power with mindgames like he does here.
At times, I also liked the antagonistic relationship developing between Kate and Curran. I liked the hints of character development for Kate, and even if the way they went about explaining their worldbuilding was a bit rushed and confusing, I think I liked what I saw of it. This book hints at a lot of promise in future books. I defy anyone on this website who has fantasy reading friends not to know that.) (I know they are going to end up together. This brings her into contact with the Pack, a group of shapeshifting humans ruled over by the Pack Lord Curran. When her former guardian is murdered, she takes it upon herself to solve the crime and punish those responsible. Basically she’s a mercenary, and a bit of a loner.
Our main character is a young woman of uncertain origin (hiding great power, of course) whose job it is to clean up magical situations for hire. And it’s finally time! It takes place in a future world (not sure how far) where technology is being edged out (literally eaten? I think?) by magic. So this is the first book in the much beloved Kate Daniels urban fantasy series, which certain friends of mine have been on at me for years to read. I find it very irritating and I hope he knocks it off. Mostly, I’m fed up with the alpha dick measuring that Curran and his pack have going on.
I would have continued on anyway, but I’m glad for the heads up everyone has given me that this series improves. I liked this, but it was the least well put together of the books I’ve read from these authors yet.
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