This series comes highly recommended! As per fellow reader, Rose:
“… I might suggest the Kate Daniels series by Ilona Andrews. It’s artful mixing of magic and technology and realistic characterizations makes all the books a wonderful read. I stayed up four days straight finishing them.”
and Tanya says:
“Ilona Andrews Kate Daniels series is another very well written true urban fantasy. There’s romantic tension, but no action until later books.”
As per the author’s website:
The world has suffered a magic apocalypse. We pushed the technological progress too far, and now magic returned with a vengeance. It comes in waves, without warning, and vanishes as suddenly as it appears. When magic is up, planes drop out of the sky, cars stall, electricity dies. When magic is down, guns work and spells fail.
It’s a volatile, screwed-up world. Magic feeds on technology, gnawing down on skyscrappers until most of them topple and fall, leaving only skeletal husks behind. Monsters prowl the ruined streets, werebears and werehyenas stalk their prey; and the Masters of the Dead, necromancers driven by their thirst of knowledge and wealth, pilot blood-crazed vampires with their minds.
In this world lives Kate Daniels. Kate likes her sword a little too much and has a hard time controlling her mouth. The magic in her blood makes her a target, and she spent most of her life hiding in plain sight. But sometimes even trained killers make friends and fall in love, and when the universe tries to kick them in the face, they kick back.
- Magic Bites (Kate Daniels, Book 1)
- Magic Burns (Kate Daniels, Book 2)
- Magic Strikes (Kate Daniels, Book 3)
- Magic Mourns (as found in the Must Love Hellhounds (Berkley Us) anthology) – it can also be purchased separately as an ebook here: Magic Mourns: A Companion Novella to Magic Strikes
- Magic Bleeds (Kate Daniels, Book 4)
- Magic Dreams as found in the Hexed Anthology
- Magic Slays (Kate Daniels)
- Gunmetal Magic: A Novel in the World of Kate Daniels (Andrea’s book) – expected release date July 31st 2012
- Kate #6 (Title TBA) – expected release date Feb 2013
- Kate #7 (Title and release date TBA)
Related posts:
- Ilona Andrews – The Edge Series Reading Order
- Lauren Kate – Fallen Series Reading Order
- Vivi Andrews – Serengeti Shifters Series Reading Order
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