Review: Magic Bleeds

Magic Bleeds by Ilona Andrews
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This is a pivotal book in that it is the book where Curran and Kate finally admit what they feel about each other. And thank goodness it works. In most media, once two such volatile characters get together, most of the personal tension is lost, and the series goes downhill, but not this series.

Kate had to let Curran in on some personal secrets, and Curran had to make some concessions himself. It is a perfect melding of two such uber Alpha characters. Although I'm sure that Kate would not think of herself as such!

This book is perfect from its opening prologue in which we find Kate having a very personal crisis (yes Curran's people can be butt-heads) to the very emotional yet supremely satisfying ending that can also be thought of as a personal crisis for both Kate and Curran. It is sort of unusual for Ms. Andrews to open AND close her book with personal scenes like this.

Throughout the book, we see that no matter what happens to her, Kate has not lost her dry and fatalistic sense of humor, and Ms. Andrews doesn't fail at making me laugh during the horror that is Kate's life.

A totally satisfying and sexy read.

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SYNOPSIS: "Kate Daniels works for the Order of the Knights of Merciful Aid, officially as a liaison with the mercenary guild. Unofficially, she cleans up the paranormal problems no one else wants to handle—especially if they involve Atlanta’s shapeshifting community.

When she’s called in to investigate a fight at the Steel Horse, a bar midway between the territories of the shapeshifters and the necromancers, Kate quickly discovers there’s a new player in town. One who’s been around for thousands of years—and rode to war at the side of Kate’s father.

This foe may be too much even for Kate and Curran, the Lord of the Beasts, to handle. Because this time, Kate will be taking on family…