A Kate
Daniels Novel, Book 9
Ace
Publishing
September 20th,2016
978-0-425-27069-1
Urban
Fantasy, Action-Adventure, Romance
Hardcover
Reviewed by
Dawn (love2read28@gmail.com)
Obtained by
Library
For Kate
Daniels, this should have been a time of joy, of planning her long overdue
wedding to the former beast lord, Curran but instead she has to deal with some
major issues. Like her father, Roland, kidnapping the demigod Saiman and slowly
draining im dry, like several oracles telling Kate that if she marries the love
of her life, Atlanta
will burn. But when Kate is left with no options, she finds the one thing, the
one person she can ask for help…the one she killed. The odds are long but for
Kate Daniels, that is when the rules are meant to be broken. War is coming…will
Kate be able to survive or will Atlanta
fall to her father?
MAGIC
BINDS is the next to
last book in this wonderful series that just keeps getting better and better
with each book by the author Ilona Andrews. With this story we finally see Kate
determined to end her father’s grab for power even as she struggles with the
power she herself wields. I got to give this author props for creating a cast
of characters that just leap off the pages. From the first book, Magic Bites,
when we met Kate and the rest of the wonderful cast of characters, we see a
growth for everyone with each book, especially no more than Kate as she finds
out just who, exactly, she is, what she is capable of and what she will do to
protect what she feels is hers. This is an author who lets the main characters,
Kate and Curran, as well as many of the secondary characters grow with each
book even as their backs are against the wall and the odds are against them.
What holds my imagination was the battle Kate does with herself as she fights
to set up rules as she tries to reign in her power after she claimed the city
and land of Atlanta.
That internal struggle is what is half of MAGIC BINDS story and delivers
the most bang, in my opinion, within the story. That struggle as Kate tries to
not turn into her father Roland and her desire to not go down that path is what
makes that emotional aspect of the story so powerful. Her struggle inside and
out is the core of the story in MAGIC BINDS and the authors do a wonderful job
in capturing that struggle so well within the pages of this latest addition to
the series.
As we race
to the climatic end of the series, we find Kate, Curran and all their allies
and friends racing alongside them as they face down Roland, his army and his
powerful magic. With each page the reader is drawn into the story of MAGIC
BINDS, as twists and turns abound when you least expect it and you find out
that a few secondary characters are really something so much more than they
appear, the twists will leave you breathless even as you flip the pages to see
what happens next. With each page, the author does a marvelous job in capturing
soft moments then the really hard ones next. We get to see Kate and Curran
along with Julie and the rest of their family try to plan a wedding amid the
threat of war; of trying to figure out how to survive to live another day and
watch as the happiness they are fighting for lives to see the light of a new
day. Ilona Andrews delivers a powerful story about change, about family, of
hope, love, fear and more within the pages of MAGIC BINDS and wraps it
all up with a major red ribbon for their readers to pull open. MAGIC BINDS
is more than a story about a mercenary who fell in love, wants to live happily
ever after and all that. It’s about doing what is right even if you know that
the path is one that changes with every choice you make. It about trusting your
partner, your love, the one who knows you better than anyone else and shows you
that love is the best reason to move forward even if they get mad at you and
want to scream at you. Love is what binds this story so well with the series
because at its core, it’s Kate’s love for Curran, for Julie, for Atlanta and all its residents that cause her to make the
choices she does within the pages of this latest book.
I applaud the author for creating such a wonderful series, with a diverse set of characters that you cannot help but fall in love with, cry over and mourn even as you smile in happiness as some get their own fairytale endings. As we lead up to the final battle, I look forward to seeing where the author goes in that final book and will cheer Kate, Curran and the rest on as the war that has been lead up to in past books finally, agonizingly, comes to the pages and the readers will be waiting, with a bated breath to see what happens next as will I.
I applaud the author for creating such a wonderful series, with a diverse set of characters that you cannot help but fall in love with, cry over and mourn even as you smile in happiness as some get their own fairytale endings. As we lead up to the final battle, I look forward to seeing where the author goes in that final book and will cheer Kate, Curran and the rest on as the war that has been lead up to in past books finally, agonizingly, comes to the pages and the readers will be waiting, with a bated breath to see what happens next as will I.
This is an
objective review and not an endorsement
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