{"id":2686,"date":"2011-12-06T18:25:39","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T23:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=2686"},"modified":"2021-06-03T17:44:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T21:44:18","slug":"fates-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/2686","title":{"rendered":"Fate’s Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fate’s Edge<\/a><\/em> (2011) Ilona Andrews<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I have to say I’m glad I didn’t notice the floating man head until after I finished the book, because that floating man head totally doesn’t look like how I pictured Keldar.<\/p>\n

Keldar is a rogue. That floating head? Just… doesn’t look smart enough to pull off the part.<\/p>\n

But aside from that….<\/p>\n

Audrey Callahan was born and raised a grifter, but she’s managed to escape from her family and go straight.<\/p>\n

Kaldar Mar, the cousin of Cerise from Bayou Moon, is working for the Mirror, in the hopes of taking down The Hand–the group that destroyed much of his family.<\/p>\n

And from previous books, Jack and George are the brothers of Rose, and are having a hard time dealing with the fact that as Edgers they will never be accepted by the weird, regardless of the nobility of their brother-in-law and ward. And Gaston is another of Cerise’s cousins, now training with Kaldar to become a mirror agent.<\/p>\n

For a romance (and this is a romance and boinking book) it’s unusual to make two main characters teenage boys who happened to be main characters in a previous book, but it worked very well for this book. In On the Edge<\/em> we spent a lot of time with George and Jack, and it was good to spend time with them again, and see how they’ve grown and come to deal with their sister’s happily ever after.<\/p>\n

As a series, these books are similar to Marjorie Liu<\/a>‘s Dirk & Steele series, where you have a group of character’s whose stories are related yet can be read separate from one another. Which I like very much.<\/p>\n

To be more specific, I really enjoyed Fate’s Edge<\/em>. Audrey is a fabulous heroine, skilled and self-reliant and although she has a somewhat ugly history, it hasn’t broken her. And of course I have a soft spot for rogues, and Kaldar most definitely belongs to that class.<\/p>\n

All in all I am thoroughly enjoying this series, and highly recommend it. <\/p>\n

Despite the boinking.
\nRating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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