{"id":4996,"date":"2014-12-14T20:34:32","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T01:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=4996"},"modified":"2021-05-30T10:12:46","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T14:12:46","slug":"on-the-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/4996","title":{"rendered":"On the Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the Edge<\/a><\/em> (2009) Ilona Andrews<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Untitled-1\"<\/a>Rose Drayton lives in the Edge, the border between the Broken (mundane world) and the Weird (magical world). She’s raising her brothers, George and Jack, with the occasional help of her grandmother. She’s proud, despite her poverty, and has one thing that sets her apart from the other Edgers: she can Flash white and she has very very good control of her flash.<\/p>\n

For awhile, this made her the target of slavers and other undesirables, but eventually people learned to leave her alone, and now her life is the day-to-day grind of an undocumented worker struggling to feed and clothe her two young brothers.<\/p>\n

So when a Weird Blueblood arrives on her doorstep (so to speak) she is ready to defend herself and her brothers with everything she has.<\/p>\n

But it turns out the blueblood, Declan, might be more than he seems on the surface.<\/p>\n

This is a boinking book. Aside from the fact I could totally do without the boinking, I really like this series. As always, Ilona Andrews’ heroines stand up for themselves and aren’t afraid to fight. Which is pretty much my book catnip.<\/p>\n

But what I also like is that the other characters–especially her brothers, George and Jack, are complete as well. And William (Declan’s best friend) is also intriguing (and unique). So the book is about far more than the romance between Rose and Declan.<\/p>\n

I find this cover perplexing. Rose is shown as strong–and pretty much as she is in the book. Declan, on the other hand, is a shirtless (we can assume) floating head. That’s just…. weird. But since we get a strong female, I’ll take it.
\nRating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published by Ace<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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