{"id":5032,"date":"2015-01-06T19:33:43","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T00:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=5032"},"modified":"2018-04-10T21:18:27","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T01:18:27","slug":"gunmetal-magic-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/5032","title":{"rendered":"Gunmetal Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0072NWKP6\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B0072NWKP6&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=randomreading-20&#038;linkId=VYD35XVIYCF53TPR\">Gunmetal Magic<\/a><\/em> (2012) by <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/andrewsi.php\">Ilona Andrews<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0072NWKP6\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B0072NWKP6&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=randomreading-20&amp;linkId=VYD35XVIYCF53TPR\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/gunmetal-magic.jpg?resize=186%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"gunmetal-magic\" width=\"186\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5033\" \/><\/a>Started the audio version and just couldn&#8217;t get into it, so switched over the the ebook version.<\/p>\n<p>I read it a little slower this time, and overall it was a good book, however, this time around I found myself a little disappointed in the ending. It seemed just too much of a Big Hero ending, and I didn&#8217;t quite see the need for things happening the way they did.<\/p>\n<p>That said, I still love Andrea.<\/p>\n<p>Published by Ace <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gunmetal Magic (2012) by Ilona Andrews Started the audio version and just couldn&#8217;t get into it, so switched over the the ebook version. I read it a little slower this time, and overall it was a good book, however, this time around I found myself a little disappointed in the ending. It seemed just too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,26,16],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-5032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-romance","category-supernatural","tag-ilona-andrews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-1ja","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5029,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/5029","url_meta":{"origin":5032,"position":0},"title":"Gunmetal Magic, Audio Book","author":"Michelle","date":"January 5, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Gunmetal Magic Audible edition (2012) by Ilona Andrews and narrated by Ren\u00e9e Raudman It's quite possible that we have become spoiled by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, who narrates Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London series, but neither of us could really get into the audio version of Gunmetal Magic. The narrator wasn't horrible\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Audio Book&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Audio Book","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/audio-book"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3064,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/3064","url_meta":{"origin":5032,"position":1},"title":"Gunmetal Magic","author":"Michelle","date":"August 12, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Gunmetal Magic (2012) Ilona Andrews This book is set in Kate's world, and Kate (of course) make appearances, but this is the story of Andrea and Raphael. Andrea has been outed as a shapeshifter and forced out the Order, which has been her entire life. 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