{"id":8941,"date":"2017-03-19T15:41:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T19:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=8941"},"modified":"2021-12-16T09:07:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T14:07:43","slug":"magic-slays-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/8941","title":{"rendered":"Magic Slays"},"content":{"rendered":"

Magic Slays<\/a><\/em> (2011) Ilona Andrews<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Book five. Kate is no longer a member of the order, but is now running her own investigative agency. Not that she has any cases, but it’s her agency.<\/p>\n

After having disappeared for two months, Andrea returns–a very different woman now that she has been kicked out of the order and lost everything that held her together.<\/p>\n

\u201cShane can\u2019t hold your property.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI know that. I\u2019m still pissed off. It\u2019s your duty as my best friend to be outraged with me.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m outraged!\u201d I snarled. \u201cThat bastard!\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThank you,\u201d Andrea said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On top of that, something is eating wards and causing navigators to lose control of their vampires.<\/p>\n

I’d actually forgotten about the scene where Curran gets his revenge upon Saiman. I’m glad that Kate took steps, because I quite like Saiman, and I’d not like it if he disappeared.<\/p>\n

I also like Ghastek, but I recognize that I’m in the minority there. Like Saiman, Ghastek is what he seems–a man who wants power and is going to use every ounce of his talent to achive that.<\/p>\n

He’s also quite savvy.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you think you would have been burned at the stake in the sixteenth century?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cNo.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cBecause you\u2019re not a woman?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cBeing a woman made little difference. Most witches burned in Iceland and Finland were men, for example. No, I wouldn\u2019t have been burned, because I\u2019m not poor.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also: We meet Ascanio, Julie is infected with Lyc-V, and Evdokia the Russian witch tells Kate many things about her past.<\/p>\n

Evdokia raised the teakettle and refilled my cup. \u201cSugar?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cNo, thank you.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cYou should have some. I\u2019m about to speak ill of the dead. Sugar helps with the bitter.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And now onto book six. At least this is the last of the really awfully terrible covers.
\nRating: 7.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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After having disappeared for two months, Andrea returns–a very different woman now that she has been kicked out of the order […]<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[194,203,2,48,41,16],"tags":[87,173,313],"class_list":["post-8941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-5-10","category-bad","category-fantasy","category-female","category-reread","category-supernatural","tag-ilona-andrews","tag-kate-daniels","tag-vampires"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-2kd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4427,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/4427","url_meta":{"origin":8941,"position":0},"title":"Magic Slays","author":"Michelle","date":"February 21, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Magic Slays (2011) Ilona Andrews And here we are at book five. 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