Kate Daniels is a down-on-her-luck mercenary who makes her living cleaning up magical problems. But when Kate’s guardian is murdered, her quest for justice draws her into a power struggle between two strong factions within Atlanta’s magic circles. Pressured by both sides to find the killer, Kate realizes she’s way out of her league—but she wouldn’t want it any other way…
Kate Daniels
Kate was a great characters. She is everything you can expect from an urban fantasy heroine. She is strong, kick-ass and witty. And when I say witty I mean sarcastic, occasionally rude and always hilarious. I mean, she greeted the Beast Lord with "Here, kitty, kitty...". A thing I love about Kate is that she admits when she makes mistakes. I have met tons of heroes and heroines who just blame someone else for their problems, but not Kate. That's one of the reasons she usually works alone. She knows she will make mistakes and she doesn't want other people involved. Next comes her sword "Slayer"! I would love to have a sword like that. I mean, I would look totally badass. And I'll probably gonna end up chopping my own head off plus a few fingers. And last Kate wasn't self-obsessed and selfish. She didn't consider herself beautiful, but she admitted she was stunning. Then there are those hillarious moments when she smiles and that guy just looks at her and she is thinking: "Ok, he didn't kiss my shoes and promise me the world. I'm getting rusty." I fell off the chair laughing, because I can totally imagine this guy falling on his knees and kissing her shoes.The world of Kate Daniels
The world this seres is set in is quite special too! It's like the normal world, but there is magic. Real dangerous kick-ass magic. And once or twice a day there is this magic wave when all technology just stops working and people have to use horses to move around, for example. But on the other hand after the magic wave, people can't use any magic no matter how much talent they have. And then there are shape-shifters, upirs, vampires and zombies, I believe. Shape-shifters are sort of like werewolfs, but much coller. They don't morf only into wolfs. Each of them can turn into a different animal. Like Curran can turn into a lion. Vampires are a complete mystery to me in this book. I got it that people use then as transport and that each vampie has a psychik link with his rider or something like that. And I know even less about zombies. I'm not sure they even exist in Kate's world. I just remember someone mentioning them. Maybe it was just a joke.Love interests
Before you try to run away looking at this sub-heading, listen to me. There isn't a lot of romance in this book. We are talking about two kisses. That's all. So there is Crest at first. I never really liked him. As Derek said he is too soft for Kate. I know Kate is strong and can protect herself, but that doesn't mean that she has to go out with guys that can't even throw a punch. I though he was the bad guy in this book and when Kate thought he was I was like: "I knew it! I knew it! HA!" But as it turned out Crest is not even interesting in a bad way. He isn't cool enough to be the villian. THat's all for plain old boring Dr. Crest.Now lets go to the good stuff. I mean the hot and dangerous Curran. You can't not love him. He isn't the best character in the beginning, but believe me he is a hell of a great one by the middle of the book. I really don't have that much to say about Curran. He is...well, yeah....he is...Curran. That's all. I love him! Do you know where I can buy one? Curran, I mean!
Oh and that moment when he kissed Kate. I will sound like a total fangirl, but it was sooooooo HAWT! Even Kate thought so. I think I was just going to laugh like a psycho when I read it. I was in public so I tried to contain myself. And let's not forget the moment when they wre fighting those vampires and Curran walked through fire TWICE to save her.
The Big Bad Wolf (or Upir! Whatever you like to call it!!)
So this book was all about the murder of Kate's guardian. It's the spark that started it all. And we all want to know who killed him. This book got me foolled. I never guessed that Bono was Roland or however you like to call him. I just though it was Crest. Because, as I said earlier, he is so boring. So when it turned out it's not Crest I was just thinking it's some minor character we have already met, because no author introduces a character in the end of a book. Well, it does happen, but that's called a cliffhanger. Whatever! Back on Bono. So the first time I found out he was the upir I just...I think I screamed a little bit. And what was with him going to Kate half naked. Did he expect to "breed" with her then and there? Probably! Can I be the first one to say: "Ewww!" Yeah, I'm happy he died!Derek, other characters and The Ending
So, Derek! I liked him as a character. The first time Kate meets him I just wanted her to cut his head off. He behaved like such a teenager. I'm happy he changed and protected her later. I know it was mostly because of the blood oath, but he wanted t help even after Curran released him from it. So I thinkof him as a good guy. Now this Nick guy. I really don't know what to think of him. He wasn't a main character at all and he wasn't that important, but I'll say he is in the miidle. Like 5/10 on the coolness scale. Now moving on to the end. I loved the end of this book. Curran and Derek were fixing her roof! Come on! That scene just deserves a big grin! And the last words Kate says. This guy on the phone is like: When can you start working? She: Tomorrow! She almost died but she want to go back to business as soon as possible!I loved this book! I just don't know what to say about it. I know I missed some thing I wanted to talk about in this review, but I'm leaving it like that for now! Go read this book and even if yu don't like it as much as I did, go read the next one and the next one. Because I bet this series gets even better!
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