Magic Bites - Ilorna Andrews

Title: Magic Bites
Author: Ilorna Andrews
Genre: Paranormal
Rating: 2.5/5
# pages: 260
Date read: January, 2016

One moment magic dominates, and cars stall and guns fail. The next, technology takes over and the defensive spells no longer protect your house from monsters. Here skyscrapers topple under onslaught of magic; werebears and werehyenas prowl through the ruined streets; and the Masters of the Dead, necromancers driven by their thirst of knowledge and wealth, pilot blood-crazed vampires with their minds.

In this world lives Kate Daniels. Kate likes her sword a little too much and has a hard time controlling her mouth. The magic in her blood makes her a target, and she spent most of her life hiding in plain sight.

But when Kate's guardian is murdered, she must choose to do nothing and remain safe or to pursue his preternatural killer. Hiding is easy, but the right choice is rarely easy...


I really wanted to love this book as I'd heard so much good about the author, and a couple of years ago, it would have been right up my aisle. Alas, I just never warmed up to the characters, and therefore simply didn't care what happened to them - which made the action scenes somewhat less interesting. It might just be that I've 'gone off' paranormal novels... or at least this type of gritty/urban paranormality. Fortunately the book was well written, so I finished it anyway without considering it too much of a chore, but there were some parts I mostly skimmed.