Magic Bites (Dramatized Adaptation): Kate Daniels, Book 1

If You are a lover of magic sort of fiction you will like this book. Was packaged well.

The first book in the Kate Daniels series is a complete page turner. The book starts off with a lot of action.I'm a huge fan of kick- ass female heroines and this book gave a heroine who is nothing short of badass. The character is strong, yet having weakness, she is not perfect by any means, and that's what makes it so refreshing. I love the world the story is set in, it's unique in a particular aspect and I loved how the aspects of the world seamlessly blends in with the story. There is a bunch of diverse characters who contribute to the story in their own ways. The romance in this book is almost none and the potential love interest is only hinted at but I loved the slow burn element of the story too.For a first book in the series, the book doesn't reveal a lot, but that has managed to pique my interest. I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the books in the series. A must read for anyone who is a fan of urban fantasy/paranormal romances.

Me gustan mucho los libros de Ilona Andrews porque en ellos puedes encontrar de todo (aventura, amor, peleas, drama) y este libro es una buena forma de iniciar el mundo de Kate Daniels y Curran.

Very enjoyable and full of action. No dull moment in this book. If you are like me who loves kick-ass female leads, then this book is for you. World building is superb and the pacing of the story is just right for me. Writing style is my cup of tea too.

L’Urban Fantasy è ormai un genere consolidato, ci sono trappole in cui è facile cascare, e tanti autori e autrici preferiscono soluzioni ‘di cassetta’ quando partono con una serie.Non è QUESTO, il caso.Kate Daniels, mercenaria, è una mercenaria solitaria, con un passato tutto da scoprire, una tosta e senza tanti grilli per la testa. Non è alla disperata ricerca dell’amore di turno, e ogni altro personaggio che incontra esiste in funzione del suo lavoro. La sua spada si chiama ‘Slayer’, l’omicida, ed è tutto un programma!Questa NON E’ una storiella da ‘twilight’, non è un rosa. E’ pura adrenalina, momenti divertenti, e un mondo pericoloso e pieno di misteri.Benvenuti…a vostro rischio!

This is my third time rereading this series and it still holds up as one of my favourite. Insanely smart and witty, with a great story line and interesting characters.

Synopsis [by Goodreads.com]:When the magic is up, rogue mages cast their spells and monsters appear, while guns refuse to fire and cars fail to start. But then technology returns, and the magic recedes as unpredictably as it arose, leaving all kinds of paranormal problems in its wake.Kate Daniels is a down-on-her-luck mercenary who makes her living cleaning up these 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.The Masters of the Dead, necromancers who can control vampires, and the Pack, a paramilitary clan of shapechangers, blame each other for a series of bizarre killings—and the death of Kate's guardian may be part of the same mystery. Pressured by both sides to find the killer, Kate realizes she's way out of her league—but she wouldn't have it any other way…ReviewI'm just rereading the series and I can only confirm what I already thought a few years ago: this is the best UF series I know, with the best world-builing, the coolest heroine and just the right amount of humor to prevent the book [and the series as a whole] from becoming too dark.Because the premises are rather dark: in a not too far away future, the world shifts between magic and tech. After centuries of the world being subject to only the tech side of everything [= times as we know it: no magic, everything can be described in scientific terms and there is only our known plane of existence], one day magic came back with a vengeance and destroyed [electronic] life as we know it. Now magic and tech alternate with all consequences - and the heroine Kate Daniels lives as a mercenary who gets hired, when the magic shift leaves dangerous beasts and creatures in it's wake.This world-building is a huge part of the brilliance of this series: it's totally well thought-out and described, it's consistent and there is never the easy way out[when there is a tech-shift, there are no wards to prevent the beasts from coming inside and magical beings are weaker, whether it would help Kate or not if it were revesed now, she has to work with what there is]. The post-magic-shift world is an important factor in the story, as if post-shift Atlanta were another character.The characters, their backstories and their banter and dialogue are just great. I do love other UF heroines as well - Mercy Thompson, October Daye or Jessica McClain being only a few of the really great ones - but there is none like Kate Daniels. She is a loner and from time to time her loneliness gets so palpable, I felt it myself. Yet she does not once lament her life or her chosen fate. She acknowledges that her life it is pretty bad at times and does not gloss over the fact that she probably does not have a long life. That means, she isn't ignorant, yet goes on, because: what else is there to do?The bits and pieces we get about who and what Kate is, are perfectly interspersed in the story: instead of info-dump, we get the information whenever it fits into the action or dialogue. Oh and action there is. Kate is a kick-a**-heroine, who fights a great deal, both phyiscally and magically and I love that about her. A lot of "people" underestimate her at the beginning and get their eyes opened. And it's hilarious at times to read Kate's comments on that and the overall occurrances as well. Her 1st person POV made me crack up many times.The other characters do not play as intense a role here as they do in the following books, but they are real people, whom I liked to read about.When world- and character-building are as fantastic as they are done here, it should be hard to focus just as much at the story, but this is not the case here: the crime Kate tries to solve, the death of her Guardian [and last family-like-person in her life], is interesting, kept me on my toes and is wrapped up nicely at the end. There is an overall story arc indicated, but I was happy that the story in this book is properly finished.And even re-reading it for the third time and knowing what is going to happen, I could not lay the book down. Yes, the book and the series are that good.