5/24/2023 0 Comments Magic shifts by ilona andrewsA loyal friend, hard-working, with a nice house. His personality was described several times in exactly the same way, with the use of the same adjectives, as if there weren’t enough things about Eduardo that could even be invented. Eduardo is a tricky choice, however, even for the authors, as evidenced by the limited amount of information they’re able to provide about him. Obviously, Kate and Curran decide to start looking for him, and what they find forms a rather scary picture. One of the side characters, the werebufallo (yup!) Eduardo, whom we’ve met in Magic Breaks, goes missing. Magic Shifts is even more picturesque than the previous books and would be a great film material – but the magic has really shifted. All the right elements are there – Ilona Andrews still knows how to write, how to build a story, how to create powerful, gripping scenes. It must have been very demanding, especially taking under consideration their huge fan base, and I’m afraid they ultimately didn’t succeed. I imagine that this new book was a difficult one for the authors: they had to start again, almost from scratch, with an old material, and after seven books it’s really hard to squeeze it even for a few drops of something unique. Seven previous ones formed a complete story arc and I wrote about them here. Magic Shifts is an eight installment in Kate Daniels’ world. Let’s jump to urban fantasy genre for a moment. So how about a lighter, or shadier, type of fantasy than the big books I have talked about lately? □ I will come back to Robin Hobb, I promise, just not today.
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