Hi everyone, Mod R here.
Magic Tides, Wilmington Years Book 1 will be released next Tuesday, January 17.
I know most of you have seen the news and launched straight into a reread of the series, but for everyone who hasn’t managed it, today I bring you a small recap of Everything So Far. (And yes, I do have to pinch myself that I get to write about my favourite books for a living! #blessed)
Once upon a time, in the faraway kingdom of Shinar, there lived a Prince. He was handsome, brilliant and full of power, a true scion of his glorious family, who brought the kingdom prosperity and enlightenment. Magic ruled the world and oh, did the Prince have magic.
In the tradition of all the best ancient tragedies, the Prince -who would be written into the holy books of men as Nimrod- also had hubris. He pushed both his magic and armies too far to prove to the world his way was best. The balance of magic and tech was thrown off and Nimrod’s time was over.
The era of technology saw him and his Warlord sister Erra retreat into caves, where they slumbered for millennia, kept alive by the trickle of magic that always survives in the world.
And then the pendulum started to swing. Magic came back into the world in our modern age and Nimrod woke up and began to rebuild his power and his towers, waiting for a time to resurrect his kingdom. He called himself Roland, for lo, he was still an arrogant bag of dicks.
He gathered people around him, including his new Warlord Voron and a boy of astonishing magical power he discovered in France and named Hugh d’Ambray. And he kept his vow to not have any more children, because they had a habit of rising against him.
But vows last until love appears, and for the love of the witch Kalina, Roland forsook his plans and allowed a daughter to be born. Whilst still in her mother’s womb, Roland inscribed on her skin a poem to shame the newly awakened gods.
And then the terrible king changed his mind. Kalina sacrificed herself for the baby’s safety, delaying Roland’s pursuit enough for Voron to flee with her daughter. The former Warlord raised Kate as an assassin, with one mission: kill her true father.
It’s now 2040. Magic waves come and go, never lasting more than 24 hours, rendering most technology useless and slowly eating at the ruins of the modern world. Every 7 years, a Flare happens, a wild period of intense magic that last 2-3 days, powerful enough for the old gods and the new to walk the Earth.
Kate is a lowly merc who lives a solitary life, hiding her true identity and magic, and biding her time.
A questionable Client (Small Magics)
Down-on-her-luck merc Kate Daniels gets a last-minute bodyguard gig. Sometimes, a girl just needs a new pair of boots! The job involves guarding polymorph Saiman against the Russian volhvs. At the end of a night full of endars, badzulas and a stolen magical acorn, the World Oak grows on the rooftop and the All Knowing Cat descends straight out of Ruslan and Ludmila, ready for Kate to ask it a question.
Magic Bites: book 1
A vampire piloted by the necromancer Ghastek brings Kate news that her guardian, Knight Diviner Greg Feldman, was killed. The Order allows Kate to look into his murder in their name. What is a good girl like Kate doing calling kitties in a bad place like Unicorn Alley? Meeting the Beast Lord of the Atlanta shifter Pack, of course! During an investigation that involves some of the most powerful factions in post-Shift Atlanta and her newly-acquired teenage werewolf sidekick, Kate discovers the killer is a horrifying creature called an Upir. The final battle sees Kate and her allies defeat him, his monstruous children, and an undead dragon.
Poor Kate, does the epilogue find the shifter you shared food with in your personal space, fixing your house? I’m sure that means nothing… moving right along.
Magic Burns: book 2
Magic and tech waves are building up erratically, indicating a Flare is coming, and it’s affecting everyone. A neophyte coven of witches divinely screws up and summons Morfran instead of the goddess Morrigan. He wants to use the Flare to manifest in the world, but needs an artefact of great power in order to do it. Morrigan sends her servant Bran into the world to find it, and he causes no end of trouble for Kate and the Atlanta shifters. A street kid named Red gives the artefact to Julie, his 13-year-old orphan girlfriend, painting a Fomorian target on her back. Julie ends up in Kate’s care and becomes her ward. Curran has Fabio hair and gives Kate soup, Team Metal Rose is born, Kate’s friend Andrea turns out to be a shifter with a difference and the Shepherd of undead sirens will NOT shut up. Flares really do suck. Kate and the Pack defeat Morfran, but Bran is killed.
Magic Strikes: book 3
Derek, the aforementioned teenage werewolf sidekick, is trying to save the girl he fancies from a life of alleged captivity in one of the fighter teams involved in the Midnight Games. He ends up horribly wounded. Kate, always the Care Bear, gets involved and forms a team of her own to join the Games (a fighting tournament for supernaturals) and gain revenge and intel. She tries to do it behind Curran’s back, but the Beast Lord has other plans (and hot tubs to soak in). They discover the enemy team are rakshasas who are after the prize of the Midnight Games, the Wolf Diamond, which can stop shifters from being able to shift. Hugh d’Ambray, Roland’s Warlord and Voron’s killer, recognises Kate’s true identity after she breaks Roland’s blood sword in one of the fights. The rakshasas take her to their flying palace and Curran rescues her.
Magic Bleeds: book 4
Kate stumbles upon a rapidly spreading magical plague and keeps it contained until Biohazard arrives on the scene (Luther for president!). It’s the opening salvo of Erra the City Eater, the Plague Bringer, master of the 7 undead mages, aka Kate’s aunt. Family! Can’t live with them, can’t let them terrorize your city with magic plagues, am I right?
Kate defeats Erra but not before aunty affects Curran, who slips into a coma for 11 days. A still-battered Kate must endure challenges from the Pack—as Curran’s Consort— and manages to defeat them all. Curran is super pleased when he wakes up (not) and tears the Pack a host of new ones.
Magic Slays: book 5
Cutting Edge Investigations, Kate and Andrea’s new business, is involved in finding Adam Kamen, a scientist who built a device that can “eat” magic. A shadow organization called the Lighthouse Keepers are also after the device, because they want to get rid of all magic in the world. They have infiltrated all the important factions with their agents.
Julie begins to go loup after a shifter attack. Kate must do the unimaginable to save her life, and binds her with a blood ritual under the guidance of Roland’s voice. Curran sets a hard boundary around this being a one-time deal, as the bond is one that robs people of consent.
The Lighthouse Keepers’ new magic-destroying device in Atlanta airport gets deactivated after a huge battle, which Kate & co win. The world survives to tell another postapocalyptic tale.
Magic Rises: book 6
Julie is not the only child whose life was put in danger by Lyc-V during puberty. The shifters have huge child mortality rates and the only thing that can help is Panacea, a magical concoction of very secret recipe. Curran is offered a large amount of panacea to sail over the ocean to Georgia (the country, not the state), ancient Colchis. Desandra, the daughter of a Carpathian shifter Alpha, is pregnant with twins who have different fathers. Whichever heir is born first will inherit a strategically important mountain pass, which both the fathers’ packs want. They need Curran to keep the peace until the birth.
It’s in fact a trap set by Hugh d’Ambray, who is trying to separate Kate and Curran. They survive murder attempts, a spoiled shifter princess, Warlords and secret ancient beasts. Colchis is not an ancient land for naught, and when enough is enough, Astamur the Shephard opens a volcano underneath Hugh’s castle. Our Atlanta heroes escape, with one major loss to their roster (RIP Aunt B, she was a real one). They sail back home with plum-enthusiast Desandra, her children, and Christopher -one of Hugh’s prisoners- who reveals he knows the recipe for panacea.
Magic Breaks: book 7
While Curran’s away, a certain Warlord who can’t let things the fluff go comes to Atlanta to make trouble and kill a lot of people, trying to get Kate. He manages to teleport Kate and Ghastek to Mishmar, which is a labyrinthic Kafkian nightmare prison built by Roland to enclose his mother’s bones. Curran rescues her and Ghastek, and Kate meets her grandma, who gives her one of her bones (as one does) to have as a new sword, called Sarrat.
Kate goes to save her friends from Roland. One thing leads to another and she claims Atlanta in an ancient bond with the land’s own magic that her family have the power to forge (oops). Kate and Curran step down as Pack leaders as part of a new compromise with Roland.
Magic Shifts: Book 8
Curran’s adoptive sister George asks K&C for help when her fiancé, Eduardo, goes missing. Kate and Curran find a kindjal dagger in his trash and off they go on his trail. His disappearance is linked with the djinn who is causing trouble at the Guild of Mercenaries.
Kate learns (too late) that she cannot use her powers against djinn, as she herself draws her magic from an Ifrit ancestor. She barely recovers from her stroke due to her claim on the land and Doolittle’s ministrations (Honey Badgers *do* care!).
With the help of a ghoul, and after a very heavy fight with yet another of the djinn’s greedy victims, they retrieve the cursed earring. Kate and Curran take turns carrying it to a box that can contain it, which only Eduardo can close.
Kate and Curran set a date!
Magic Binds: book 9
Kate and Curran are trying to get ready for their wedding- they have the right volhv and everything! But tensions are growing with Roland, who is taunting his daughter by kidnapping Saiman and activating sleeper cells in the ranks of the Pack. There isn’t much time for dresses and mailing invitations. Roman, Wedding Planner Extraordinaire, to the rescue.
Kate gathers allies for the fight against her father, like the God of Darkness (Go Cherny! Go Cherny!), the spirit of her aunt, and even Atlanta’s People faction.
The battle for Atlanta is won, with many losses. Kate and Curran get married on Ivan Kupala night and are expecting a baby.
Magic Triumphs: Book 10
Kate and Curran are navigating life as parents to a 1-year-old bundle of terrifyingly powerful joy. Anxiety grips Kate because she knows nothing will stop Roland from trying to kidnap or kill her son.
And that’s not the only danger in town: entire settlements of people go missing and Kate even finds a massive grave puddle of liquefied corpses. The druids reveal it’s an ancient enemy of her bloodline, the dragon Neig, powerful enough that Kate must bargain with Roland to help her win the battle.
Erra and Curran are preparing in secret for just this eventuality. They know that Kate and Roland’s lives are linked, and if one dies the other will follow. Curran devours elemental gods to gain power and turn himself just divine enough for one act of miracle.
Neig is defeated, but Roland betrays Kate. She stabs herself in order to kill him, which forces Roland to take the magic of the dragon and become the anchor of the pocket realm Neig lived in. Curran uses his divine power to resurrect Kate and accidentally revives Erra in the process too. He returns to being “just” the kick-ass shifter First we know and love.
Julie’s bond with Kate is severed in the moment of Kate’s death, and in order to survive the shattered link and find herself, Julie leaves Altlanta with Erra in search of their luck.
But that’s another story for another time. Kate and Curran have gained their Happy Ever After and a new type of adventure awaits.
You can read that adventure this coming Tuesday.
First?!
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So excited!!!!
Thank you! Doing the reread, but it’s going slowly due to, you know, life. And that sort of thing.
First?
Note to self, comment first then read… Thanks for the recap, Its great!
Finished my re read last night though I did include Iron and Covent as it makes more sense reading after 9 and before 10 and did Blood Heir as well.
This pump is primed!! So looking forward to next week. Thank you Mod R!!
Thank you! Those recaps were awesome and brought back so many feels.
+1
I love the summaries!
Same here. Book preordered, too.
Love this recap! Fave line: He called himself Roland, for lo, he was still an arrogant bag of dicks.
*Nods* He was!
Omg I just realised… is Roland short for Ruler of the Land? How did I not see it before?!
I believe the reference is the Medieval/Renaissance Roland from the heroic Song of Roland https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Song_of_Roland but I like your interpretation! (and he would love it hehe)
+1 giggling like mad for that one line. ????
Excellent summation, ModR.
Go Cherny!
I also think we need “Honey Badgers do care” on a mug.
I was thinking of a squad of cheerleaders shouting, “Go Cherny, Go Cherny” or “Chernabog, he’s our man if he can’t kill them, no one can”.
I’m picturing it now too and laughing. The cheerleaders dressed in black and silver with black and silver pom-poms. The colors are like what Roman wears with his robe.
Can you imagine the people creating that artwork and wondering “who ARE these people?”.
Love the cheer, BTW.
+11
Best. Recap. Phrase. Ever!
That was an absolutely EPIC recap ModR! We are not worthy ????????????????
“Team Metal Rose is born” — love it….
And I loved the summaries…
Team metal rose needs to be a mug … if it isn’t already!! ????
It SO does!
I need it on a shirt. It sounds like the name of a rock band. I want to add it to my collection.
Team Metal Rose for Life.
Could you use your modR superpowers to make it happen? Pretty please?
Thank you for the summary, it us great! I am so looking forward to next Tuesday!
Please confirm, for somehow I missed this before. Magic periods never last more than 24 hours except during a flare, which can last 2-3 days, but the Technology periods between Magic periods can be several days long?
Yes, for now ????, but magic is gaining momentum.
Added question to the question. As time goes forward doesn’t the magic wave last longer and the tech slowly gets shorter? I seem to remember Kate mentioning that that will happen until there is an equal balance of tech & magic?
That’s right! It’s never an exact science…because it’s magic hehe, but the magic will gain momentum until the balance is very thrown off, in which moment the pendulum starts swinging towards technology and the circle starts again.
According to the reports of the Order, this Shift is not the first one:
“ the Shift isn’t the first such correction our world has experienced. Evidence suggests that several advanced civilizations existed in pre-history, based on the practice magic and that they obtained a level knowledge and innovation at least equal to or surpassing our own. They had experienced their own Shift, which brought waves of technology and ultimately resulted in their demise. This is known as Second Shift Theory.”
from https://ilona-andrews.com/2020/grand-master-damian-angevin-in-his-own-words/
Thanks so much for clarifying! Very helpful, as always, Mod R.????
Thank you, Mod R for the summaries. A lot more fun than listening in on a meeting I’m in right now.
You rock with the extra comments inside the summaries. ????
I’m just going to say it: Kate, Kate, Kate! Curran, Curran, Curran! ????????
What a terrific synopsis!
Thank you.
I can’t tell you enough how awesome this us! I cackled at parts because your wording is just that awesome.
Thank you for this! I love that you get to do this as your job, but I almost love it more for us because you are so good at it.
So excited for the book!
Perfect!
Thank you!!
*wildly clapping*
Well done, Mod R! That was a masterful summary!
Most entertaining!
ModR is right up there with Gaston in the telling of the tales of House Andrews. (At least for me.)
Are we all in a tavern while she shares the saga?Because I think we should be. Does everyone have their beverage of choice? Does someone know where the guy with the lute is?
Tell on, Bard/ModR.
“for lo, he was still an arrogant bag of dicks”. made me spit out my drink. I think I want that on the next merch!
Yep, I think there was communal spit-taking on that one. 🙂
Tempest! Loved your post! MODR! Just fantastic! Thank you, Thank you!
She shall be dubbed Bard R!
ModR, you are amazing and hilarious. Thank you for the recap. Made my day!
Wonderful summary!! Thanks Mod R :*
I must admit that the passion to be the first to comment on the blog escapes me. But the summaries are helpful. Thank you.
Reading the beginning of the summary about Roland made me think that the moment the world did the first Tech shift must have been like the biggest gut-punch Roland ever experienced in his life up to that point.
And he essentially did it to himself.
Truly a masterful recap! And the asides are priceless.
I love your new look with the knitted heart, do you make your own gravatars or does someone do them for you? I can’t quite figure out how to make one once I have the account.
I make my emoji picture with Bitmoji ???? https://www.bitmoji.com/ and then upload them into Gravatar which then displays it every time I make a comment ????
“for lo, he was still an arrogant bag of dicks.” 😀
I love it. A great summary, and I’m so excited for the next adventure!!!
Loved everything about this- thank you, thank you!
????EPIC ✨thank you for that awesome summary ????
Now I have to do a re-read! Lol
Nice recap! (Go Cherny! Go Cherny!)
When I reread the series one of the things that struck me was the (mostly) incidental change in Kate’s looks on the covers. On my original paperbacks, she was solid with an almond-eyed face and straight brown hair. By the end of the series she had a heart-shaped face and somewhat wavy black hair. The Magic Tides cover(?) has yet a third facial shape and straight black hair. The joys of changing cover artists, I suppose 🙂
Thank you,Mod R. for the amazing recap!
oh, Mod R this is fabulous!!! so excited!
unrelated question (from the invitation 2 posts ago). Since the badass, universe-traveling Gerard “the Wanderer” Demille is terrified of Earth’s automobiles, are there any forms of space transportation in which he’s comfortable? Or is any transportation not used in 18th century Earth equally terrifying?
Also, was the attack on Magnolia Green in the 1700s that trapped Gerard Demille until Helen releases him (can’t wait to buy that novella!!) perpetrated by Sebastian North or was that unrelated?
You’re really something else !! Generous and so funny !!!
I cannot wait! These are also my favorite books.
Great recaps- thank you Mod R!
Great synopsis, what adventures Kate and Company have had. Plus, as a reader, I have learn so much about ancient gods, societies, and magic. It is such a great canon of information. #1/17/23
That is an awesome recap Mod R!
Thanks for the recap.
Mod R , you are a heroine! ???? Thank you.
You have a true gift for summary. I am in awe.
This has nothing to do with the KD Universe and is at best tangential to the Innkeeper series, but I thought my fellow fans might appreciate this artwork of a sentient scholar bird I just stumbled across: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/9NqgQO
Fun!
Thanks for the fun re-caps. I won’t finish the recaps before the new book comes out. I’m looking forward to Tuesday.
Best recap ever, especially the part about Roland’s attitude problem. Counting down the days until we get the new book.
This summary is absolutely perfect in both information and humor! Loved it!
That was pretty cool, thanks! And Tues is still too far away (big gusty sigh).
well done each book in a summary so insightful and really to the point I almost feel Like I’ve done a reread .
Wooooo! Mod R, thank you for sharing your magnificent summaries!
Thanks for the round up of the books!
Can I ask why releases of self published books are set to week (aka work) days as opposed to something like Friday? I had mistakenly thought release day was the 13th and was all excited to actually be able to read straight through without having to think about working the next day. Not to be, I guess. But I’ve noticed that all their releases have been on week days and wonder why that is?
Book releases are almost always scheduled for Tuesday- it’s industry tradition, for both traditional and self-pub. At its origin, the rationale is that it gives the book best odds for the Best Seller lists, which count sales from one Monday midnight to the next.
I didn’t know I needed this summary Mod R, but it was amazing and should be added to all future books lol (ok, yes I am hoping for more – BDH 4 Life) Thank you so much for some much needed laughs, particularly:
“He called himself Roland, for lo, he was still an arrogant bag of dicks.”
“Kate meets her grandma, who gives her one of her bones (as one does)”
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She was out of Werthers Originals ????
Thanks for the fab recap, Mod R!! Makes me even more eager to read Magic Tides, something that I didn’t think was possible, ha ha.
Yay!!! I wish I had that day off work, lol.
This recap should be saved somewhere so that people can go back and read it in the future. Please.
Thank you for doing this.
BRAVO!! BRAVO, ModR! That was brilliant!
My favs:
Team Metal Rose is born
Roman, Wedding Planner Extraordinaire, to the rescue!
Finished my Kate re-read last weekend so I’m eagerly awaiting.
Hope HA is feeling better. ????
Aunt B!!
I can’t reread that section…
So exciting!
“Curran has Fabio hair and gives Kate soup.”
I cannot stop laughing at this. Bravo on a fabulous and very helpful recap.
I ordered a copy of the paperback version of Magic Tides from Amazon, and they tell me it will arrive day after tomorrow. Pray they’re right!
I remember everything, but the part about Julie in the 10th book. I didn’t realize that the link with Kate was severed when she passed away. So she really is like Hugh when they lost their “gods”.
Exactly!
Only emotionally much harder, because whilst Hugh can at least intellectually think about Roland as an evil who did monstrous things to him and take the separation easier that way, Kate is still Julie’s mother, whom she loves and whose safety Julie prises above all.
It’s a LOT to feel at 18 years old.
Julie mentioned how devastating it was to lose that connection with Kate, and that if it wasn’t for her Uncle Hugh, it would have been worse. That is in Blood Heir.
I’m one of the re-readers, middle of Magic Triumphs right now (pretty chuffed with my timing, I never seem to get it right!). But this is a super awesome recap, thank you!
Just ordered my dead tree copy on Amazon! It says the book is already published and I’m getting the book delivered Saturday but I think Amazon is wrong?? It’s not up for preorder though so if you have a Kindle you might be able to get it directly idk. Excited to read it whenever it comes!
Thank you for the summation of all the books, I have such a hard time remembering the last 3-4 books ????
Because Amazon has to populate over all the different country platforms and their system has very unpredictable timings, House Andrews pulled the trigger a bit early on the physical copy to ensure that everyone would be able to get it on release day.
Some people get ???? and their copy can ship early! Congrats on being one of them and hope you enjoy the book ????
It might be because I’m an Amazon Prime member? But anyways thank you to House Andrews for allowing me to get mine a few days early!
No, nothing to do with Prime, just how the Amazon platform populates ????
Got my book today and read it in about 2 hours. It was so great being back with Kate and Curran and the rest of the gang and so much fun, my only (small) complaint it was too short. It’s like being with some old friends you haven’t hung out with in awhile! It also made me want to visit Wilmington, some of my favorite WB (now CW I guess) teen shows shot in Wilmington like One Tree Hill (also maybe Dawson’s Creek but I never watched it). Can’t wait to see what the rest of the BDH thinks 🙂
Heh. It was meant to be a short story, under 1/3 of what it is. And truly, what Kate length would even be enough for us ????
Good recap. Looking forward to the next Kate Adventure.
sorry, did I miss if this will be out in audiobook?
It will have an audiobook format, yes. There is no official release date yet but a narrator has been found ????
Awesome recap Mod R – thanks! You are also very gifted with words – was cracking up all the way through!
Love, love, love this!! ????????
So funny, and of course, the abso fav description of Roland!! ????????????
Hey, just got an email from Amazon that my print addition of Magic Tides will be delivered tomorrow. Happy dance
Yay! Congrats! I hope you enjoy the book ????
I had just done a relisten to Kate Daniels series. I just got my audible stats yesterday for 2022. Ilona Andrews was my top author and I listened to 16,598 minutes. LOL This was out of 136,084 minutes of listening for the year. (I live on a horse farm so I listen to books all day doing farm work.)
Love this synopsis. TY, TY, TY!
Thank you, Mod R! Loved the recap.
Thank you! Did a reread the series a few months ago and this was perfect for little reminders! Will read new one with delight and then read it again because I will have “devoured” it in one sitting and will then take smaller bites in a reread.
Best. Synopsis. Ever.
love the recap mod R, made me laugh out loud.
WOW! That is a wild ride!
I will reread the series too ????
Not long now till the new Kate book, soooo excited ????
thanks for the summary, was really helpful. Life caught up and kicked me in the head so I won’t have time for any re-reads
???????????????????????? ModR! An epic summary — it brought back so many memories. Thank you!
Wilmington years book one? Wilmington years book ONE!!! Me thinks we may have another series on the way!
“for lo, he was still an arrogant bag of dicks.” ???????????? Accurate. Love it!,, ????????????
A most excellent recap, Mod R! Your turn of phrase is hilarious and much appreciated!!
I’m looking forward to staying in and reading the new book, curled up on the couch, listening to even more rain come down (I’m in the California Bay Area.)
Amazing recap, ModR 🙂
Really enjoyed the summaries and can’t wait for next week!!
ModR, if you ever write a book, I will read it. Fiction, nonfiction, whatever. Put me down for three copies.
Also: “for lo, he was still an arrogant bag of dicks.” I have uses for this one.
Hear, hear!
Nice! I was just thinking it would be nice to have a recap because it’s been a long time since I read the KD books, and my life currently doesn’t allow me time for a full reread of the series 🙂 Thanks Mod R!
Nice!
Perfect, Mod R. Bravo!
Brilliant work ModR!
You have a talent Mod R, a very real talent of condensing info into a very funny understandable way. I love it.
Yeah!!
Got the audio this morning, and now have my weekend planned ????
I usually never comment on this site & just read all the awesome posts, but this recap of the whole series was so friggin’ splendid that I just *had* to commend you Mod R!
Bookmarking this for future reference in case I want to discuss the series with my friend 🙂 Thank you!
Mod R you did awesome with the synopsis. It made me chuckle in a very boring place.
Secondly, has there been any word on the Kate Graphic Audio? I listen to Innkeepers at least once a week to survive the monotonous nonsense of my job.
Yes! There are loads of words hehe. Graphic Audio are hard at work and the first release will probably be in spring!
Love this, thank you! I was indeed doing a reread though it was a little odd in that I don’t own all of the books so there were gaps, this is very helpful.
I don’t know that this is particularly the right place but I wanted to put in a plug for Ascanio. I looove Ascanio and feel like he always get the short end of the stick – seems to always loose the fight. I know he is awesome and am really hopeful for some happy times for him in the Blood Heir sequels etc. Given the stories about his rescuing the kids and Hugh’s assessment of how dangerous he is I am mostly certain I will get what I want but I’m still nervous due to Derek and his animosity.
Looking forward to the release next week!
Mod R, that was fantastic – thanks so much 🙂 bring on the 17th!!! whoop whoop!
This was too funny and so enjoyable. Thanks!!!
Awesome, Mod R! Thank you. ????
Thank you for this! I have only read book 1 and found it too grim and depressing for my tastes. (Don’t despise me, I love everything else House Andrews has written! Outside of the KD world, I own everything in the HA catalog!) The new book looks much lighter and I wanted to read it, but didn’t know how much sense it would make … and now with your excellent recap, I feel I can happily plunge into it!
Go ModR! That was an excellent recap! Can’t wait until Tuesday.
This is (these are) THE most masterful book summaries I have ever had the pleasure of reading!
And this was after the most masterful summary of Roland’s personality, “for lo, he was still an arrogant bag of dicks.”
HA, HA, HA, HA…
In all my 60+ years of obsessive (hmm, too mild a word) reading, Ilona Andrews are one (two?) of my top 5 authors’ (1st depends on my mood.)
Thank you Mod R! You’re the best!!
Oh my goodness this is wonderful! Thank you so much. I must keep this forever. Gonna try a pdf.
Mod R, we love you SO hard (from a distance and in an awesomely platonic way)!
In addition to all the kudos mentioned above, might I add that your mention of the Atlanta People in the book 9 recap instantly made me think of the Village People – feel free to imagine your own mash-up there (I live in Atlanta, so yeah!)
Of course I have been rereading the whole series in anticipation of Magic Tides. And I know I have mentioned this before in a different post, but in Magic Binds Erra swears that Kate is going to get some sort of dowry from her father. She tells Kate to pay for the army she needs out of it. It is curiosity (or possibly even pure greed) that makes me wonder what the dowry was and if Kate got it . Inquiring minds want to know.
Great recap! In anticipation I’ve already done the reread so I’m ready for TUES!!
thank you so much for writing another Kate and Curran book! I love this series so much that I have read every book and novella through at least 7 times apiece. I nearly cried when I finished magic triumphs, thinking that would be the end. I want to know what Conlan is like as he gets older, and baby B, and I thought the new blood heir book might give me my fix. it does to a point, but I still needed Kate! lol I can’t wait for the next blood heir book to be released by the way. in my opinion, this is the best of all your series. thank you so much for writing it!
The recap was great! Thanks!
I haven’t commented before, so I’m not sure if this is asked anywhere else, but it’s always bugged me…why was Dali Kate’s maid of honor, and not Andrea?
Because Andrea was already married.
Married women cannot be the “maid” of honour, at least not in the Russian tradition, and Kate is having a Russian wedding.
Thanks! I just finished Kate reread and wondered about Dali as the Maid Of Honor too.
ModR – great job as always. love your sense of humour.
Here in Canada we had Coles Notes as a study aid for books – I much prefer the ModR Notes. ????
+100!
Okay, I wasn’t sure if that was why. Thank you for answering! I know my own sister is married, but she’d just call herself “matron of honor” which might just be an American thing, I have no idea lol.
It is 🙂
Love the recap. Have sent the link to several people I an trying to get reading the series. 2 have now started. Heh
Thank you, thank you. I didn’t have time to do a reread. LOVE the synopsis and the snark. I have cleared the 17th on the calendar.
This is wonderful! I am doing a reread from book 2 but I love this thank you. I just love these books. They have pulled me through some hard times — saved by Kate and the reread!
Thank you Mod R!!!!
the reread loop has not stopped but I love the recap!
On this reread, I kinda wonder the role of Greg. Like her heartbreak for him for the first few books was present, but towards the end, even in Magic Triumphs, Voron still shows up with good ole, “sloopy.” But what about Greg?
just pondering thoughts
Team Metal Rose is born. Heh.
Hello, I wanted to ask if your books will be translated into the Czech language. I love your books so much, I read them over and over again. Thank you for answer .
Hi Česká,
Ilona Andrews don’t control the translations into foreign languages.
The local publishers and book retailers do ????.
If you would like to read Ilona Andrews books in your language/your country, please email a local publisher who publishes fiction similar to their work and let them know you would like to read us on your terms. House Andrews are very happy to sell foreign rights to other countries. They would like to have the books be available as widely as possible!
@ Mid R ! You are brilliant! Your summeries are so much fun! No, im not biased because my husband is from brasov,….
This was a nice summary, thanks! Where would I find the chronological reading order for the novellas? Where do they go in between the major KD novels? Thanks.
The reading order can be found under the Complete Book list here https://ilona-andrews.com/release-schedule/#booklist 🙂