MAGIC CLAIMS, Kate Daniels: Wilmington Years Book 2 will be released at midnight. We hope you enjoy it!
It’s a new slice of life from Kate and Curran’s bespoke Happy Ever After. Which for them, of course, involves a mysterious evil that stirs in the woods and demands a tribute. Lives are in danger, ancient magic awakens, and the Beast Lord wants a moat for his son.
For those of you who haven’t ordered yet, here are the links again for your convenience. We’re aiming for an audiobook released on July 4th, and it will be a bundle of both MAGIC TIDES and MAGIC CLAIMS.
This is your official spoiler and question thread for Magic Claims.
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It is fantastic. You are fantastic. Everything is fantastic. I already read the book twice. It is terrific. As always. I love you both. I´m still laughing. The tidbit about “..and then it rained kraken for about ten seconds” . Start there and until the end.
It is amazing. Thankyou.
Thank you! Thank you thank you thank you! So much fun! ! !
I’ve been longing for a Roman book for years (or a novella, not picky) but now I might have to add Luther to my short list. He has had many dimensions added to his character in the last few books. I’m particularly intrigued by someone’s observation that he would do anything for Kate (can’t remember where I saw that).
One minor thing that really struck a note with me was the injured female hunter following Kate around and trying to make herself appear useful and valuable. With the language barrier, she had no way of knowing she was already safe, and my heart ached for her. I got echoes of Adora from that (not sure why as they are not really comparable).
Mahalo, grazie, thank you! I didn’t realize how much I needed to read this new novella about Kate. I missed her. I don’t read as much as I used to (any genres) but clinical books as I but will only purchase 3 authors only. And anything Ilona Andrews write I will purchase and read. I read the new book overnight. I was so captivated. I can’t wait until January 2024 for the next book in the series!
I’m so happy you enjoyed it!
However, there is no date for the third book as of yet, only very general ideas/estimates. As soon as anything becomes official, it will be updated on the Release schedule page https://ilona-andrews.com/release-schedule/
I loved this book, devoured it twice already! My husband has never read the series, but I had to give him a synopsis, and when I got to describing the fae in the woods, with the enslaved shapeshifters, and the white-blue hair, he goes, “Mab?! Did they kill Mab?!” Which is what I think Luther was referencing when he said “underhill”! Also, Luther’s shirts are my favorite!! And when Curran said he trusts her with his own life but not her own, and I think everyone in the BDH said “Same!” Lol
re-read finally complete (it was just as amazing the second time around!) & I have questions for Saturday. Do I need to submit them somewhere else?
1. Can a medmage heal with the tech up? I was a little confused about that between chapters 5 & 6. The magic wave ended but Nereda patched her up. . . with non-magical means, hence the painkillers?
2. Was Jeremiah the knight-defender, dead on the alter, just preserved? I assume he was taken care of post battle which gave Aaron an excuse to stay but retrieving the two other dead wouldn’t take that long.
3. The Ice Age First was not wearing a golden collar so was it a co-ruler with the fae pale queen?
Was it also fae or part fae? The bluish hair & horns made me wonder. Did it not have a warrior form? I am surprised that the shape shifters needed golden collars if there was a First to follow.
Great questions, Emily, thank you!
This is the right place to submit too ☺️
thank you! and I meant Isaac the knight pathfinder not Aaron
Did anyone else scream when Luther made an appearance? No? Just me?
My favourite part…
“The Consort is merciful and kind to a fault”, Keelan said…
“I’m sure he is”, Jushur said.
Ha!
Ha! indeed
I was so used to thinking of the book as Magic “Clams” that I missed the significance of the title until I finished!
😂
Me too!
I have a question for Saturday, if no one asked it already. There was Conlan POV in Magic Tides wasn’t there? If so, why no Conlan POV in Clams? Am I remembering wrong?
I love this series/world!! I can’t wait for more from Hugh, Julie, and Kate!!!! I need more as soon as possible!!!!
I’ve been thinking about Ascanio and I’ve often wondered if he knew that Raphael had approached Kate about not calling Ascanio in on cases anymore. If he didn’t know, would he have thought Kate was unhappy with him or feel abandoned? I’m remembering also the friction between him and Conlan in Blood Heir. Could he be jealous? Kate wasn’t his mom but for awhile they were that close.
Love the teapot scene of course and the other humor. Annoyed at the Penderton people for acting like Kate was out to enslave them and take over their town. I’m sure it’s a nice town but seriously, they heard she has a beach castle, right? Nor does it have a prestigious school for her son and Ned gave them that other property waiting for development any way they please. They have more homes than they even need. There was no logic in the complaining townsfolk, just paranoia and bigotry.
GREAT book, kate books truly feel like home to me, love them so much, hoping this wilmington&ryder interweaving series goes on for long (and fingers crossed we get a conlan series down the line, and if julie and derek have a kid, then tht kid afterward, LMAO, im insatiable)
anyways ok here are my questions:
1) i thought the “cousin” bit was referring to Nick but i saw some ppl saying it’s Hugh, and some ppl saying it’s neither? so i’m kinda confused..
2) Jim’s behaviour makes sense when explained but i quite like him so i dont like seeing him as an asshole but more than that, what is dali doing/thinking all this while??? really curious about her POV
oh, for n1, i’m watching the release party livestream now and they cleared that it’s Hugh
Yes, MORE DALI POV! I loved getting to know her in the stories about her budding romance with Jim and I wonder if she shares some of the concerns about his choices to bring in so many shifters without full background checks that others have. Spouses don’t always agree with each other and a stubborn one won’t listen when you try to warn them.
I’m betting she’s thoroughly sick of life in the fishbowl. Where does she find time for her spiritual work of helping her community find and maintain balance? (I loved learning about that whole side of her.)
My favorite quote so far: Curran “ At some point in our lives together, keeping her lovely family from trying to murder her became a full-time job for me. They were powerful, homicidal psychopaths, and they didn’t half-ass it. When they came to kill her, they gave it their all.”
House Andrews delivers once again! I’m loving the Wilmington series even more than the Atlanta series, which i never thought possible.
I’m so glad you decided to let the story go were it wanted and didn’t try to keep it to a novella. I’m really starting to see where everyone’s stories are going to intercept and it’s going to be amazing!
This book has really laid the foundation for some huge developments coming and I can not wait!
No, seriously, i can’t wait, when is the next one? 😂 BDH for life
The best happily-ever-after has to be the ending where the couple who just survived a renovation/remodeling nightmare now have limitless funds for their next project =)
As I was driving to Wilmington and Carolina Beach yesterday. I tried to envision their walk to Penderton woods. They would have had to deal with lots of water. Glad to read another book in a locale I know so well!
Is anyone else busy wondering who Kate’s cousin’s parental unit with Shinar blood could possibly be? For a long time I thought it was Roland, but Gordon said it wasn’t, and it can’t be Erra…
And also the plan for the pack-big mystery number two! I love when some things don’t get solved right away.🤗 Good for our BDH imaginations. And can I just say right here that the imagination the authorlords have just blows me away.
One thing that surprised me was how slow-moving the Atlanta pack politics seems to be. The information we got here was quite similar to that in Blood Heir. I guess it leaves more time for the mystery plan😊.
Just mind boggling good, in a supposed novella it has the impact of a long novel, though by the end of a long novel you are usually stayed;with this you get to the end and somehow the 4th stomach is empty and you want more.
One thing I hope we get in book 3 is a scene with Roland when Kate gets to describe how they beat the Fae queen and him being insufferably proud she uses all her magic. Roland is funny bc he has grown, when he tells her she is her own person and will use the magic the way she wants to, that because he and Erra screwed up doesn’t mean she will.
and of course the snarky humor, the vampire doing the tea pot dance, holy crap. and of course the magic clams! I like how in this Curran and Kate come to reconcile within themselves and recognize who they should be. Both are held back by fears out of their past but learn they are very different ppl. Their humanity comes through when they recognize the cruelty of the Fae queen.
And I am just gobsmacked how the IA team came up with the prehistoric line, absolutely brilliant. the scene with the juvenile rhinos was just too much!
The one thing I have been thinking about is Jim, after watching the zoom call and reading Magic Clams. I don’t blame the downfall of the pack on him, though he is accelerating the process because of his need to be the hero. However I don’t think he is a good person and the contrast with Curran is huge ( Curran if I understand what a foil is, is the perfect foil to Jim). Both have been bound by things that happened to them growing up, that for Curran made him want to avoid being isolated,for Jim his paranoia.
The problem is Jim is quite frankly a bigot. When Curran was sick, Jim basically leaves Kate to be attacked because she isn’t a shifter.In this book we learn he once allowed shifters to maul Kate even though they worked together in the Guild. It doesn’t matter how Jim came to be that way, his letting Kate go through the gauntlet when Curran wasn’t there was deliberate&cruel IMO. I realize we are talking shifters, with their own dynamic, but he took advantage of Curran being sick &let her go through the gauntlet bc he hated she wasn’t shifter. Curran owes Jim one hell of a beat down.
So, finally. We can find out if Kate is as loud on her feet as a baby rhino!
Hahaha. Something that Curran keeps comparing Kate to.
It always made her easy to find. LOL
I’m so happy that Kate and Curran are back. From the first page you are pulled into Kate’s world, and run non-stop until the end. I hope we have many more years with Kate and Curran. There’s so much more to their story.
I need more. Immediately! When is next book being released please? What are the plans? I am with this series since the very first book and I am awaiting next one every year. When you finished it I cried and thought my dearest friend died. I seriously went through grieving stages! Then you kept me excited with a bit of Julie, a bit of Hough and now this! I want more!!!!!
If Kate had not done the final claiming, would her people
Have died also from the pale queen withdrawing all the magic in the area?
I don’t think so. She was pulling the magic to her so she would be stronger, but the magic pull would not have effected them. Kate saved the Ice Queen’s people with the claiming and also prevented the Queen from becoming stronger.
That’s just how I read it.
I don’t know if it is too early, but I am shipping Heather and Rimush. What do you think?
Also, thank you for the short story with the kids and mushroom hunting. I must say, 2 miles is a long way to walk for mushrooms, especially in the scary woods.
Did Kate keep the 20 miles of claimed territory between Penderton and her new Ninja woods and Keep?
Is it too much to ask for snippets of the work/renovation and the how the Ice Age animals, the horned shapeshifters are doing being free from the fae control? I hope you write more about Isaac, I think he is pretty cool – Knight Pathfinder.
So was I even though there is absolutely no reason for it. LOL
I’m in “high cotton” as my southern Granny would say. A new KD book, which I read and am looking forward to reading again. And a new Martha Wells book! “The Witch King”. Nothing much getting done here in the next couple days.
With all the zoom session questions about Hugh suddenly being called Kate’s cousin and of course the fascinating answers, I had to go back and reread Magic Triumphs hoping to find the clues I’d missed. But it wasn’t until I just finished rereading Blood Heir that I felt like I found them. It’s amazing how some things can just zip right over your head while you’re enjoying all the action, heh. They must be in Magic Triumphs, too, I’ll have to look some more.
Magic Claims is such a fun book! Thank you again! It will definitely be going onto my reread occasionally list! So looking forward to the audiobook next!
Please share the Easter eggs to the cousin reference! I’m dying of curiosity lol
So I’m wondering if Kate already made the mistake that will let Barrett figure out who she is — I mean, how many navigators would say “paw print”?
Absolutely loved it! And the Ice Age angle – wow!
Brilliant book! I had to reread it on my library app to make sure Kobo didn’t short me a chapter! HA, you are wicked,just wicked! I will join that support group, ModR!