Review: WELL WORTH READING!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 7, 2014
Never has one book packed so much between its covers or had such a huge impact on my future reading. Ms. Frost’s books are always a must read for me. With MAGIC GRAVES I’ve been introduces to the writings of Ilona Andrews and I am counting myself the luckiest reader in the world to have discover her. Since both Ms. Frost and Ms. Andrews have novellas and excerpts from some of their other work I’m going to take them one at a time. Just a note here before I do. Both novellas included in MAGIC GRAVES are important to their respective series and should not be missed.I’m going to begin with Ms. Frost’s contribution to this book. Her novella is titled ONE FOR THE MONEY. A classic Cat and Bones story filled with wit, danger and nooky. What should have been a simple assignment turns into one of the closest calls Cat encounters in her many adventures of flirting with death. Take a spoiled-rich college girl that needs protection, add Cat’s mom Justina holed up in the same house as Bones and you have a recipe for disaster. Thing is, the danger comes from an entirely unexpected source. Fantastic read!As an added bonus to ONE FOR THE MONEY there are two excerpts included. The first three chapters to HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS, a Cat and Bones tale, will hook you and not turn lose until you get your hands on the story. The second excerpt comes from the first novel in the Night Prince Series call ONCE BURNED. This series is going to be about Vlad Tepesh, better known as Dracula. Just don’t call him that, he hates the title. From the little bit of the story that is shared I can already tell this will be another series by Ms. Frost I’ll simply have to read. No getting around it.Now on to Ms. Andrews. Thank you to whichever book god that lead me to the discovery of her stories. If you have already read any of her books you will know that I am truly grateful to be able to add her to my list of must read authors. If you’ve been reading her Kate Daniels series and not read A QUESTIONABLE CLIENT you really should correct that mistake. If you’ve not been reading the series this will give you a tiny bite into her world and the legion of strange creatures, both human and very non-human, that inhabit her post-apocalyptic Atlanta. Kate is a mercenary with extraordinary skills that takes a bodyguard assignment. To say the client, Saiman, is strange and dangerous would be a monstrous understatement.  I cannot read any of the Kate Daniels books and not crack a smile or chuckle out loud. Can’t be done. I’m obsessed with her books.Ms. Andrews has included an excerpt from book three in the Edge Series, FATE’S EDGE. And yes, this will be one more series I will be starting. The other sneak peek was a rough draft from a novella she was working on at the time. MAGIC GRIEVES will be one more story involving Kate. For a rough draft it was great and as intriguing as all the rest of the books in the series. Looking forward to being able to add it to my library.I can easily give this my HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION to anyone over the age of 18.