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I'm a late arrival to the I.A. feast. Urban Fantasy has not been my top genre and I typically prefer romance to take a more dominant place in my novels and to have a bit more of an adult edge to it. However, after I ventured into this writing team's realms a few weeks ago with Burn For Me, I promptly dove into the feast of the Andrews team books with all the gustatory appetite they deserve.

The central themes and character development in this four book series transcend genre. And, the romance is deep and fulfilling to those of us whose appetite for that is endless.

I didn't think the author team could give me anything better than Declan and Rose in book one but I was certainly left with angst regarding Williams character in it. Thankfully, in this second book William comes to the fore, incandescent in his beauty of soul and spirit as a fighter and as the man himself, with the radiance of a Harvest moon. Cerise is a powerhouse of a woman to match him. The sheer scope of emotional depth not to mention intellect in these two is spellbinding.

The layers upon layers of relationship and connection rippling out from William and Cerise are as complex and endless as the myriad ripples seen on the surface of a deep forest lake in the tempest of a summer storm. They are mesmerizing and I found myself rereading sections simply to increase my absorption of the detail. This is a banquet you cannot rush, so many individual flavors that bear savoring.

I'm not good at tracing the plot step by step as other reviewers will do and do well. My inspiration to write a review comes from the intensity and emotional context through which I experience the characters and their world. Is the quality of the writing such that I can genuinely live in this world with them? Feel their anguish, terror or passion? Know their torment or their peace as if it were my own? Was it so real to me, for the ephemeral moments that I lived with them, that upon returning to this world I'm shaking from the force of the transition, weak kneed and dizzy trying to compensate for the loss of that magic, much like crossing the boundary of the Edge? Oh, yes. All that and more.

If you are a reader inspired by similar tastes, you'll find a glorious and subtle blend of flavors to savor in this book. But be warned, once you develop a taste for this you'll never accept substitutes!


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Bayou Moon The Edge Book 2 Ilona Andrews 9780441019458 Books Reviews

I do like this book, so I don't want to rate it the same as every other luke-warm genre novel that I feel just blends into the crowd. Bayou Moon is better than that, but it ends up having some themes that get tiring after a while. Also, is it me, or does every bit of dialogue between these characters get explained in narrative exposition right after the characters are done speaking? The pattern begins to get repetitive and a little tedious about halfway through. I kept thinking that these characters' dialogue should be able to speak for itself once in a while, but their communication remains steadily burdened with explanation. Thematically though, I ended up feeling like this must have been largely written by a man. That's not a bad thing in itself, but there was just this constant edge of male domination between the characters that defined all the tension. There's this macho thing of the male characters sizing one another up in terms of body language, how much of a physical threat they represent, lack or abundance of assertiveness and logic, "the smell of fear" being on whoever's skin, et cetera. I get that it was a book about a militaristic family and a guy who'd been exiled from a different military, but by the time the bad guy came around, being all super scary by "smelling his underlings' fear" and smashing furniture to make a point and other such uber-machoness, it just reached the point of being a little silly. It calls to mind the whole "men are animals, women are people" BS line of popular logic. Realistically though, culture informs people of how they should be, and all the macho stuff aside, in this book, the people definitely have their own special cultures, full of gritty, dark, magical, cool stuff. All in all, I figure a little silly never killed no one. This is still a sexy, interesting, fun, engrossing book, even with it's shortcomings. So if you can stand the silly and like the sound of the other stuff in this novel, it is definitely worth a read. It is fun and badass, and kind of hot.
This is the second book in "The Edge" series by Ilona Andrews. “Ilona Andrews” is the pseudonym for a husband-and-wife writing team. This book is about a world divided into three different worlds. The Broken is the world we live in where no magic exists. The Weird is where there is magic. Both humans and some creatures in the Weird have magic. The edge is the narrow boundary between the worlds. Here magic exists, but only in a weaker state than in the Weird. Also some of the Broken's technology will work in the Edge but not all. The people who live in the Edge can travel into the Broken but if they stay too long they will lose their magic and be unable to return. Some but not all can travel into the Weird but only if their magic is very strong. Most people in the Broken and in the Weird can't travel from one world to another and most don't know the other even exists.
In this one Cerise Mar and her clan live in the "Mire", a swampland located in the Edge near the state of Louisiana in the Broken and the Kingdom of Louisiana in the Weird. The Kingdom Of Louisiana and the country of Adrianglia in the Weird are nearing a war with other and the Kingdom of Louisiana sends it's most feared agent, Spider, into the Edge where he kidnaps Cerise Mar's parents with the help of a rival clan, the Sheerlies who have been at feud with the Mar's for many generations. Cerise is left to take charge of her clan and get her parents back. Meanwhile a group from the Weird called "The Mirror" has hired William an ex-solder and a shapeshifter to go after Spider and find out why he kidnapped the elder Mar's. He meets Cerise and immediately falls for her and he decides to help her find her parents while he also finds out what Spider is up to. He also has and old grudge against Spider who killed some Innocent children and he intends to kill him. This book has many twists and turns and plenty of action and a little romance too. I recommend to fans of Ilona Andrews.
I'm a late arrival to the I.A. feast. Urban Fantasy has not been my top genre and I typically prefer romance to take a more dominant place in my novels and to have a bit more of an adult edge to it. However, after I ventured into this writing team's realms a few weeks ago with Burn For Me, I promptly dove into the feast of the Andrews team books with all the gustatory appetite they deserve.

The central themes and character development in this four book series transcend genre. And, the romance is deep and fulfilling to those of us whose appetite for that is endless.

I didn't think the author team could give me anything better than Declan and Rose in book one but I was certainly left with angst regarding Williams character in it. Thankfully, in this second book William comes to the fore, incandescent in his beauty of soul and spirit as a fighter and as the man himself, with the radiance of a Harvest moon. Cerise is a powerhouse of a woman to match him. The sheer scope of emotional depth not to mention intellect in these two is spellbinding.

The layers upon layers of relationship and connection rippling out from William and Cerise are as complex and endless as the myriad ripples seen on the surface of a deep forest lake in the tempest of a summer storm. They are mesmerizing and I found myself rereading sections simply to increase my absorption of the detail. This is a banquet you cannot rush, so many individual flavors that bear savoring.

I'm not good at tracing the plot step by step as other reviewers will do and do well. My inspiration to write a review comes from the intensity and emotional context through which I experience the characters and their world. Is the quality of the writing such that I can genuinely live in this world with them? Feel their anguish, terror or passion? Know their torment or their peace as if it were my own? Was it so real to me, for the ephemeral moments that I lived with them, that upon returning to this world I'm shaking from the force of the transition, weak kneed and dizzy trying to compensate for the loss of that magic, much like crossing the boundary of the Edge? Oh, yes. All that and more.

If you are a reader inspired by similar tastes, you'll find a glorious and subtle blend of flavors to savor in this book. But be warned, once you develop a taste for this you'll never accept substitutes!