An ancient power is stalking her adopted mother, Kate Daniels, an enemy unlike any other, and a string of horrifying murders is its opening gambit. Now she's back with a new face, a new magic, and a new name-Aurelia Ryder-drawn by the urgent need to protect the family she left behind. Now, as waves of magic and technology compete for supremacy, it's a place caught in a slow apocalypse, where monsters spawn among the crumbling skyscrapers and supernatural factions struggle for power and survival.Įight years ago, Julie Lennart left Atlanta to find out who she was. I can’t wait to read the next one.From award-winning author, Ilona Andrews, an all-new novel set in the New York Times #1 bestselling Kate Daniels World and featuring Julie Lennart-Olsen, Kate and Curran's ward.Ītlanta was always a dangerous city. I was so excited to return to the world of Kate Daniels and this book didn’t disappoint! Aurelia is exciting and fearless, badass and smart.

We’re certainly plopped right into Aurelia’s ongoing battle with them, and don’t quite understand the history of Moloch or why he wants to kill Kate or obtain Aurelia (just that he does and Aurelia will protect her adoptive mother at all costs). It was a little hard to follow along with the high priests of Moloch (that seemed sort of like wraiths on fire with limitless power over fire) and where they had come from. Aurelia is saucy like Kate, and has access to blood magic like Kate, but also has innate sensate abilities (that I had forgotten about) that allows her to see the different colored threads of magic from regular humans, shifters, mages and the divine.

Waves of magic and tech overlap, rendering half the tools useless most of the time this happens at inopportune times for our heroine. And our main characters have new powers and new identities, that make me super excited to continue to read this series and see how they’ll resolve who they were with who they’ve become. We’re re-introduced to the same characters we know and love, but they’ve changed. It’s really cool to see that Kate’s personal family history has evolved and taken on a role of it’s own within this new half-magic, half-tech world of ruined Atlanta. It’s still the rich, vivid world we encountered in the Kate Daniels series, but it’s continued to evolve and grow, especially the world and politics and history of New Shinar. This book immediately draws you into the world and fills you in on who people are (instead of relying on your memory from the last Kate Daniels book you read awhile ago.) - which I appreciated because it made it easy to follow along.

Blood Heir by Ilona Andrews