Magic Triumphs

Kate has come to terms with claiming Atlanta. While she doesn’t like how drastically life has changed, she has had no choice but to accept it and move on. And now that far reaching dream of a home and family has come true. Kate has a family and a group of friends willing to defend them. When her father puts out a hit on her son, and an ancient enemy rears its head to attack Atlanta, it’s just another battle to Kate and the crew. But this time Kate has a lot more to lose. Watching Kate as she struggles to balance being a mother and working her cases was a new level of entertainment. Ilona Andrews paired the skills Kate developed in the field into motherhood so well, even though I would never have thought the two would coincide. But having lightning fast reflexes with a toddler does come in handy. Especially because a child from Curran and Kate is bound to get into trouble, repeatedly. There were a few areas where the book time jumps. But even with the slight gaps in the story, it flowed well, and I understood why the pace needed to pick up. Being the last in the series, Magic Triumphs, had a lot of loose ends to tie up. True to the Kate Daniels’ style, the pages flew by, but Ilona Andrews brought the series around full circle and made sure nothing was left unanswered. They even snuck in one last new culture of monsters and symbolism. The final installment in the Kate Daniels series is everything fans of the series could hope for. Everything we have come to know and love about the series is compounded into one last book, and some older characters we haven’t seen in a while have a last chance to shine. There are myriad of short stories that take place in between the major books of the series, and I’m going to backtrack to read them and stay in this world a little bit longer. I’m just not ready to say goodbye.

This series was a definite delight. I couldn't stop. I laughed and cried with it. Fell in love with characters. Especially Grendel. I wish he'd been in the series more. He'd get referenced often but wasn't actually part of it and you began to wonder if he was even still with Kate. Right when you wonder oh there is Conlin cuddling with him. That was Grendel's only scene in this one. Which is my only complaint. Not enough Grendel.

Eleventy billion stars. Sheer perfection, the grand finale to an amazing series that made me laugh and cry, that has introduced all kinds of folklore and creatures and history to me. Kate and Curran and all the factions we have met over the past nine books come together to fight the worst enemy yet. All our old favourites are here one last time and it is EPIC. Ilona Andrews did us proud, it could only have been better if it were 10 times longer.