On Saturday, I finished Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews and then promptly read Magic Burns on Sunday.

It took about half the book for me to get interested in Magic Bites. The author has created a weird, wacky world which I generally like; however, in this case it took her quite a bit of time to fully explain the world. This is book 1 of the series, but I felt like I was missing a prequel.

She made statements of fact like "the tech fell" and "the magic hit". It took me half of the book to realize that magic grew in strength and then all technology items (light bulbs, cars, etc.) stop functioning. An hour later, in the "time of tech", magic is still present, but it isn't as strong and so the technology rules.

If it had just been this book, I probably wouldn't have picked up another book by Ilona Andrews, but the second book had the same characters, so I had to see what was going to happen to them. I liked the character that is the leader of the shape shifters "Beast Lord", I didn't like the vampires at all.

In this world, vampires are brainless undead and the Master of the Dead "pilots" them. He sits in his secured location and runs the vampires like playstation. I didn't really get how one gets to be the Master of the Dead. I don't know if the master is a vampire or not. There were 200 - 300 year old vampires who didn't think for themselves. It just wasn't clear.

All in all, I'll read another book with the same characters, but I won't recommend them to anyone else.

77

Since I last counted, I have read 21 books. Add that to the 56 I had read previously and I have read 77 books since I began this blog on November 29, 2007.

Bad Blogger, Bad.

Well, I have been very bad about keeping up with my postings. Here is what I have read (I think I got them all) since I posted last:

• From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris
• If you Dare by Kresley Cole
• If you Desire by Kresley Cole
• If you Deceive by Kresley Cole
• Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
• Lover Enshrined by J.R. Ward
• Blue Smoke and Murder by Elizabeth Lowell
• Fearless Fourteen by Janet Evanovich
• Two more short stories from the "Big Fat Supernatural Wedding" book

Right now, I have started Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews. She is a new author for me. I'm not sure what I think just yet, but I have two of her books, so I'll give her a try.