Origins

"So I almost wasn't sold on this. Almost. I feel bad because I love all things Ilona Andrews, but turns out I quickly got the feel of this strange new world and I was hooked. I hadn't read this before, I'm not a big reader of anthologies. Usually there is only one author or story I'm interested in and I'm left with others that I have no intention of reading. So I missed this. Thankfully this released on it's own and I could rectify my not having read it.<br/><br/>Ilona Andrews has this superhuman special ability to write amazing stories that are vastly different from each other. This isn't like any of their other series other than it's got a weird magic world of some sort and a leading gal and guy. It helps keep me interested, versus series that blend together. I don't know how they do it, I'm just glad they can.<br/><br/>This has a fast pace. It has to, since it's a short story. But I really could have imagined this being a full length book and being completely enthralled. I'm not sure if this is a start to a new series, but if it is, sign me up!"

"<strong>Interesting world, rough start</strong><br/><br/>So.<br/><br/>I Put this book down after the first few chapters and almost didn’t pick it back up. <br/><br/>I’m glad I did because it got better. The characters got fleshed out, the MC got a bit less off-putting, and the world building got really good. That’s the good news.<br/><br/>Downside: Took me a LONG while to get truly interested in this storyline. Didn’t much care for MC, lots of car and gambling info dump at the front, from a perspective I wasn’t thrilled to look through. As a hetero female reader, I get that these kinds of books aren’t aimed at my section of the populace but there’s a limit to how much testosterone is good reading. Really. So, the opening is a bit bottom heavy on testosterone. <br/><br/>Also, truly wish the author and editor knew that commas and ellipses are NOT interchangeable. And that queues are lines of people waiting on something while CUES are things that tell people when a response is supposed to happen, like a cue for an actor to come onstage."