patchworkbunny reviewed Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews
Review of 'Magic Bites' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
I keep seeing the Kate Daniels series by Ilona Andrews mentioned and it's been a while since I read this kind of urban fantasy so I grabbed Magic Bites from the library. It's set in the future after a major magical event which means magic and tech can't co-exist at the same time. When magic rises, electricity doesn't work, and when the tech rises, spells fail.
Other than that it's quite standard urban fantasy fare but so many magical creatures are thrown at you in a short space of time. I think the different bits of world-building needed to be introduced slowly. I didn't take enough in to have any chance of trying to work out who the bad guy was. It's pretty dark and there is more than one reference to rape. I might try the next one from the library again, but I'm not grabbed immediately.
