On the Edge by Ilona Andrews
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Welcome to the Edge, its basically the hood of the magical world A hidden place that exists between the magic and the mundane, where weirdos like Rose and her brothers can live and try to do their fucking best
Honestly, this was the first Illona Andrews book I’ve read and just felt… indifferent about
Sure the world is unique, the second characters interesting and a romance added to the general plot adventure….
But the characters don’t really interact with the unique world or explain its dynamics, the plot felt sudden and pieced together, the most interesting characters are sidelined, and the love interest’s pretentiousness constantly turned me off
So let’s Pro Con this bitch:
This book had two key unique features that actually surprised me *which aint easy after lotta urban fantasies** First was the idea of the Edge that’s a gray area between everything and allows her to have both elements in Rose’s life. And secondly, her freaking 👏🏻cute 👏🏻troublemaking 👏🏻brothers
It was such an cute adorable family element addition to a urban fantasy novel that I just adored and really added to Rose’s character. Where some heroine are total loners, Rose thrives and steers her live based on what best for her fam
Rose is the older protective sister who will do ANYTHING for her brothers… including beat em up when they annoy her *hehe*
“William glanced at her. “Does your sister ground you often?”
“No. She mostly does this.” Georgie rolled his eyes in perfect imitation of her and muttered, “Why me?”
I loved these two little troublemakers, who honestly had pretty interesting storylines for secondary characters. I mean we got Georgie learning his necromancer power and Jack a cat shifter having a hard life BUT STILL LAUGH AND LOVE EACH OTHER and Rose just wants to do whats best for them
“Also, Georgie has a note from his teacher, something about stone books.”
“Stone books?” Rose frowned.
“Yes. I think he needs one made of marble.”
“Marble composition book,” Rose guessed.”
Actually the more I think about it, I think I preferred Georgie and Jack’s stories and POV, more than the romance of the novel… I mean seriously the scenes of her trying to control these little fuckers with amazing powers but limited knowledge was hIlArIoUs!
And now how to describe Declan our love interest? With a series of gifs + quotes!
Be forewarned, the romance was a *slow slow slow slow slow burn*
I’m talking, like over 50% of the book done and bitches aint even KISSED yet. They go from hate to whoa slow the fuck down to tolerating each other to sass to maybe somethings to… okay yeah you get it *eye roll*
He was exactly what you expected of a blueblood noble, with his borderline snobbish behavior. Sometimes he would act like a total DICK, then get all mad when his honor is questioned wtf
“I gave you no reason to believe that I’ll abandon you. Or murder the children and leave them on the side of the road. Really, that was priceless. I was a bit put out.”
I can see the trope that the author was going for… but babe I wasn’t really buying it. She was too hard and focused only on family. He was too focused on appearances. Together they made… a psychotic love match
“When you beat him bloody today, it was glorious.”
The hard line of his mouth relaxed slightly. “Glorious?” he said.
She nodded. “I’ll cherish the memory of him rolling around in his own puke for the rest of my life”
But it’s Illona Andrews you gotta read it *duhhhhhh*
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