Magic Triumphs by Ilona Andrews
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lightreadsMagic Triumphs
2/5. And to complete the trifecta of shit I read in the bad times, we have urban fantasy with werelion sex. Really no bestiality in this one, though. And I guess this is the end of the series? I was supremely uninterested in this final battle and parade of magic mcguffins, and I can't tell if that's just where I am right now, or if I'm as over urban fantasy as I feel. It's all just so incredibly samey, which I say with full consciousness that hello, I read fanfiction. But there's satisfying samey and boring samey, and for several years now commercial urban fantasy has been way over on the boring end. It's all just so conservative – about sex (either deeply vanilla or fucking around with consent while gaslighting the reader that it's all completely fine), about monogamy, about what family means. This series wasn't all of those things, and it has the plus of an unapologetically violent lady protagonist. But still. Fundamentally samey.
2/5. And to complete the trifecta of shit I read in the bad times, we have urban fantasy with werelion sex. Really no bestiality in this one, though. And I guess this is the end of the series? I was supremely uninterested in this final battle and parade of magic mcguffins, and I can't tell if that's just where I am right now, or if I'm as over urban fantasy as I feel. It's all just so incredibly samey, which I say with full consciousness that hello, I read fanfiction. But there's satisfying samey and boring samey, and for several years now commercial urban fantasy has been way over on the boring end. It's all just so conservative – about sex (either deeply vanilla or fucking around with consent while gaslighting the reader that it's all completely fine), about monogamy, about what family means. This series wasn't all of those things, and it has the plus of an unapologetically violent lady protagonist. But still. Fundamentally samey.