Diamond Fire etc by Ilona Andrews
Nov. 5th, 2022 03:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lightreadsDiamond Fire, Sapphire Flames, Emerald Blaze, Ruby Fever
3/5? 4/5? Urban fantasy romance trilogy plus novella about the second daughter in a magical family (the first daughter got her own trilogy). I’d say read that one first but it honestly doesn’t matter as these stories are remarkably the same – scrappy young woman carrying the responsibility for her scrappy, delightful family ends up in magical trouble and also makes the hottest richest man ever get obsessed with her, also family history stuff.
It's funny that these are published by a romance imprint considering the romance is last on the list of things I care about here. The family feels are first with a bullet (really terrific grade A stuff, if you’re into that), and the interesting magical society, and the power conflicts. The he’s-so-hot-because-he’s-violent romance, which is their only play as authors, apparently, does not make the cut for me.
That said, I read these in a weekend, and enjoyed them a lot. Just not, you know, for what I was supposed to.
3/5? 4/5? Urban fantasy romance trilogy plus novella about the second daughter in a magical family (the first daughter got her own trilogy). I’d say read that one first but it honestly doesn’t matter as these stories are remarkably the same – scrappy young woman carrying the responsibility for her scrappy, delightful family ends up in magical trouble and also makes the hottest richest man ever get obsessed with her, also family history stuff.
It's funny that these are published by a romance imprint considering the romance is last on the list of things I care about here. The family feels are first with a bullet (really terrific grade A stuff, if you’re into that), and the interesting magical society, and the power conflicts. The he’s-so-hot-because-he’s-violent romance, which is their only play as authors, apparently, does not make the cut for me.
That said, I read these in a weekend, and enjoyed them a lot. Just not, you know, for what I was supposed to.
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Date: 2022-11-05 07:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-11-05 08:11 pm (UTC)Yeah, which you can do since they are all, essentially, the same.
I did dig the sister dynamics in these, despite all the nonsense they had to deploy to keep Nevada and whathisface from swooping in and solving all the problems with money/resources.