Diamond Fire etc by Ilona Andrews

[lightreads]

Diamond 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.

Comments

[afrikate]

I just finished the last one in the series and I also enjoy them for the family feels and the interesting world building. The final conflict/ending felt rushed to me, but otherwise, an enjoyable series overall. I'm interested to see if they move onto the 3rd sister.

[lightreads]

Yeah, they apparently were like "how dare you" when people asked about the third sister books because they got all righteous about how she's still a child, she can't be meeting the love of her life, blah blah blah. And yet now they seem to be setting something up for her aged up, which, whatever, it's the obvious solution (and also, I'm sure the ca$h doesn't hurt).