Iron and Magic (The Iron Covenant, #1) in SOS: Serious Overload of Series

Jul 20, 2018 D.G. rated it really liked it

Shelves: audiobook, favorite-series, urban-fantasy, favorite-author

Steve.FREAKING.West is narrating.

I haven't been reading much UF this year but Steve West + Ilona Andrews is a combo that I can't resist!

(I'll just have to read Kate Daniels #9 first.) ...more

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May 14, 2017 Thenia rated it liked it

Shelves: r-ab, magic, reviewed, shifters, 2018, series, paranormal, vampires, romance, 2021

Iron and Magic on Books On Track

The story of Hugh d'Ambray, Preceptor of the Iron Dogs and former Warlord of Roland, aka Kate's father. It started out as an April Fool's day joke, but people actually wanted to read his story, so the authorlords obliged.

First, I have to give them props for managing to redeem a character who had nearly no redeeming qualities before. I was more than a little hesitant to read his story, since I didn't know if that was possible after all the shit he'd done. In that t ...more

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Dec 01, 2019 Netanella rated it it was amazing

Shelves: paranormal-romance, urban-fantasy, fantasy-romance, witches, 2019-november-reading-challenges, 2019-december-reading-challenges

I must be the lone freak on this site, but I read Iron and Magic as a stand alone. Yup, I've never read a Kate Daniels book (yet), but I have heard of them and they've been meaning to get on my TBR pile for a while now.

Thankfully I had no issues with backstory, and I don't really feel spoiled about wanting to dig in to the Kate Daniels series, even if I know that some of the characters will eventually die at the hands of Hugh.

This book, the highly-anticipated story of the arch-villain Hugh d'A ...more

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Jan 29, 2022 Deyara rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fantasy, char-magic-users, char-military, setting-alternate-universe, fantasy-romance, swords, setting-forest-woods

Great addition to the world, loved seeing things from the other side and the Elara-Hugh matchup was good. Enjoyed the elephant resolution, and the use of ASL. Lots of new interesting characters too, will be excited to see where this series goes.

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Jul 09, 2018 Jesslyn rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: auto-buy-author, auto-buy-series, cat-new-series, cat-not-on-audio, cat-magical-fantasy, z2018-kindle-reads

Ilona Andrews is on my auto-buy list, but my enthusiasm for this story was a bit weak. More fool me. These two could make a great story out of my grocery list. I won't doubt them again and really looking forward to more of the story. I'm also dying to hear the audiobook when released. Renee does a great job on the other series and I have high hopes for this one as well. ...more

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Jul 02, 2018 Arlene rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Never a surprise

Of course it is absolutely fantastic. Love all ilona andrews’works! Always an auto-buy for me and never disappoints. Will be waiting for the one

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Jun 23, 2020 Logan rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: urban-fantasy, meet-greet-read, 2020-books-read

Not my favorite. I was bored for most of the book and just didn’t get into the enemies-to-lovers trope for these two. No chemistry for me. But it was enjoyable to be back in this world even without Kate and Curran. It makes me want to go back and read the last few books in that series.

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