Take the assumption that based on the Kate Daniel's series, Ilona Andrew's series trend toward getting more awesome with each book as they go. There's a lot to say about this book but I'm concerned about the drool getting on my keyboard so let's sum it up with a math puzzle. Her main concern is putting food on the table for her brothers.

She has a magical ability that she has spent years cultivating but that is the only thing that separates her from others.

She's not your badass mainstay of the genre. It has the 'prince' performing challenges to win the lady's affection, it has a modern setting but the place where our heroine lives is half magical and half plain-old batshit insane. On The Edge is almost not a UF/PNR (Somebody tell me the difference these days?) it's more like what I always imagined that the genre should be which is a modern day fairy tale. It's this world but it has it's own rules and its own ways. This Edge factor gives the novel that nice, isolated feel that you have when reading any good fairy tale. It is populated with crazy rednecks and people who are probably not embarrassed enough about how interrelated they are. Then there is the Edge which occupies a middle ground between the two. This world is called the Weird and it is your typical 'magical' world. There is another ghost world occupying the same space in a different reality. There is our world which is completely normal. This is the story of Rose who works a minimum wage cleaning job and cares for her two young brothers with her grandmother. Well, this is Ilona Andrews giving us a whole library instead of a box of chocolates and a sleazy grin. Or at least, I think that was the point Disney was trying to get at.

Something above and beyond that makes our bookish, young but strong and passionate hearts skip a beat before we say: 'To hell with it! Beastiality can't be that bad!' Most authors think they can hand you chocolates, flowers, promises they don't intend to keep (Richelle Mead I am looking at you!)Įvery now and again though, an author does something special. Well, sometimes reading UF/PNR is a little bit like that. Somehow I just KNEW you could find kinky cogsworth shit on the internet if you just looked hard enough! Then Cogsworth and Lumiere make out and the Beast starts feeling really awkward? 'Oh, the usual: Chocolates, gifts, promises you don't intend to keep.' Do you guys remember that scene out of Beauty and the Beast when the Beast asks Cogsworth and Lumiere what present he could get for Belle?

On the Edge by Ilona Andrews