Ilona Andrews

Sweep in Peace

Vicky  Nuñez 

IIf you have yet to read an Ilona Andrews book this series is definitely a great way to start. Filled with awesome characters and great worldbuilding, it will keep you entertained.

Petaco

Illona Andrews sure can write an adventure! Love the chef!

Jasmine

Considering I read the first one in the summer and absolutely loved it, I was surprised how much that wasn't the case this one. I actually had even forgotten to rate it I was so disappointed how much I didn't find myself invested in the story or couldn't care less what happened to the inn or the characters. I still might read the third sometimes because this book had its moments but otherwise it was pretty slow and boring and lack the character that the first book had. This is the first Ilona Andrew book that was just meh for me but I still love their writing.

Janice Hopper

This is book 2 of a series, but I got enough of the gist of book 1 from context that I didn't feel MUCH loss by not having read it.

This was a light and pleasant read. Dina, the Innkeeper of the series name, hosts a peace summit with 3 mutually hostile groups. It's a chance for her to get her Inn a little more visibility. But it will be really dangerous because two of the groups are really and truly warriors at each other's throats. (Think orcs vs vampires a little, but the orcs are more human, but BIG AND SCARY, the the vampires are less about hiding from the sun and sucking blood than about baring their fangs in threat displays and being BIG AND SCARY.) The third party, the Merchants, look like adorable blue foxes, but they're known for their cutthroat dealings.

And Dina has to keep them all from killing each other AND working to broker peace on a valuable planet.

I quite liked the Inn as a place of magic that follows the Innkeeper's will. Earth is apparently a sort of way station for the galaxy, with the Inns as places they can pass through. There's a lot of magic, or technology that's functionally indistinguishable from magic. There's instantaneous transportation and invulnerable suits of armor. 

In my old age I've sometimes rolled my eyes at stories like these as being a little easy and simplistic, but cripes, we're still in a pandemic and the world is insane, and I was really pretty okay with this all around. There wasn't even much romance, always a plus for me. (Nothing against romance, just not my thing.)

+1, would probably read more like this.

Sweep in Peace

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