Name: Magic Gifts
ISBN: 9780451487896

Ilona Andrews

Now available individually for the first time, a Kate Daniels novella from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Magic Triumphs. It isn’t often that Kate Daniels and the Beast Lord Curran get to take a break from protecting their pack and enjoy some time for themselves. So when Curran offers Kate a romantic dinner in town, there’s no way she’s going to pass. But their quiet night doesn’t stay quiet for long. The trouble starts with a necromancer dying at a nearby table, continues with bloodthirsty vampires crashing though the windows, and ends with more blood on the walls than any dining establishment needs. Pulled into a deadly game neither wants to play, Kate and Curran find themselves dealing with the vile undead and tolerating a clan of maniacal, hard partying Vikings while desperately trying to save the life of an innocent child... Magic Gifts previously appeared in Gunmetal Magic.

A Kate Daniels Novella

Magic Gifts

Annabella

Sarah Escorsa

🐈 The Adventures Of A Brave Little Kitty Buddy Rerererereread (TAOABLKBR™) with the IA Addicts 🐈

➽ 
  And the moral of this particular rerereread is:
 I want a bunch of rowdy, homicidal neo-Vikings for Christmas. Because reasons and stuff.



Okay, so that's not exactly the type of neo-Viking I had in mind, but whatever and stuff.

👋 Until next time and stuff.



[February 2018]

⚔ 
  The Grand IAA™ KD Buddy Rerererereread Extravaganza
 (GIAAKDBRE™), aka the yellow brick road to Magic Triumphs ⚔

» 
  And the moral
 of this particular rererereread is: the Psychotic Consort (PC™) + a roaring kitty with a big mouth full of big teeth + slightly batshit crazy, drunk Vikings + vampiric skittles + somewhat epic, kickass fights + magical axes + Ghastek Goodness (GG™) + badass times at the Guild + a blue-skinned undead hottie who smells of, um, roses and drinks, um, dark stuff + Hahaha Times Galore (HTG™) =



Yes, this is me dancing ecstatically. Just so you know.

And also:



P.S. Please someone tell the chick on the cover of this book that she got lost in the wrong series. Thank thee kindly. 



[Original review (I apologize, I was 5 years old when I wrote it)]

Oh how I love the novellas and short-stories in this series! Not only are they wickedly entertaining, they also are great sources of information and add so much to the series as a whole! Everything makes a lot more sense after reading these side stories. The Andrews are so good I can’t believe it. They tie everything in perfectly, all the books are interlinked and this makes for an amazing world building. Kate Daniels’ world is so rich and dense that it really seems to come alive. 

Magic Gifts is the perfect tie-in to Gunmetal Magic as the events in both books happen at the same time. Magic Gifts is told from Kate’s POV while Gunmetal Magic is told from Andrea’s POV. Just brilliant! I loved reading the scene when Kate returns to the office to find Andrea in her beastkin form. It’s one of my favourite scenes in Gunmetal Magic and it’s great to read it with Kate as a narrative voice, it gives a whole new perspective. Poor Kate misses out on the conversation between Andrea & Curran but we don’t since the scene is featured in Gunmetal Magic, cool!

More great scenes? I love when Kate preps for the meeting with the Guild, her grand entrance before the meeting and her speech in front of the mercs. Fantastic! I love the magic, the Vikings, Kate & Jim arguing with Curran trying to play referee…“Enough," Curran said. An unmistakable command saturated his voice. Jim clicked his mouth shut. I crossed my arms. "I'm sorry, is this the part where I fall to my knees and shiver in fear, Your Furriness? Silly me, I didn't get the memo.”The final battle against the draugr is epic, amazing, violent, gory… To think I used to hate fight scenes before reading this series and I can’t get enough of them now!Curran grasped the edge of the two vertebrae and forced them apart. I cut into the cleft, slicing through the connective tissue. Cut. Cut. Cut. Cartilage crunched.Well that was pretty disgusting, ha ha! Oh and I love when Kate uses one of her power words. The magic pretty much wipes her out every time she uses one but she seems to be getting better at it with each new instalment.I opened my mouth and barked a power word. “Ossanda.” Kneel, you undead sonovabitch. The magic burst from me. It felt like someone had sunk claws into my stomach and tore out the muscle and my innards. The world went black for a tiny moment.It doesn’t get much cooler than that! 

Favourite series ever? Oh yes, most definitely!

Imane

Yes I'm starved for KD Literary Universe content so I'll just read and re-read the whole series including the novellas until the day I die. Also VIKINGS!

Nickie Mohler

As always with this series, I really enjoyed this. 

Kate and Curran decide to go out to dinner. 
That's just way too normal. 
The universe had other ideas.

Magic Gifts A Kate Daniels Novella