On The Edge Audiobook by Ilona Andrews

Posted by on Sep 27, 2012 in Reviews |

Review of: On the Edge Audiobook
Audiobook:
Ilona Andrews

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4.5
On September 27, 2012
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Summary:

On The Edge Audiobook

By: Ilona Andrews

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Published by: Tantor Media 01/2010


Warm
12 hrs and 8 mins

 

 Rose Drayton lives on the Edge, between the world of the Broken (where people drive cars, shop at Wal-Mart, and magic is a fairy tale) and the Weird (where blueblood aristocrats rule, changelings roam, and the strength of your magic can change your destiny). Only Edgers like Rose can easily travel from one world to the next, but they never truly belong in either.

Rose thought if she practiced her magic, she could build a better life for herself. But things didn’t turn out how she planned, and now she works a minimum wage, off the books job in the Broken just to survive. Then Declan Camarine, a blueblood noble straight out of the deepest part of the Weird, comes into her life, determined to have her (and her power).

But when a terrible danger invades the Edge from the Weird, a flood of creatures hungry for magic, Declan and Rose must work together to destroy them—or they’ll devour the Edge and everyone in it.

Reviewed by Lisa Kay

And this one was fun. I enjoyed it much more than the second one in this action-packed urban fantasy series. (Maybe I should have listened to that one, instead of reading it? Though, another thing about this one, I didn’t care for Cerise’s voice.)

On first look, our hero Kaldar Mar, and our heroine Audrey Callahan, appear to be two birds of a feather: both cons. However, they have different reasons for their professions: he sees it as a lucrative way of supporting his family; she’s trying to get away from hers. He’s in it for the long haul; she in for one last heist so she can live a normal life in the Broken closing cases for investigator Dominic Milano. Yet these two grifters are very alike, making them a slick team when they join forces.

We also are treated with Jack and George – Rose’s younger brothers from book one – and Gaston, Kaldar’s nephew who works with him as an agent for the Mirror (a policing agency for Adrianglia that’s on the q.t.). My heart goes out to both the younger kids, but especially Jack; the little lynx shapeshifter has made one too many social faux pas and is worried Declan will send him away to a private school. (As if!) It is a delight to get to see things from his POV.

There is a neat mystery here with lots of political intrigue and betrayals involving stolen Egyptian bracelets, set in the Andrews’ unique worlds of the Weird, the Broken, and the Edge in between. There is a ton of magic and a plethora of interesting characters: sword-wielding warriors, a wyvern, a raccoon, flash sharpshooters, a slayer shadow, a tent-revival preacher, enhanced hunters, and heaps more – not to mention the Hand agents that are after the protagonists. The pace is fast, the romance hot, the humor plentiful – but not at the expense of the emotional depth.

Needless to say, this series should definitely should be read in order!

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