Magic Binds introduced an enemy to Kate’s family back in the days when magic still reigned in the world. Instead, while that conflict is spectacularly resolved, for most of the novel it takes a back seat to a threat even more dangerous. I had expected for the final story to revolve entirely around that conflict, again contrasting Roland, the Big Bad of the series, with Kate, the daughter who wants desperately to overcome her family heritage by using her powers for good. She literally charges toward him on the field, ready to kill him-even though it will mean her own death-and he retreats, vanishing from the conflict. Magic Binds, the penultimate book in the series, concludes with a face-off between Kate and her father. Read the latest Den of Geek Special Edition Magazine Here!

Which means that Kate is running out of time to find allies to stand against this overwhelming force-and it may mean she has to reconcile with the father who’s been trying to subjugate her. Where Roland wants to conquer everything, this new enemy is ready to destroy: to raze the world and everything in it. When she arrives on the scene of an abandoned town-and later, discovers a puddle of human remains that shows the humans were boiled so their bones could be extracted-it’s a bit much for even Kate to handle.Īs it turns out, there’s a new Big Bad on the scene, even worse than Kate’s father, Roland.

When Teddy Jo, a modern incarnation of Thanatos, Greek god of death, shows up at the door of Kate’s investigator’s office because he’s encountered something that makes him agitated, Kate knows something is very wrong. If they’re a little overprotective, it’s because people are literally trying to kill them a lot of the time, which makes their paranoia understandable. Jump ahead thirteen months: Kate and husband Curran (former Beast Lord, a special high-powered kind of shapeshifter known as a First, and current leader of the Mercenary’s Guild) are rocking the new parent thing. She defends her family with everything she’s got-a huge theme in this book-before slumping back into post-labor oxytocin bliss, holding her newborn.

But, as also happens when you’re the daughter of the greatest power in the world, Kate’s no slouch and, even post-labor, she’s not willing to give in. And, as happens if you’re the daughter of the greatest power in the world since magic reawakened, Kate’s father tries to steal the baby when Kate’s at her weakest. Magic Triumphs begins with a short prologue chapter showing Kate giving birth to the son previously revealed to her in visions.

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