Reader Review: I must have walked past this series a hundred times. I'm a big Sookie Stackhouse, Rachel Caine, Cassie Palmer fan. I have quite a few series that are must buys for me, and then you drop down to the ...these aren't bad series that you read while you're waiting for your favorite author to crank out the next MUST READ addition to your favorite series. Then you go to the ones where you just know you aren't going to like it but you buy it anyway OR you have no idea and take a gamble...because it isn't the seemingly only 3-4 months a year that the good series are released in. LIke May or November. Now sometimes you wind up with winners, like the Tempest series. And Jennifer Estep has been a huge suprise.I never saw that coming, really hating the idea of an assassin as a protagonist. But surprises can be good things, and might I say...Kate Daniels can now be added to the list. I can't wait to work my way through all these books. I'm totally digging Curran. I think he let her get away with a little more sassy mouth then a man of his persuasion would have. So I'm a little afraid it (book two) can't live up to the first book, which although a little to graphically horror for me was exceptional. I really didn't think I'd like this series. Maybe it was the lion on the cover (although as a kid I was a big Aslan fan!), maybe it was all the comments on how bad ass and smart mouthed she is. I find this to be a really over used trope at this point. Does the world need another Anita Blake? The first one was so great...until she wasn't. But Kate won me over. She isn't always running into trouble, shooting her mouth off and then being surprised by the consequences. She sometimes is, but often she actually plans for the bad stuff to happen and when you think, oh...she blew it, turns out she had a plan in her back pocket. There was a wonderful example of this during her first face to face with a villain. She's brave, a great fighter, has some mysterious powers and sword and parentage (okay that does sound like it should be forumlaic) but it works. Maybe it is the great solid world building that every reviewer comments on, maybe it is the terrific side characters that stay with you, but ultimately I think it comes down to the main character. I like her. Whether I still will 2-3 books into this I can't say but I'm willing to bet $5.00 or so on it that I will. Which should just about cover the cost to download.

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