Review: Wildfire

Wildfire by Ilona Andrews
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I received a copy of this book from Edelweiss Plus and Harper Collins in exchange for an honest review.

As most who follow my reviews will have noted, getting me to read paranormal romance is kind of like dragging me off screaming into the dark to be tortured. I'm more of a high fantasy, urban fantasy, fae fantasy kind of girl, if I'm going to be reading about fantastical things. So how exactly did I get here, you may ask, and I may ask myself, as well. Ilona Andrews, those clever writers, hooked me long ago with the beginning of their truly fabulous Kate Daniel series, which I refuse to avow as mere paranormal romance due to its superior fantasy elements drawing from Russian and Asian folk and fairy tales and its fabulous balance of world-building and character development. The characters! The humor! The weaving of Russian folktales into a well-developed modern story! Skillz. These two have them and then some. So I followed them into The Edge/Innkeeper world and then into the Hidden Legacy World, in spite of the latter's truly abysmal covers. Covers which frankly I might add, I also find misleading. Yeah, there's the hot guy. But Hidden Legacy is more about the Baylor Family and I struggle to think of another "writer" in this urban fantasy/paranormal romance genre that can write family the way Ilona Andrews can. (The covers would be more accurate if Nevada was alone on the first cover ("Burn for Me"), if Nevada, and her teasing sisters Catalina and Arabella, were on the second cover (White Hot"), and for the third book... Well, here it's true that it's all about Nevada and Rogan. And grandma. And Catalina and Arabella and Bern and Leon. And a few other interesting characters. Oh, well, I read in ebook format, so I don't have to complain, too much.)

Wildfire is a wonderfully written entry in the Hidden Legacy series and it will answer about 85% of your questions about Victoria Tremaine and what she wants with Nevada and the Baylor family. You'll finally see more about Arabella's powers, Leon's gifts, and decision about said same gifts, and whether or not House Baylor is a go. You'll also see if Nevada and Rogan are a go. (It is a romance, after all.) Most of all, what you will see is some of the best genre fiction writing out there.

Happily, I still have soooo many unanswered questions about who is plotting a magical takeover of the political structure and why. Which to me means there's plenty of material for another couple of books, Harper Collins. And to that I say...



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