Magic Bites: A Kate Daniels Novel | 
panI‘m trying to read outside of my usual genres but I didn‘t like this book. The main character‘s personality annoyed me, the magic system didn‘t make sense and the plot didn‘t really engage me though it did engage me enough to want to finish the book so I guess that‘s something. But I did like how shapechangers work in this world, I just wish they were in a better story. Maybe the other books in the series are better, I‘m not reading them though.
I‘m so excited to have my KD shirt! Kiddo already wants to steal it, just because of the cat.
I am super annoyed by something I just noticed. Curran is the one who says "it has to be Crest", when Kate offers the upir as an explanation. It fits all the facts, but it's Curran who leaps to the assumption that the monster is Crest. Curran is then absolutely furious with Kate for being wrong... about Crest, even though it's entirely possible at that point that she's still right about the upir.
Ugh, what a dick he can be at this point.
Turns out this is a great read in the (long) intervals of cutscenes in FFXIV when you're running through the Praetorium dungeon for Tomestones of Pageantry... It's familiar, so it's easy to pick up and put down when Gaius' speeches end.
That whole paragraph probably makes very little sense if you don't play FFXIV. 😅
P.S. Please do not comment telling me you don't have time to waste on video games, etc. Let me read -- or not -- in my own way.
My brain's really tired from my essay submission, and I'm... really, really tempted to just... reread this again. It's fun, it's funny, it's got more world-building than I ever expected when I was being a silly snob who wouldn't read it, and it starts off a fascinating story arc...
