Rose Drayton has lived all her life in the Edge. The Edge is a small strip of land stretching between the Broken (the world as we know it and completely non magical) and the Weird (magic, magic everywhere). Edgers usually possess a little magic and can travel freely between both worlds, but usually stick to themselves. Living in the Edge will make you tough all by itself without compounding the fact that Rose has had to raise her two younger brothers all alone while defending herself from bride-hunting bluebloods and Edgers alike who simply would like her as a brood mare due to her impressive magical abilities. To say she has some trust issues with males and outsiders in general would be an understatement. So when an imposing blueblood Lord Declan Camarine shows up on her land declaring Rose to be 'his' and demanding three challenges to win her hand, Rose is less than enthusiastic. Her response is to shoot Declan with a cross-bow. Not that she hits him, but still, my kind of girl. Rose is already feeling a little out of her league, when some truly nasty creatures begin showing up in the Edge and fighting them off might become the hardest thing she's had to do yet...besides accepting Declan's help.Out of all the characters in this novel, Rose's two younger brothers, Jack (a shape shifter) and Georgie (a boy who can raise the dead), were obvious standouts. They trust Rose implicitly and even though they sometimes don't follow instructions explicitly (they are boys) they stole my heart. Both Rose and Declan are fighters and their relationship morphed into something very believable even if I sometimes found myself giggling over Rose's effusive descriptions of Declan's rippling abs since it reminded me so much of Hugh Jackman's 'shower' in Australia. Other than that, Rose is smart and knows how to take care of those she loves which totally rocks in my book. To be honest, I'm not really sure where Ilona Andrews is planning on heading with the next installment, but my hopes firmly rest on a story for William, Declan's shape shifter army buddy. The man has Potential in spades.Can I talk about the cover a moment here? If they had left off the Highland Warrior (he is SO not Declan) I would have totally dug it. Rose against the old truck with a rifle slung carelessly over her shoulder and magic swirling around? Super. But Mr. Piercing Gaze just ruins it for me. This was a fun book, but I'm not going to lie that the teaser for Magic Bleeds, the much anticipated fourth Kate Daniels book, had me squealing for joy. ( )

I purchased this book.

In the Kate Daniels urban fantasy series by husband and wife writing team “Ilona Andrews” sarcasm, action and things that go bump in the night rule, so I was eager to pick up another Andrews world to delve into.

In this world there is The Weird, where magic rules and beasts run rampant, The Broken, our world where magic is dead and guns run rampant, and The Edge, which sits between and has a little of both. Rose is a single mom, by courtesy of being the adult left to raise her two younger brothers after her mother died and her father abandoned them. She has just enough power to hold her own, but too much for the other residents of The Edge to feel comfortable with her (or ignore her). Like has happened many times before since her powers surfaced, one day a handsome, arrogant man shows up on her lawn demanding to have her as his bride ( )

This book is a fairly high-paced fantasy romp with a romantic plot alongside a "fight off all evil" plot.

And it works really nicely to be honest. It just... having read her other books, and being a couple of days away from finishing it, it's easy to spot the mix of characters from the Magic Bites series and how they've been sliced and blended into these characters.

Still fun, and if there's a follow-up I'll read it. ( )

Rose lives in a small area called the Edge. The Edge lies between two worlds. the Broken is like the world we know, there is no magic there but there are Wal Marts! The Weird is on the opposite side of the Edge. Its a land where magic flows freely. There are Dukes, Earls and Counts. Chariots drive themselves without horses! There is no electricity but hot water is plentiful. Citizens from the Broken can't enter the Weird and its on the off chance a denizen of the Weird can make it across the Edge's border into the Broken. Even if they can, they lose their magical abilities and its extremely painful. Rose has a lot better magic and magical control than most of the citizen in the Edge. She lives there because its where her family came from and now she is the guardian for her younger brothers Jack and Georgie. The magical ability and her mixed heritage make Rose a real asset if someone can kidnap or trick her into slavery or becoming a mistress in the Weird. So Rose is always on guard. She works as an office cleaner in the Broken and gives the boys the best life she can. Jack and Georgie have their own special abilities. Jack is a shapeshifter and the Wierd treats them as lower class citizens. Georgie can animate dead things. Unfortunately it drains him of some of his own life force. When a man from the Weird shows up on Rose's front lawn, she is definitely weary of him. He is a noble from the Weird and pompous to boot. He claims that he will stay with her until he can convince her to leave with him. Rose figures he wants her to be his mistress. Then some black magical hound-like creatures start ripping apart the citizen's of the Edge and Rose and Declan join forces to defeat these beings and find out who has unleashed them. Ilona Andrew's had me with her first novel in the Kate Daniels series. She has moved to quite possibly my favorite author with "On The Line". I've said it before, but it is so hard to stay original and refreshing in today's paranormal/urban fantasy market. I enjoy the genre even though it is highly saturated. Andrews has taken what we, as readers expect, and given us a healthy dose of what we enjoy mixed with surprises and ideas completely unlike what we've read before. If I were to pick Andrews two biggest strengths...a) She is not afraid to create completely new worlds and have them sit right alongside the world as we know or knew in the past. She mixes the strange and mystical qualities with what we recognize as the basest human qualities. And b) it is nearly impossible not to admire and respect her characters. These are people that we feel for and can cheer on wholeheartedly. Rose is a completely unique character and not to be confused with Kate Daniels, but both women work for what they have. They aren't all rich and beautiful. Life isn't fair to them, but they have character and grit to overcome what they can. They do what they do for themselves and they do what they can to protect the innocent. If you can't tell, I adored "On the Edge". I may even like it better than the Kate Daniel's books. Rush to read this book, and this author if you haven't yet. Discovering these books was a treasure. ( )

As a fan of the Kate Daniel series by Ilona Andrews, I was eager to read this. A different world from the Kate Daniel series, I did enjoy this, there was more romance arrived at too easily for my liking, I like the tension to stretch out over a couple of books but the characters are good, I like the boys Jack and George and hope that William gets a chance to be developed further in later books, but lets face it, Rose and Declan are no Kate and Curran ( )