I find writing about books late in a series, or towards the
end to be quite difficult. How much can I say about characters and not give
early stuff away? If two characters are falling in love the first four books
and get finally married, can I say that? Should I operate under the assumption
of anyone reading the reviews for these books have read the previous books as
well? So many conflicting thoughts.
If you were to break down the Kate Daniels series into a set of subplots, you would have action,
romance, supernatural, lurking doom, and magic. As you might have guessed, all
of these are slowly ramping up as the series heads for its climatic finish. There
is more action as it takes larger and deadlier things to scare or even
challenge the combination that is Kate and Curran. Especially as Kate learns
how to control her father’s blood magic. The supernatural and lurking doom
elements have shot through the roof especially with the reappearance of Roland.
And finally the romance, which has thankfully stayed about the same. I am not
sure I be able to like this series if we hit Sherrilyn Kenyon levels of
romance.
All of this makes for a great addition to an already great
series. I would certainly recommend this series to anyone who likes
supernatural dystopian fiction, but wants to pass on heavy handed romance.
Similar reading would include Patricia Briggs Alpha and Omega novels or her Mercedes
Thompson series, 
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