To say I was excited when I realized exactly who this would center around is a massive understatement. I've long wanted a Derek book, and I've been 'shipping Derek and Julie, hard, for a very long time (since the metal rose). Now that I'm done - I tore through this on my (extended) lunch break today - I can definitely say that's the dead-honest truth. I went into this novella knowing very little, except that it had potentially world-changing events within its pages. It may cost Derek his life, but there are things for which even he would risk everything. Their search puts them against powers they never imagined and magic so old, it predates history. Soon Julie Olsen joins him and what begins as revenge turns into the race to save the city. When those close to him are murdered, he’ll stop at nothing to hunt their killer through magic-drenched Atlanta. Scarred, solitary, he is the lone wolf who separated from his pack. This is the moment my fangirl heart exploded and made me say a prayer that IA continues on with this Grey Wolf series.Įveryone is entitled to their own opinion, but for me: I love Julie and Derek together and I will ship that shit until the day IA stops writing.Derek Gaunt has no family and few friends. Yet when Derek gets lured in by the beautiful enchantress, something very unexpected happens She tells him “You belong to someone else.”, so he was able to defeat her. The duo comes across many obstacles and villains along the way, but my personal favorite (because I’m an extreme Odyssey fangirl) was the letavista, which essentially is a siren that lures men to their deaths. It becomes very apparent that Julie knows many secrets thanks to Roland.ĭerek and Julie go on a mission to avenge a family that was killed for a mysterious rock.

We also find out that Julie knows way more than Kat thinks she does. Many connections between those two concepts were made. You know, like how Hugh was Roland’s Herald. This book stars Derek (The Grey Wolf) and Julie, who has appointed herself with the title of Kate’s Herald.

This little book probably will make me go back and read all the other novellas that I’ve neglected. This was my first Kat Daniels novella and I was not disappointed. This was sixty pages that were packed full of amazing.

Magic stars by ilona andrews