Hidden Legacy, Ilona Andrews, reread
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walkitout#28, #29, #30
I think the order is _Burn for Me_, _White Hot_ and _Wildfire_, but I persistently confuse the titles of the second and third.
Anyway. I think this is read #3 for the first 1 or 2, but may only be read #2 on the third one. I’ve honestly forgotten. After rereading _Iron and Magic_, I got to thinking a little about the Hidden Legacy series and decided to go revisit it (I really didn’t want to take on a reread of the whole Kate Daniels series, because while I had a lot of time to read this week and stay up to late, I didn’t have _that_ much time).
It holds up pretty well, factoring in observations I have made before (probably about this series): you can really tell to within 1-3 years when a book written in the last 20+ years was written / published, based on what people do (and do not do) with their cell phones.
I’ve been thinking a lot specifically about Linus Duncan and his role in the whole conspiracy. At the time, when the series was coming out, I really felt like he lacked plausibility. What was his motivation in this whole thing? He already had so much power and influence. But he makes a lot of sense to me _now_. And that makes me sad.
The other major thing I noticed this time around, that never really percolated through on previous reads, was
HEY SERIOUSLY SPOILERS GO AWAY ALREADY!
Victoria Tremaine telling Nevada that she had _expected_ James to not have any powers, and all the bad treatment she dished out to him was an effort to teach him some “hard truths”. All well and good. But why, then, did James have, not only children, but _three_ children, enough to show _all_ of what he was a carrier of? Also, did James tell Mom? Did Grandma Frida know? All these people are supposedly “normal” and not “thinking like Primes”, but _someone_, at a minimum James, decided to follow through on Creepy Victoria’s breeding program. WTF?
I still don’t get why Connor thinks Nevada and him are such a bad match. They both have will based powers; they’ll get _something_.
I think the order is _Burn for Me_, _White Hot_ and _Wildfire_, but I persistently confuse the titles of the second and third.
Anyway. I think this is read #3 for the first 1 or 2, but may only be read #2 on the third one. I’ve honestly forgotten. After rereading _Iron and Magic_, I got to thinking a little about the Hidden Legacy series and decided to go revisit it (I really didn’t want to take on a reread of the whole Kate Daniels series, because while I had a lot of time to read this week and stay up to late, I didn’t have _that_ much time).
It holds up pretty well, factoring in observations I have made before (probably about this series): you can really tell to within 1-3 years when a book written in the last 20+ years was written / published, based on what people do (and do not do) with their cell phones.
I’ve been thinking a lot specifically about Linus Duncan and his role in the whole conspiracy. At the time, when the series was coming out, I really felt like he lacked plausibility. What was his motivation in this whole thing? He already had so much power and influence. But he makes a lot of sense to me _now_. And that makes me sad.
The other major thing I noticed this time around, that never really percolated through on previous reads, was
HEY SERIOUSLY SPOILERS GO AWAY ALREADY!
Victoria Tremaine telling Nevada that she had _expected_ James to not have any powers, and all the bad treatment she dished out to him was an effort to teach him some “hard truths”. All well and good. But why, then, did James have, not only children, but _three_ children, enough to show _all_ of what he was a carrier of? Also, did James tell Mom? Did Grandma Frida know? All these people are supposedly “normal” and not “thinking like Primes”, but _someone_, at a minimum James, decided to follow through on Creepy Victoria’s breeding program. WTF?
I still don’t get why Connor thinks Nevada and him are such a bad match. They both have will based powers; they’ll get _something_.