Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780312949594
ISBN: 0312949596
Label: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 464
Publication Date: 2008-11-04
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Release Date: 2008-11-04
Studio: St. Martin's Paperbacks

Customer Rating:
Summary: Wonderful Series
Comment: I can't rate this book without giving praise to the entire series. This is the last book in the Magic Series, and I think this series is so worth reading. This was the first series I read by Cheyenne McCray, and the only reason I have stuck with her. This series shows what an inventive writer she is, and how great her books are! This series is a MUST not only for the romance readers, but for the readers of paranormal books as well.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: WAS GREAT
Comment: This book was a great book that showed a lot about the human spirit with a little magic

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Customer Rating:
Summary: The book is an interesting mix of magic and love story.
Comment: In the world of Dark Magic, San Francisco is under siege. Darkwolf was a witch, and apparently in the first book of this series, managed to gain the powers of an underworld god and goddess, and thus has become a duo-god of dark magical power. He creates deadly "blades" and "stormcutters" whose only duty is to kill whomever Darkwolf wants dead.

Those he wants dead include the paranormal police force headed by Jake Macgregor, and his allies the gray D'Anu witches, the Drow, the Dark Elves, and others from the Otherworlds.

In this book, a woman who has been a part of the fight with the gray D'Anu witches has been called back to her own world. She is Cassia, and she is not truly a witch. She is the Guardian in waiting, the daughter of the Guardian of the Otherworlds, and a Light Elf. Her grandmother is the Goddess Anu herself.

Cassia's heart is with her sisters of the gray D'Anu and especially with Jake. So when she finds she must mate with a pure blood elf in order to come into her full power, she is not happy about it. Neither is Jake, when he finds out. Turns out he's pining for her as much as she is for him.

So this novel is not just about the battle against Darkwolf, but also the struggle of Jake and Cassia to find a way to be together.

There's also a traitor among the allied groups fighting Darkwolf. This doesn't help the fight, and creates no end of conflict among the allies.

The book is an interesting mix of magic and love story. The only thing I found jarring was the blunt language about the sexual attractions of the characters. I'm no prude, but I found myself constantly being taken out of the story by the crudest terms you can use in reference to male and female sex organs.

Other than that one quibble, I found the story interesting and the characters fun to root for and against.

Reviewed at Bitten by Books Paranormal Fiction Review Site by Sarah B.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Could have been better.....but pretty decent read
Comment: This is the slowest paced book of the Magic Series. I sorta liked both main characters. At first, Cassiandra got on my nerves and Jake was cookie-cutter-alpha, nothing new. Dark Wolk's end was not at all pleasing for me. This nasty freak killed and destroyed thousands of people. He should have been drawn and quartered. And that traitorous hag witch. (name withheld to protect the non-finished). She should have been tortured. It was ok. I am ready to move on. At least this series knows when to end.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: fabulous finish to a great urban fantasy
Comment: Although accepted as an equal by the D'Anu witches and treated as a sister, Cassia has hidden her royal Elvin blood from everyone. However, her time of hiding is over as she must return to her elf realm as the daughter of the Great Guardian must become a Guardian. She understands her duty, but feels strongly she must help her friends in their upcoming battle against the new "God" warlock Darkwolf and knows she will miss the human MacGregor with all her heart.

San Francisco Police Department chief of Paranormal Special Forces Jake Macgregor is a bit taken aback that Cassia, whom he is attracted to, is not human, but he does not care though he knows anything between them is short lived. If his dice wins against the overwhelming odds, she must leave to fulfill her regal role as a Guardian; if they lose he does not want to think of the hell they will all be in. Still Darkwolf comes before their hearts.

This is excellent on two levels. Besides a fabulous finish to a great urban fantasy that sub-genre fans will relish as one of the best series over the past few years; the romance is the one, readers have been waiting to see how it plays out since almost the beginning. Master magician Cheyenne McCray brings it all together in a superb ending to her stupendous saga.

Harriet Klausner

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