![]() He’d been shot, cut, burned, broken, tortured, but this was different. Hugh stood at the window while it pierced him with needle teeth and shredded him, skinning one thin layer at a time. Playing with tropes of addiction, Andrews depicts Hugh’s severance from Roland’s power––the “void”––as a debilitating form of withdrawal: ![]() As the final conflict between Kate and Roland picks up steam in the background, we find Hugh getting wasted in taverns to cope with the loss of his magical connection with Roland, which has been his wind and sail since childhood. ![]() Iron and Magic is the story of what happens to Hugh d’Ambray, Roland’s cocky warlord, after he is banished from Roland’s army for failing to deliver Kate Daniels into his master’s creepy paternal clutches. And while Iron and Magicis a fun visit to one of my favorite fantasy destinations, it doesn’t pack the same punch as the Kate Daniels books. After falling in love with the Kate Daniels series back in 2016, I was excited to learn that Ilona Andrews had released the first installment of a spin-off trilogy set in the same world. ![]()
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