Rose Drayton lives in East Laporte with her two younger
brothers Jack and George, whom she is raising. She sends
them to school, goes to work herself for a cleaning
company, shops at Wal-Mart, and even has a seemingly nice
guy, William, who wants to date her. So why is Rose so
hesitant?
The Wood that Rose lives in is on the Edge, a place between
two realms. On one side you have the Broken, what some
would call normal reality, but Edgers see it as a place
with no magic. On the other side is the Weird, will
technology is replaced with magic. On one side you have an
air force flying fighter jets, on the other side they would
be flying a magical creature called a wyvern. On the Edge,
folks who live there are a mix of both worlds. None are
completely normal, nor are they full blooded magical
either. They live with one foot in each world, never
allowing the two to meet, never quite fitting in.
When blue-blooded aristocrat Lord Declan Camarine appears
in Rose's yard, she fears he is another suitor who has come
to claim her. Normally, the blue-bloods would have nothing
to do with Edgers, but Rose is special. Rose's magic
flashes bright white. This means her magic is extremely
powerful, and makes her a catch for any family blood line.
So ever since Rose first flashed white at sixteen, she has
had to fight off suitors as well as kidnappers. For all
she knows Lord Camarine with his perfect manners and
devastating good looks was no better.
Declan, however, has come to the Wood chasing a more deadly
quarry, one that might destroy not only the Edgers but all
magic. As he and Rose work together to stop the evil
threatening to destroy all they know, they come to find out
that they are not so different after all, and the spark of
attraction between the two may be just what the worlds need
to survive.
ON THE EDGE is the first in a new series by Ilona Andrews.
The world building is excellent, with well defined
boundaries between the realms and a perfect balancing act
in the Edge. Her characters are very distinct, such as
with the young boys, so much that you can't help but care
for them. I like how everyone has a hand in defeating the
evil; it's not completely up to the hero and heroine. I
look forward to the next book in this series.
The Broken is a place where people shop at Wal-Mart and magic is nothing more than a fairy tale.
The Weird is a realm where blueblood aristocrats rule and the strength of your magic can change your destiny.
Rose Drayton lives on the Edge, the place between both worlds. A perilous existence indeed, made even more so by a flood of magic-hungry creatures bent on absolute destruction.
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