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Sweep with Me - Ilona Andrews

January 20, 2020.
Requested by Tammie.

Thanks!

Man, I'm a whole book behind in this series. If I can get that one done before this br I'd like to join in this one as well.

Diana Stormblessed wrote: "Man, I'm a whole book behind in this series. If I can get that one done before this br I'd like to join in this one as well."

I am too. I'm going to be squeezing it in.

In~

I loved the last one.

They've been making great progress based on their blog. Fingers crossed it releases this month as planned. I love Innkeeper!

I know a lot of people complained about Sweep of the Blade because it wasn't about Dina and Sean, but I adored Maud.

Yesssss. I loved everything about vampire society they are hilariously over the top I kept cackling it is possibly my favourite Ilona Andrews book.

I'm about 90% done with Sweep of the Blade so I'm def in for this one! And I might be the oddball but I like it better than the Dina books. Something about Dina rubs me the wrong way, but I really like Maud.

Sha wrote: "Yesssss. I loved everything about vampire society they are hilariously over the top I kept cackling it is possibly my favourite Ilona Andrews book."


They're such drama queens, I love it!

I'm starting Sweep of the Blade today. I'm excited to read it and Sweep With Me. Especially since the book I'm reading now is a drag.

So I started this before work this morning and finished it in one go! I loved every single minute! Here are my thoughts: (view spoiler)[

This series is one of my favourites and I've loved every book so far, this one didn't disappoint. It might even be my favourite.

I really wish they were longer, I would happily read a 1000 page book about Dina and co. That's my only complaint.

I loved her relationship with Sean in this one, I'm glad they're getting their happily ever after. After everything, they deserve it. I like how he's still his badass soldier self, even while settling into life as an innkeeper.

As usual, the residents of the Inn were delightful. Orro is one of my favourites and he was superb in this book. I laughed out loud a lot at his parts, I feel like I should now start randomly shouting 'Fire!' when I'm excited. I'm so glad he got to see his mentor at the end, it was so heartwarming. I wish I had Orro in my kitchen!

Her Grace was excellent, I love that she's currently playing the part of a gossipy old woman, obsessed with the neighbours and their drama. I forgot who she really was for a moment. I have a feeling that Caldenia is going to become important in later books. I think housing her for so long has to buy Dina a lot of good will. So hopefully, when she emerges from her seclusion, she'll remember Dina is a friend.

The actual plot of this one was fun. Dina handles a crisis really well. I adored her interactions with the chickens, so much!

I'm hoping the assembly will back off and give her the credit she deserves. She handles situations that would terrify other innkeepers and they need to cut her some slack. She deserves another star rating for her Inn at the very least. The assembly feel like bullies to me and I don't like it.

I love Dina's new friend. I like that she was human but became something else, it reminds me of Sean's journey, even though he's a werewolf . (speaking of, I freaking loved the part where he bit that assassin's head, great stuff.)

The battle was great but again, way too short, I want more! I enjoyed Sean just sitting behind his ridiculously large guns, blasting away.

Overall, I loved it, I want to reread the whole lot. (hide spoiler)]

Diana Stormblessed wrote: "I'm about 90% done with Sweep of the Blade so I'm def in for this one! And I might be the oddball but I like it better than the Dina books. Something about Dina rubs me the wrong way, but I really ..."

I'm enjoying Sweep of the Blade just as much as the other books. I love Maud and Helen, and Arland. When they finally get together it's going to be explosive. Oh, and the Twilight thing totally cracked me up!

Charlie wrote: "So I started this before work this morning and finished it in one go! I loved every single minute! Here are my thoughts:

This series is one of my favourites and I've loved every book so far, this..."

I should get to it tomorrow. Can't wait to read your spoilers.

One chapter in and I'm having fun already. (view spoiler)["Dina, we're going to host sixty-one space chickens."

I gave up. "Yes."

"And they're going to argue philosophy." (hide spoiler)]

Not sure when the audio is releasing, but there's a 20 minute sample on the blog...

https://ilona-andrews.com/happy-book-...

I think this means Natalie Naudus is replacing Renee Raudman going forward, for the Innkeeper Chronicles series... she did Maud's book, already...

I can't say much about the sample, since I can't speed it up, and it's way too slow for me to listen for more than a couple seconds, lol... at this point, 1x speed kinda feels condescending...

I checked Audible and it's not in their catalog yet even as "coming soon". You probably have a month or two wait Iain. I hope I'm wrong.

@Narilka this bit was excellent! (view spoiler)[ bloody space chickens! I don't know where IA get their ideas but I want to live in their head. (hide spoiler)]

@Tammie Helen is tiny and mighty, I think one day's she's gonna rule the vampires.

Narilka wrote: "I checked Audible and it's not in their catalog yet even as "coming soon". You probably have a month or two wait Iain. I hope I'm wrong."

It's not guaranteed to appear ahead of time... coming soon/pre-order are mostly shown for publisher-released audiobooks that are ready way ahead of time... audiobooks that basically release when ready get no warning... look at October Daye #13, Invisible Library #6, and System Apocalypse #6, from the past couple months as examples...

I agree we're probably looking at at least 3-5 weeks, tho... this book was literally written over the past month, on the web serial page, so even if Natalie started last week, there's still the Audible development pipeline to work through...

@Charlie I swear I could go chapter by chapter just picking favorite quotes :D

@Narilka me too! It's just so good!

Narilka wrote: "One chapter in and I'm having fun already..."

That made me laugh out loud. So many things in these books do!

I finished last night. That was a lot of fun. Too short though!! I want more Dina and Sean. Innkeeper is so imaginative with all the various aliens.

@Narilka the series could go on forever really, I'd be happy with 100 books, each one about a different species.

I'm loving this! (view spoiler)[ I love Orros's quest to make a crappy fast food burger, and his visit to the set of the cooking show. I love the chickens! And the ninjas sinking into the ground was so funny. That whole scenario with Peterson's men trying to enter the Inn premises is so funny. (hide spoiler)]

Tammie wrote: "I'm loving this! [spoilers removed]"

Agreed with all of this! The whole book is laugh out loud funny, I enjoyed every second of it. (view spoiler)[ The chickens, cooking show and the ninjas were highlights for me too. (hide spoiler)]

I finished last night and it end too soon! I wish it had been longer. I agree with everything you said in your spoiler Charlie.This has ended up being a favorite series of mine too.

It's been a crazy week so I only just finished yesterday. I really do love IAs humor. (view spoiler)[Sean wolf and the assassin's head were the best lol (hide spoiler)] A cute story but too short. I hope we hear more from Adira. (view spoiler)[I loved her sad, yet powerful character. (hide spoiler)]

@Diana I did too, I hope she visits Dina again.