What’s not to love about a dainty-looking 5’2″ woman, dressed in pyjamas, touting a pair of Sig Sauers and an assault shotgun, shooting bugs that explode into an icky mess? I loved the opening scene where Andrea wakes to find that one of her neighbours has been trapped by large killer bugs that rode the last magic wave into the world. I loved their instinctive territoriality, their uncontrollable jealousy, their spontaneous aggression, the joy they take in running in the forest and their matter-of-fact approach to killing those who threaten them. The relationship between Andrea and Raphael is refreshingly wild, so much less restrained and less angst-ridden than the whole Kate and Curran thing. The Bouda / Werehyena mindset is centre stage in this book. The good news is that it’s a full novel and not just a backstory originally penned for world-building and marketed to keep the author’s name in front of the public during the long wait for the next book in the series.
“Gunmetal Magic” takes place after “Magic Slays” but is focused on Andrea and Raphael rather that Kate and Curran (if you don’t know what I’m talking about, skip this review and go and read “Magic Bites” and the four novels that follow it, then come back here).
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