I loved this book. Even if I already loved the Kate Daniels series, I wasn't expected to appreciate it as much without Kate. Indeed, when I cheer for an heroine, I like to think she is the best in the book universe (I don't mean that she doesn't have any defaults but rather that I identify with her) and when I suddenly find myself in someone else head I find it perturbing, especially if we meet again the previous heroine. Here, I wasn't so disappointed, indeed I was even pleasantly surprised. Andrea end up having a voice quite similar to Kate even if they are still different characters. We find back the sarcasm, the cynicism and the quick repartees we are familiar with. 
 The plot was quite interesting, with as usual a query after a murder, dangerous enemies and artefacts and some bad gods. 
 We meet again some old friends: evidently Raphael plays a major part in this book, but we also see Doolittle, Jim, Curran, Kate and Roman, the Russian priest "to all that is dark and evil". Roman was quiet a pleasant surprise and we discover here some other facets of his personality. He too has a good sense of humour and of the ridiculous and I hope we will see more of him in the next book; he is after all Kate's cousin. 
 I was also pleasantly surprised by Andrea and Raphael's love story. After their quarrel, Andrea wants to excuse herself, but Raphael insults her by taking his new fiancee to her office. In front of this insult, she decides to make him pay and even when he assures her of his remorse and his love, she doesn't fall right away into his arms, she even envisages the possibility of responding to Roman advances ! I find it quiet refreshing that it doesn't end up at that but that there are still some problems to solve, it is one of the more realistic love story I read so far. As for their new courtship in the shapeshifter tradition, I found it even more hilarious than Kate and Curran's one. 
 At the end of this book, we can read Magic Gift, a short novella which explains what happen to Kate during the first half of the book. I was slightly frustrated as I had already read it and I want to know what happen next ... I think that it is better to read it before the book rather than after as what happen come to play in the second half of the book but is not explain in details. 
 In the end, this book was great despite my misgivings, I enjoyed it as much as the other in the series, it was full of humour and I can't wait to know what happen next.