Buddy re read at Ilona Andrews Addicts 
 Kate Daniels is my favorite series ever. 
 I just love the world, the amazingly well-written characters, the fast paced action, all the mythological elements, the absolutely hilarious and sometimes positively silly dialogues, and of course Kate's snarkiness. 
 I love how information about Kate's real family and powers is only revealed in tids and bits throughout the whole series, and how IA's writing in general allows their readers to use their own brains. 
 In Magic bleeds, we get to see a more vulnerable side of Kate though for the first time ever (from what I remember, that means maybe not really) and that is mainly due to a somewhat (totally, very, absolutely - you get the idea) silly misunderstanding between Kate and Curran at the start of the book, caused by their absolute incompetence at using a 
 telephone to its full capacity, and partially due to Kate starting to question all the things her stepfather taught and preached her over the years to ensure her survival. 
 But fear not, there is more than enough fun action to compensate for all the teenager-in-love behaviour, and Kate faces an attack poodle, 
 Saiman, a powerful thousands of years old villain,... and much more. 
 Sadly, Derek and Jim were more in the background here, but you can't have everything in life. 
 Magic Bleeds Bonus: 
 Thanks to IA I now know that I am not the only person with a funny sense of direction in this world: 
 He stopped by a door. "She is in there. Can you find your way back by yourself?" 
 "I have an uncanny sense of direction." 
 He presented me with his Beast Lord face. 
 "Right. I'll have a compass, chalk, a ball of string, and rations for five days brought to you."