On The Edge wastes no time sucking readers straight into Rose’s strange world. Most of the story takes place in the Edge and while the world has no shortage of magical creatures and magic users there don’t appear to be any vampires in this world. If they stay in the Broken too long and they can lose their magical abilities and end up stuck there, unable to leave again. Some of them, like Rose the story’s heroine, work in the Broken while they live in the Edge. The Edge has its own inhabitants who have adapted to living in a place that’s not fully magical but isn’t exactly normal either. The Edge is a place where the Weird, a full-on fantasy realm, and the Broken (our real world) meet. While all of Ilona Andrews’ writing sits well at the fantasy end of the urban fantasy setting spectrum this new world has an even greater fantasy realm feeling to it. On The Edge is set in a different world to the Kate Daniels books. Ilona Andrews is well known for her popular Kate Daniels urban fantasy series and established fans of the Kate Daniels books shouldn’t be disappointed with On The Edge since it contains the author’s trademark original fantasy world building, well realised characters and top quality dialogue.

On The Edge is the first book in The Edge urban fantasy romance series by Ilona Andrews. Then Declan Camarine, a blueblood noble straight out of the deepest part of the Weird, comes into her life, determined to have her (and her power).īut when a terrible danger invades the Edge from the Weird, a flood of creatures hungry for magic, Declan and Rose must work together to destroy them – or they’ll devour the Edge and everyone in it… The Review

But things didn’t turn out how she planned, and now she works a minimum wage, off the books job in the Broken just to survive. Rose thought if she practiced her magic, she could build a better life for herself. Only Edgers like Rose can easily travel from one world to the next, but they never truly belong in either. Rose Drayton lives on the Edge, between the world of the Broken (where people drive cars, shop at Wal-Mart, and magic is a fairy tale) and the Weird (where blueblood aristocrats rule, changelings roam, and the strength of your magic can change your destiny).

Published 2009 310 pages Summary (from the book jacket)

On the Edge by Ilona Andrews