Magic Unleashed by K.M. SheaMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Satisfying Conclusion
I’d probably give this book 4.5 ⭐️ if I could.
This is the third book in a series and the previous two books need to be read in order to understand this book.
A lot happens in this last book of the trilogy. Hazel is now officially the Adept of House Medeis and the House itself has transformed itself to house the new Adept and enable her to take the House in the direction she wishes to. She wants her House to protect all supernaturals and to prevent the larger and more powerful groups of supernaturals from bullying and harming the smaller groups and individuals. She’s drawing on her training with House Drake to help train the other members of her House how to change their magic use to best effect in battle.
Killian is missing Hazel and the fun that she brought to House Drake, which the other vampires are also missing. He knows that he did the right thing in getting her to leave for her own protection but he really wants to find a way he can protect her and still have her in his life. When he finally works out that she doesn’t need protecting he has to find a way to gain her forgiveness.
From this introduction, it may seem that this is a romance but it’s only a small part of the book. In fact, this is a clean book as it’s such a slow burn the romance only happens at the very end of the book. What is more important to the book are the politics and the negotiating between Houses and species of supernatural. Alliances are made and battle lines are drawn. Strategy plays it’s part in the battles as does the fighting, but at heart, it’s all about negotiation and finding a path where different races of supernatural can learn to get along and how Hazel and Killian are at the front of this.
This book has lots of little twists in it so if you don’t know how things are going to end at the very least you don’t know how they get there. I love all the support characters in this series and they all get their chance to shine in this final book. They all play their part in getting everything accomplished, even Rupert the grumpy red-headed vampire!
This is a light and kind of nice urban fantasy, but it’s by no means sickly sweet. I love the world-building and the plot structure is great. If anything I would prefer a small piece of darkness but that’s just personal because I like a strong contrast between dark and light. Though there are bad guys, we don’t really focus on them and why they are so bad, they are just bad and they have to be defeated.
There are some things left unresolved at the end of this trilogy, but not in an obvious way, in fact, it took me a while to remember that there were a couple of loose endings that needed tying off, so it’s good that there is another series set in this world involving a tangential character from this series, which I really look forward to reading.
All in all, this was a very satisfactory conclusion to a well written and fun series.
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