Is Atlanta the only place battered by the magic waves?
No, the whole world is affected.
What caused the magic to start flooding the world?
I’ll let Kate explain, since I already wrote it once and I’m lazy: “Theory said that magic and tech used to coexist in a balance. Like the pendulum of a grandfather clock that barely moved, if at all. But then came the age of Man, and men are made of progress. They overdeveloped magic, pushing the pendulum further and further to one side until it came crashing down and started swinging back and forth, bringing with it tech waves.
And then in its turn, the technology oversaturated the world, helped once again by pesky Man, and the pendulum swung again, into the side of magic this time. The previous Shift from magic to tech took place somewhere around the start of the Iron age. The current Shift officially dawned almost thirty years ago. It began with a flare, and with each subsequent flare, more of our world succumbed to magic.”
What’s a flare?
Flare is a magic tsunami, a wave of terrible magnitude. It starts as a series of shallow magic fluctuations. During those short waves, the magic never completely falls, coming back stronger and stronger until it finally drowns the world in an enormous surge. Weird things happen during the flare. The magic lasts for three days straight and some really nasty critters come out of the woodwork. The upside to this whole mess is that after the flare, the magic takes a while to return. Weeks if not months.
Does it bother you that you ripped off a “flare” from Robert Jordan’s bubbles of evil on the Pattern in the Wheel of Time series? Because it bothers me.
Terms like Weird, Flare, dhampir and so on are routinely getting used by many authors. “Flare” is not a copy-righted term. There are very few similarities between Jordan’s world and ours, and you would know that if you bothered to read the books.
I have zero tolerance for trolls, especially ones that don’t leave their real names. I’ve logged your IP. If I see you again leaving some sort of skeevy reply, I’ll take out your vowels. Fair warning.
Yeah admin, you tell em! I’ve read both series’ and I am totally in agreement with you, completely different worlds.
Human nature though, if one person produces something interesting and good, there will be equal parts people loving the experience, and people trying to crap all over it.
I’ll never understand the ones who try to do the crapping, seems pointless to me, but each to their own I guess. Maybe bagging someone else’s work makes them feel better about not having the brains to create something themselves.
all authors, screen-writers, etc borrow ideas from other sources…its called inspiration! Ilona Andrews created a one-of-a-kind fantasy world that is both original & believable. I read constantly, especially in this type of genre, & i think IA has done a wonderful job! much better than u would be able to accomplish, in fact, so if u don’t have anything nice to say, don’t speak! nobody is forcing u to read her books, so if u have a problem, don’t read them anymore. shut-up, & let the rest of us enjoy her great work!
Are you going to go to other cities to find out what is happening there? I truly enjoy the stories and think that Kate and Company need to journey to other cities and battle Roland.
I love your books!! My boyfriend Tiyrecq picked one up at the library and when he finished it I read it and I WAS HOOKED!! I wrote a book myself and I’m working on the sequel…but I’m worried about publishing companies…any advice on knowing a scam company from a real? And I can’t wait for the rest of your books!!! Me and Tiyrecq keep saying how they should be made into movies (that would be GREAT!!)
Hi nicole. Try predatorsandeditors.com I, was told about it by a published author.
I’m also writing a book. Would you like to talk?
Hi i love your books. A friend of mine segested them after i had said i liked Jim Butchers the Dresden Files. I bring this up because I recently discovered that they have made a rpg based in the world of the dresden files and that got me thinking that your world would make a good rpg have you ever concidered working with wizards of the cost to make one. just a thought
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