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The authors have tweaked the premise in order to give their story a semblance of originality.

In Magic Bites, Atlanta stands in for Butcher’s Chicago. The Andrews’ have such promise as a writing team, I really want them to better apply their own imaginations in creating fresh story concepts for future novels, rather than simply playing in someone else’s sandbox. But I’m the kind of guy who’s frustrated by pop-lit copycatting, especially when the writer in question has enough latent talent not to have needed to resort to it. Now that I think of it, there is probably a healthy contingent of readers out there who only want to read books that are exactly like the last dozen or so books they’ve read, and who will lap up Magic Bites like thirsty werewolves. But only readers who have not already sampled the many books on the racks that it enthusiastically strives to imitate will come away thinking that it offers anything beyond the average. Its storytelling is entirely competent, even exciting when it needs to be. Ilona Andrews, a pseudonymous moniker for the husband-and-wife writing duo of Andrew and Ilona Gordon, has added yet another title - surprise surprise, the launch of a series - to the increasingly popular, and derivative, urban fantasy/noir subgenre. Share book reviews and ratings with Thomas, and even join a book club on Goodreads.Ĭomplete the following sentence: If it looks like a Jim Butcher knockoff, flies like a Jim Butcher knockoff, and quacks like a Jim Butcher knockoff, then _.