I have been going through another bout of Kate & Curran withdrawals lately. Really, they're simply Ilona Andrews withdrawals because I just am ten different ways in love with the way they write a world. I know going in to expect to be amazed, delighted, and--above all and thank the high heavens-- entertained . Whether its shapeshifters and magic waves, overlapping dimensions and backwoods feuds, or futuristic assassins and genetically enhanced mafiosi--it is guaranteed to get my bibliophilic heart pumping and I can't tell you how much I look forward to each encounter. This is a good year because we get two full-length novels in two excellent worlds and, having already downed Magic Bleeds , I found myself looking ahead longingly to September and the release of Bayou Moon . And then it occurred to me that I'd never gotten around to reading Silent Blade , the novella published last year from Samhain . I'm not sure how it slipped past me, but I immediately purchased it...