Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽'s Reviews > Fate's Edge

This third installment in Ilona Andrews' THE EDGE series may be the best one I've read yet! The Edge is a semi-magical border land that lies between two dimensions: a magical version of our world (the "Weird") and our normal world (what the Weird and Edgers call the "Broken" because their magical powers don't work here). Only a few people can cross over the magical borders in either direction, and Audrey Callahan is one of them.

Audrey is one of an Edge family of gifted and dedicated con artists, but she's trying to leave that life behind her and go straight, living in the Broken and working as a private investigator. Her magical talent: opening any lock, no matter how complex. When her grifter father begs her to do one last job with him and her no-good brother (NGB) so they can, once again, get NGB into rehab, she caves. Too bad the item she helps them steal has a lot of extremely dangerous killers after it ... as well as Kaldar Mar, a gifted con man himself, not to mention a thief and spy.

It's great fun to see Audrey and Kaldar clash with each other and burn for each other at the same time, while they're running elaborate cons in an effort to re-steal the item whose theft got Audrey's family into trouble in the first place. And I was delighted to see the young brothers George and Jack from the first book get some major on-the-page time here. The plot was gripping, and made excellent use of everyone's magical talents.