Magic Bites (Dramatized Adaptation)

Kate Daniels, Book 1

By: Ilona Andrews

Narrated by: full cast, Nora Sofyan, Michael Glenn, Steven Carpenter, Christopher Walker, Bradley Foster Smith, Robb Moreira, Mort Shelby, Rose Elizabeth Supan, Henry W. Kramer, Ken Jackson, Chris Davenport

Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins

Publisher's summary

Ilona Andrews invites you to experience the first novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series featuring the intriguing fantasy world of mercenary Kate Daniels…

When the magic is up, rogue mages cast their spells and monsters appear, while guns refuse to fire and cars fail to start. But then technology returns, and the magic recedes as unpredictably as it arose, leaving all kinds of paranormal problems in its wake.

Kate Daniels is a down-on-her-luck mercenary who makes her living cleaning up these magical problems. But when Kate’s guardian is murdered, her quest for justice draws her into a power struggle between two strong factions within Atlanta’s magic circles.

The Masters of the Dead, necromancers who can control vampires, and the Pack, a paramilitary clan of shapechangers, blame each other for a series of bizarre killings—and the death of Kate’s guardian may be part of the same mystery. Pressured by both sides to find the killer, Kate realizes she’s way out of her league—but she wouldn’t have it any other way...

©2007 Andrew Gordon and Ilona Gordon (P)2023 Graphic Audio LLC

Amazing!!!

I loved the audiobook, but this is even better!!! I can’t wait to listen to every single one!!!

I love the separate voices

all the different voices and personalities make everything so interesting. I am thoroughly enjoying this

background music is painful

The story is good. The lead narrator is good also. The others are muffled and sometimes seem to start talking before the narrator finishes.

The music... ugh... painful! Often I turn off the book just to get away from the music and the sound effects.

great version!

I really liked this adaptation. If you have already read the book, the only thing that may bother you is the pronunciation of names. This made me want to read the whole series again.

Absolutely AWESOME!!!!!

Don't get me wrong I like Renee Raudman. I've reread the entire series 5 times. However I LOVE the graphic audio version!! PLEASE do them all! I would love to rehear the stories with the new voices and the background sounds as well. I'm already imagining Kate meeting her aunt for the first time. I can't wait!!!!

Fun

This is my favorite urban fantasy series ever so to have it dramatized is a treat

Very good “Audio Play”, Kate and Curran are well voiced

The Kate Daniels series is one of my favorites, Book 1 introduces the series and many main characters it has a strong female protagonist, action, adventure, quest, fantasy romance, horror, murder mystery and slow burn between the love interests (over a few books). This is not the best book in the series, they get even more exciting, it is a great introduction. I listened to the entire series read by Renee so I was worried I wouldn’t like this graphic audio play but the voices are for the most part very well selected especially for Kate and Curran. Most fans of this series would enjoy this. GA really brings an already strong story to life. Nora who voices Kate is very good, spot on for how I imagined she sounded in my head. If they keep up the quality production and great characterization I will get all the Graphic audio books in this series.

I’m not wild about the sound effects

I may get book 2 and see how it goes, but the scripted audio format didn’t wow me. Part of this is because I preferred the original voicing of most of the characters as performed by Rene Raudman, especially for main character Kate. A bigger part of me was annoyed by the unnecessary and distracting sound effects. There’s a lot of Muzak playing in the background including a campy Batman-ish ditty played during what should be suspenseful fight scenes. There’s also a lot of grunts and yaks when characters are in pain that were overdone to the point of cringe.

To be fair, the traditional book 1 audiobook is not one of my favorites in the series, so the voicing may be a casualty of an okay opening book. And, I loved some of the voicing here, like for shifter doctor Doolittle or vampire navigator Gastec. Another plus is that scripted audio plays faster.

This also contains:
- a bonus chapter replaying the Kate-Curran meet-cute from Curran’s POV.
- the novella A Questionable Client, which is a part of the Dark and Stormy Knights Anthology
and tells the story of Kate meeting Saiman

Fun

It was enjoyable and fun to hear Graphic Audio’s adaptation of one of my favorite books. I also enjoyed all the different accents of the characters.

Fantastic

I've always loved the Katie Daniel's series. This added a new level to the story. Despite having reread the whole series multiple times, this was a first read of my favorite book. A senerio you can't ever experience until know.
The narration is on point, easy to get used to, and well done. I can't wait for the rest of them!
Also, at the very end is a sample of Half way in the Grave with Cat and Bones! I had no idea and now must buy those too!
Thank you from the BDH!