Magic Slays (Dramatized Adaptation)

Kate Daniels, Book 5

By: Ilona Andrews

Narrated by: full cast, Chris Davenport, Ken Jackson, Ryan Haugen, Nora Sofyan, Michael Glenn, Emlyn McFarland, Kelly Baskin, Robb Moreira, Triya Leong, Anthony Palmini, Karen Novack

Kate Daniels may have quit the Order of Knights of Merciful Aid, but she’s still knee-deep in paranormal problems. Or she would be if she could get someone to hire her. Starting her own business has been more challenging than she thought it would be—now that the Order is disparaging her good name. Plus, many potential clients are afraid of getting on the bad side of the Beast Lord, who just happens to be Kate’s mate.

So when Atlanta’s premier Master of the Dead calls to ask for help with a vampire on the loose, Kate leaps at the chance of some paying work. But it turns out that this is not an isolated incident, and Kate needs to get to the bottom of it—fast, or the city and everyone dear to her may pay the ultimate price...

This dramatized audiobook also includes 1 short story: Magic Tests.

Performed by Nora Sofyan, Michael Glenn, Emlyn McFarland, Kelly Baskin, Robb Moreira, Triya Leong, Anthony Palmini, Karen Novack, Chris Davenport, Ken Jackson, Ryan Haugen, Christopher Walker, Rayner Gabriel, Jeri J. Marshall, Troy Allan, Alejandro Ruiz, Tony Penny, Amanda Forstrom, KenYatta Rogers, David Cui Cui, Marni Penning, Yasmin Tuazon, Eric Messner, Elena Anderson, K'lai Rivera, Bradley Foster Smith, Wayne LeGette, Mike Ciporkin, Taylor Coan, Christopher Williams, Sam Intrater, Andrew James Spooner, Mike Carnes, Michael John Casey, Stephon Walker, Jon Vertullo, Wyn Delano, Nhea Durousseau, Dawn Ursula, James Konicek, Richard Rohan, and Matthew Pauli.

©2011 Ilona Andrews (P)2024 Graphic Audio LLC

main narrator sick

I love this series. I've listened several times to the non-dramarized version. i think the dramatized is fun, but was very distracted when a good chunk of the book I could tell the voice for Kate was really stuffy and sounded off.

Story, Performance! Everything ❤️

I have read this series countless times and I absolutely adore it! The graphic audio version is simply amazing. I love the voices and the narration by Nora Sofyan. Michael Glenn as Curran is perfect in his role. I can't wait for the rest of the series to be released soon!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Great

As always a great performance. This really is my favorite way to listen to these types of books.

Not as good as regular audio

Lately I have been enjoying the graphic audio books. this one was distracting because of Roman. Renee Raudman's version is better. I was looking forward to him.

Amazing!!

The story is great. The narration is great. This audiobook is amazing! This book has fantastic world building, character development, and plot. There is action, romance, and lots of witty dialogue.

This story is a continuation of the Kate Daniels series. So no major spoilers- you should read the whole series! Actually you should read everything written by Ilona Andrews because they have a gift for creating characters I want to know and worlds that I want to live in.
Kate and Curran continue to navigate being a couple, plus all of the challenges they face because of who each is individually. I was happy to see favorite old side characters and meet new ones.

The narration is fantastic! I am somewhat obsessed with the Graphic Audio productions. But the narrators themselves are so talented! The only downside to multicast narration is that have to work harder to figure out the names of the narrators so I can find other audiobooks they have narrated.

Highly recommend!!

Great version, no chapters

I love the Graphic Audio performances of the Kate Daniels series but this one doesn't have chapters available on Audible, which makes it difficult to navigate. The other books in the series have it so I'm thinking it's a technical error.
Otherwise I'm super happy with this book and the format of a full cast with sound effects and music has ruined me for traditional audiobooks. Plus I love this series.

Slow burn and kind of depressing until last 2 hrs

Given the huge cast, I like the graphic audio version better than the traditional, single narrator version. The graphic audio cuts 4 hours in length, another plus. The only little issue I had was in the way several of the narrators pronounced ‘volve’ as if it was ‘wolv’ which was hard to separate from ‘wolf’…and for a series with wolves and werewolves, the addition of volves got very confusing.

“Yup, Atlanta was burning. again.”
Prior to this book, we got to know Kate, the Pack, and the Vampire Navigators. Book 5 exponentially expands the Kate Daniels world. It adds several new groups, chief among them the witches and volves. We also delve into some of the were-groups, like the rats and the baudas (more Aunt Bea and the introduction of Ascanio). Finally, we get more backstory about Kate’s past, which gets darker in ways that made me ache for her. This world building meant the story tended to drag a bit, detouring often into series spanning plot or character development, or downer topics like Andrea’s break with the Order or Kate’s family betrayals. Boo.

The book’s main story is about an anti-magic conspiracy threat. The plot riffs on modern day themes of fanaticism and terrorism. Here too, the plot is a downer, where many innocents suffer and we see the horrible things humans do to each other out of sheer stupidity.

As much as I enjoy the interplay of familiar characters, all that groundwork and darkness numbed me.
I was relieved when the pieces came together and The Conclave joined forces to face down Armageddon. The Base attack, and the contributions of each group’s special fighting skills, were thrilling. The climactic battle was phenomenal. This book is also an important one for the series arc, so even though it wasn’t as fast paced or fun as I prefer, it was still a solid story.
And it has one of my all time favorite lines: “This … is the hand that slapped Aunt Bea!”

Love this series.

It’s hard to wait for the entire dramatized series to come out. I have the OG version and have listened to it several times. I look forward to the next dramatized version of this series as OG narration and the dramatized versions are excellent. This does give you a great mental picture of how characters look just by how they sound. To date I enjoy all the dramatizes books that I have listened too. Worth a credit, even when I have the whole series already with a different narration.

EXCELLENT

This one was really good - I can’t wait for the next one - the voices, animal noises and sound effects really bring this book to life!

WHY NO CHAPTERS?

The inability to easily navigate the chapters was off-putting. I ended up returning the title. Other than Roman's voice, the acting was fine. As always, the story was great; well-written and entertaining.