I'm going to start with a disclaimer - I like these lightweight supernatural romances. They're the junkfood of reading, but I still like them. And I can handle a fair amount of angst and should-I-shouldn't-I from the protagonist (I read the Anita Blake books by Laurell K Hamilton and I don't hate the protagonist). But this book.. no. Just - no.

I actually abandoned 'Magic Hunter' partway through because I disliked the main character so much. She's the worst kind of Twilight wannabe, whiny and self-important and pretty enough to apparently get away with no real character development. It's a shame, because the world behind the story looked really interesting and the love interest seemed plausibly intriguing. Even the antagonists seemed reasonable - a bit of anti-magic cultist action with white supremacist overtones and a certain level of Big Brother style media control has a lot of potential here. But for me, the protagonist was awful.

I would come back and try to read this again if it went through some heavy editing first to put a decent main character in place. ( )

Magic Hunter by C. N. Crawford and narrated by Laurel Schroeder is a good fantasy with the Guardians fighting the camps and mages. Our main goal who is a Guardian ends up being chased by her own people and saved by a mage. She then needs to find out why. Good story but I really got tired of the game's attitude. I really liked the mage through.
The narrator was ok, good reading of the book but not a great performance of the book. ( )

Except for Rosalind's multiple and ridiculously stupid choices, this is a wonderful start to an interesting series. Still plenty of questions that need answers so I'm looking forward to the next book. I focused completely on Caine and his mission and all the other varied characters in this world. I demoted Rosalind to simply an irritating side character. Works for me. ( )

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