She began writing novels as a hobby after graduating in biochemistry. She met her future husband Andrew Gordon while she was studying in West Carolina University in United States. Ilona basically belongs from Russia and moved to the United States when she was sixteen years old. The pair is has been top rated in the New York Times Bestselling Authors list for a number of times and are still holding the top position for their recent novel named ‘Magic Rises’. Ilona generally writes urban fantasy novels and is helped by her husband most of the times. But he resigned after a few years of service to help Ilona establish herself as a novelist. He was a top intelligence officer and was very qualified. Her husband Andrew served in the U.S Army as a communications sergeant.

Ilona Gordon uses the name Ilona Andrews as a pen name for writing all her novels.

Ilona Andrews actually stands for Ilona Gordon and her husband Andrews Gordon. The new tech didn’t progress the story at all so I started skimming through it every time the new magical spy equipment was described, it became tedious.Ilona Andrews is a husband-wife writer pair who are well known American writers and have written many noted novel series in their career. It felt a bit like a plot inconsistency- obviously the Weird would have developed their technology different than the Broken because they were able to depend on magic, but this is the first time in 3 books that we are seeing the technology that is SO different. I like the idea of 2 conmen who have to rely on their wits and abilities getting together, but it also introduced a lot of new “Hand” artifacts that appeared nowhere else in the first two books. We were bound to have some characters without a white flash, but after all the power-punching of the first 2 books this one felt a bit lackluster. I also love that we get to see how they’ve grown up and their interactions with Gaston - one of the best parts of this series is that even though they are standalone novels, we get to see earlier characters come into play and interact throughout the story.

The best part of this book is the return of Jack and George! Although they don’t have quite as many POV chapters as the first book, they are still some of my favorite characters to read. Unfortunately I was too influenced by William’s perspective of Kaldar in the second book, so I wasn’t too keen on following his own adventure. The third novel in this series follows the romantic and spy endeavors of Kaldar, Cerise’s cousin.

On the Edge by Ilona Andrews