Author: Ilona Andrews
Series: Breach Wars (Book 1)
Publication: NYLA (August 10, 2025)
Description: We are at war. The interdimensional invasion brought us unimaginable suffering, but it also awoke talents slumbering deep within us, a means to repel and destroy our enemy. Every day new gates open, leading to breaches filled with monsters and valuable resources. If you are a Talent, your country needs you. The world needs you. Be the hero you were born to be.
Adaline is a Talent. Ten years ago, she had a happy marriage and a job she loved. The invasion shattered both. Now she works for the government, searching the breaches for magic metals and medicine to help Earth repel an interdimensional enemy. Two kids, one cat, bills, benefits, mortgage and school tuition...Risking her life became routine.
She had gone into the dimensional gates hundreds of times. She was always well protected. This time everything goes wrong. Now Ada is trapped in the labyrinth of alien caves unlike any other. Her only companion is a scared German Shepherd named Bear. Together they must uncover the breach's secrets and escape, because Ada promised her children that she will come home.
The future of humanity depends on it.
My Thoughts: Ilona Andrews begins a new urban fantasy series with a bang. Ada Moore is a Talent. Ten years after the first breach occurred she is a divorced mother of two and an Assessor. It is her job to go into these dimensional gates and determine if there are any items of value - minerals, plants, etc. - to retrieve before the gate is collapsed.
She's gone into hundreds of gates, but this time things go wrong. When aliens appear, chasing still another alien, she is abandoned by the man whose job it is to get her out safe. The alien who was being chased gifts her with a jewel that sinks into her head before dying.
Ada and her only companion - a German shepherd - have to find a way to survive and get out of the breach. She promised her kids that she wouldn't die. Luckily, the alien's gift gives her knowledge and other surprises that help her make it back home, but not before she meets other aliens and learns about the purpose of these breaches.
Meanwhile, the leader of the guild that was running this exploration is determined to bring the bodies back and seal the breach.
This was a great story with intriguing world building. I look forward to reading more in the series.
I bought this one August 12, 2025. You can buy your copy here.
I bought this one August 12, 2025. You can buy your copy here.









