Hunted by Magic – Jasmine Walt – 4*

Hunted by magic starts right where Bound by Magic ended.  Iannis is missing and the mages are in an uproar.  The mages don’t want Sunaya’s help finding Iannis.  Instead their bright idea is to arrest her and everyone they think might know/are in/have family in the resistance.  Literally almost everyone shifter/human is taken in by the mages.  Sunaya has to escape from town because she is enemy number one.  All she wants is to find him.  In the last book she exchanges what amounts to a soul stone.  A bit of her soul is put into a necklace that he wears and she has one from him.  Only the wearer can remove it.  This is something she was given and told not to tell anyone else because it is basically an exchange of rings for marriages.  Sunaya escapes town with the help of two friends and they track Iannis down with the necklace.  They find just the necklace and the mages who were with him.  They eventually track him down but he has been enchanted and she has to basically seduce him to force him to remember himself.  It was a little creepy.  The woman who enchanted him doesn’t take kindly to losing her powerful new husband and tries to kill Sunaya and Co.  They escape rescue the mages and then rush to the capital for the vote.  There is a lot that happens in this book.  There is problems in the capital and reasons they wanted Iannis out of the way.

This book was much better than the last one but I didn’t feel like there was much movement in the overarching story.  We are no closer to finding out who the big bad is.  Iannis has hinted at Sunaya’s family is but refuses to tell her anything.  It just seemed like one more plot thwarted by Sunaya and Iannis but let’s not tell you anything new.  Now I have to wait for the next book.