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nicolerene's review against another edition
4.0
This is the 3rd installment in Karen Chance’s Cassandra Palmer series. It follows Cassie as the newly anointed “Pythia”, also known as the world’s most powerful clairvoyant, as she searches for a counter spell to a curse placed on her when she was a child. I won’t go any further into the plot in this book because without fully explaining the first two books, it would just be too confusing. It suffices to say that there are a lot of people working against Cassie in one way or another and she has trouble knowing who to trust.
As I mentioned above, these books are extremely intricate plots involving no less than thirty or so involved characters, with more appearing around every bend in Cassie’s confusing journey. This has been my chief complaint about these books since I started reading them.
That being said, I love the way the relationship between Cassie and Pritkin has developed as Cassie has chipped away at his defenses. Pritkin is a terribly complex character and Chance has been slowly peeling back his layers like a really stinky onion, complete with the watery eyes.
Chance writes male characters really well. She makes them sexy and tough, but with a vulnerability that only Cassie seems to bring out. Mircea is no exception. It is refreshing to read a book where there are two equally likely potential suitors, yet the love triangle is not overtly obvious.
Overall, this is another enjoyable read from Chance. I look forward to the next installment of the Cassie Palmer series.
As I mentioned above, these books are extremely intricate plots involving no less than thirty or so involved characters, with more appearing around every bend in Cassie’s confusing journey. This has been my chief complaint about these books since I started reading them.
That being said, I love the way the relationship between Cassie and Pritkin has developed as Cassie has chipped away at his defenses. Pritkin is a terribly complex character and Chance has been slowly peeling back his layers like a really stinky onion, complete with the watery eyes.
Chance writes male characters really well. She makes them sexy and tough, but with a vulnerability that only Cassie seems to bring out. Mircea is no exception. It is refreshing to read a book where there are two equally likely potential suitors, yet the love triangle is not overtly obvious.
Overall, this is another enjoyable read from Chance. I look forward to the next installment of the Cassie Palmer series.
aliceboule's review against another edition
3.0
This is one of those series that demanded to be read completely before I could review - and so this goes for the whole Cassandra Palmer series (up to book 4).
I was pleasantly suprised with Touch the Dark and Karen Chance's series. The summary sounded very similar to the hordes of vampire fiction existing in the bookstores, and I was a bit dubious at how it would turn out.
Well, turns out that I don't know what I am talking about because OBIVOUSLY the topic has not been overused -- Chance tweezed something out and it was, jaw stopping awesome.
Cassandra knows what she wants, how to get it, and will not stop until she has it -- freedom.
She never lets herself be walked all over by the reigning vampires and manages to buckle down and actually accomplish things. And within her jam packed schedule she still has time to laugh.
There was some over-crowding of history and names. And a little too much happened a way too small frame of time. At one point I thought the series was going to evolve into an anita blake book, but we were saved from that - barely. Don't get me wrong, I love me some anita blake, but one is enough.
Bref. I enjoyed reading this series. Will most definitely be reading the rest!
I was pleasantly suprised with Touch the Dark and Karen Chance's series. The summary sounded very similar to the hordes of vampire fiction existing in the bookstores, and I was a bit dubious at how it would turn out.
Well, turns out that I don't know what I am talking about because OBIVOUSLY the topic has not been overused -- Chance tweezed something out and it was, jaw stopping awesome.
Cassandra knows what she wants, how to get it, and will not stop until she has it -- freedom.
She never lets herself be walked all over by the reigning vampires and manages to buckle down and actually accomplish things. And within her jam packed schedule she still has time to laugh.
There was some over-crowding of history and names. And a little too much happened a way too small frame of time. At one point I thought the series was going to evolve into an anita blake book, but we were saved from that - barely. Don't get me wrong, I love me some anita blake, but one is enough.
Bref. I enjoyed reading this series. Will most definitely be reading the rest!
alikatson's review against another edition
4.0
3.5 stars. Each book has gotten better and I definitely have developed a strong liking for the grumpy wizard.
patchworkbunny's review against another edition
4.0
The first half was so-so but by the second half, I couldn't put it down. Cassie can be a bit of a dumb blonde at times but I think that adds to her likeability.
amym84's review against another edition
5.0
So far this is the best book in the series. It seems to me that Karen Chance really became more comfortable writing in this world. Some of the problems with the first book for me was all the time traveling back and forth and not really understanding it. But I think since Cassie herself has gotten more comfortable with it, the readers, by extension are more comfortable as well. Chance does a good job in this book of recapping events from the previous two books. This time all the time traveling didn't confuse me. It was done very well to weave it into the storylines of the previous books. I was impressed that Chance went back to basically the beginning to show us a scene from a different perspective. It makes everything fuller I think.
Ok well I need to talk about, of course, the love interests. There's been a lot of build up since the beginning of the series for Cassie and Mircea. With this book Pritkin is thrown more into the mix. He obviously began the series not being a big fan of Cassie's then last book he declares that he will support her as the new Pythia and train her. His loyalty is put in question a few times in this book, and I was glad to see they were unfounded. I was not as impressed with the furthuring of Cassie and Mircea's relationship. It's been built up so much that I think when it finally happened I didn't really care. Plus there was the fact that it seemed that Cassie was basically forced to it. She may have wanted to but she didn't necessarily want to at the moment. She needed to because of the geis. It will forever make me question her true feelings for him.
This series has continually gotten better with each book. I can't wait to continue the series then move on to the Dorina series. Until Then!
Ok well I need to talk about, of course, the love interests. There's been a lot of build up since the beginning of the series for Cassie and Mircea. With this book Pritkin is thrown more into the mix. He obviously began the series not being a big fan of Cassie's then last book he declares that he will support her as the new Pythia and train her. His loyalty is put in question a few times in this book, and I was glad to see they were unfounded. I was not as impressed with the furthuring of Cassie and Mircea's relationship. It's been built up so much that I think when it finally happened I didn't really care. Plus there was the fact that it seemed that Cassie was basically forced to it. She may have wanted to but she didn't necessarily want to at the moment. She needed to because of the geis. It will forever make me question her true feelings for him.
This series has continually gotten better with each book. I can't wait to continue the series then move on to the Dorina series. Until Then!
theduchess93's review against another edition
5.0
A treasure and a delight, as always. What a charmingly and comfortably trashy series.
cplumma3's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
snance's review against another edition
3.0
Sometimes I'm all confused with all the time traveling back to the same time--but I still like reading about Cassie, though she is starting to wear on me with all her reluctant hero stuff and not trying to learn to use her power.