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| Author: Karen Chance
Publisher: ROC
Category: Book
New (23) Used (7) from £2.47
Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 3591
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 374
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 0451461525
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780451461520
ASIN: 0451461525
Publication Date: June 28, 2007
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 Claimed by Shadow- review by MelEagles May 8, 2007
34 out of 36 found this review helpful
This is the second in the Cassandra Palmer series and is as good as the first (Touch the Dark). If you enjoy Laurell K Hamilton, Christine Feehan and the like, you will enjoy these. It took me a while to get into it but once I did I just had to keep reading. Cassie is a great lead character- she is resourceful, with out knowing everything- she manages her way through all the bad stuff without suddenly getting extra magic powers right at the end-a flaw in Hamiltons work- both "Merry Gently" fairy books and "Anita Blake" vampire ones.
In this second look she is still trying to get out of perminantly becoming the "Pythia", the worlds cheif clairvoyant. She has to deal with the "hands off"/love spell that Mircea put on her when she was 11 that has now blown up in both their faces- they can't keep there hands off each other- and Cassie can't get together with anyone else as the spell burns anyone she gets to close too- like Pritkin, the Mage assisin whom she has formed an uneasy truce with while she searches for Tony (bad Vamp) and Myra (Would be evil-Pythia) to stop them from killing her or Mircea. A fun time travelling vampire/witch tale. I reccomend it to you- but only after you have read Touch The Dark first!
How long until the next one........??? April 24, 2007
37 out of 39 found this review helpful
I loved 'Touch the Dark' and have been dying for the next installment to arrive. Fortunately, it didn't disappoint!
The plot traces Cassie's journey from partial Pythia to the real deal, while acquiring some new problems in the form of a malfunctioning geis and a quest for a book of Merlin's spell - and she's still looking for her vampire nemesis, Tony. The ongoing war that pitches the Vampire Senate and the Silver Circle against Rasputin and the Black Circle is rumbling on, but is not central to developments.
The plot meshes beautifully with the previous novel, with little strands being picked up and developed.
The author's style is fluent and highly engaging. The book is written in the first person from Cassie's perspective and it works really well.
It's also extremely funny in places.
The descriptions in the book are wonderful. Scenes such as Dante's casino are vividly described, but so are the action scenes - and there are some real gems like Mac's tatoo parlour.
Most of the characters from the first book return and there are a few lovely new characters.
Cassie is a great lead character, with lots of personality and her conflicted feelings about her new powers and the motivations of those around her are nicely pitched. Her relationship options get a bit complex, with her getting intimate with one character, desperate to get in the same position with another and rather alarmed to discover another one apparently rather likes her. This is all well handled and the differing responses to each make sense.
Mircea returns and is still enticing although he doesn't have a lot to do apart from respond to the geis and help Cassie out.
We also get to meet Mac, a retired war mage. He's a lovely character and rather uniquely 'good' person in the book.
But the standing ovation has to be reserved for Pritkin. He is such a fantastic character - one of those that just spring up of the page with the force of their personality. He's as aggressive as ever, but occasionally shows some other facets to his personality. Most of my favourite bits of the book had him in.
I can't wait until the next installment.
Fabulously good April 3, 2007
26 out of 35 found this review helpful
The sequel to Touch the Dark and the story just keeps getting better and better. It's so good you will want to read it again and again and every time you do you discover another little detail you missed the first time. I reread Touch the Dark after reading this and it ties together a lot of things. You realise how brilliantly well thought-out the plotline is as it extends into the second book. The heroine is feisty and the chemistry with Pritkin makes you like them both even more. There is a lot of humour in this one, more so than the first book. It's also a more varied book with more events and different scenes happening, as the pace hots up to a satisfying conclusion at the end, though still leaving one very interested to find out what comes next.
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