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Embrace the Night (Cassandra Palmer) | 
 enlarge | Author: Karen Chance
Creator: Cynthia Holloway
Publisher: Tantor Media
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  42 reviews
Sales Rank: 999519
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Media: Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
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Dimensions (in): 6.4 x 5.4 x 1.1
ISBN: 1400108195
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781400108190
ASIN: 1400108195
Publication Date: November 1, 2008 (In 16 Days)
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Product Description
In this third entry in the popular Cassandra Palmer series, Cassie is forced to travel back in time to retrieve an ancient book of spells---although doing so could spell disaster for the world.
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 Best book of the three so far in this series! September 24, 2008
Non-stop action involving mages (magic), witches, vampires, casino life, time travel, Fairies, humor, love, intrigue....you get the picture. This was the best of the three so far and I can't wait until the fourth book is published. Karen Chance has turned into a very good author with an original story and memorable characters. There is a ghost that wasn't the best of gamblers in life (swam the Mississippi w/extra baggage attached to his feet), an acerbic white war mage sworn to serve/protect Cassie Palmer (now the Pythia, chief seer, of the world), vampires, a love spell/curse, court intrigue - you name it. I highly recommend this book and the whole series.
Great storyline September 19, 2008
Took a chance, no pun intended, on this author and loved it. Anxiously awaiting next book.
Embrace the Night by Karen Chance September 4, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have to say, Cassie Palmer really DID embrace the night in this latest book by Karen Chance. She does a lot of interesting things in this book that she would not have been willing or capable of doing in the first two books.
The book starts off a couple weeks after the last book ends but the action starts immediately with no review of what has happened in previous books. This can make the series a little difficult to read if you are not reading them one after the other or if you pick up the wrong one first.
Cassie is still trying to fit into her role as the new Pythia, the seer for the entire magical community, but she seems to have much better luck finally adapting to the position in this novel. At several points near the end she uses her position to justify her actions to some characters that would have been on her do-not-cross list in the previous books and they step aside for her. It's gratifying to see her make some progress in that arena.
Since the storyline does deal so heavily with finding the Codex Merlini in both time and space the action can get a little garbled but the plot is not so complex that you get lost, just complex enough for you to really think about aspects of it. Cassie is seeking out the Codex in order to reverse the geis that was placed on her (once) and Mircea (twice) to bind them together. Since this threatens Cassie's independence she's willing to go through quite a few hoops to get it removed. An emergency 'out' was built into the geis (sex with the originator - in this case Mircea - or with one of his chosen stand-ins) but Cassie tried that in the last book with Tomas and it didn't exactly work.
Along for the ride is Pritkin who, as a war mage, is sworn to protect the Pythia. Pritkin is the source of most of the confusing aspects of this book as several interesting factoids about his past come to light. First off, Pritkin is half incubus and his father, King of the Demons, would really like to kill the Pythia and nearly seduces Cassie twice to get the job done. The thing is that he looks almost exactly like Pritkin but more stylish so Cassie confuses them at first.
The other major thing is Pritkin IS Merlin and wrote the Codex way back in the day. This leads to a long series of time-jumping, confusion about a map to the Codex which interestingly enough somehow involves stripping, a lot of distrust and some almost paradoxical episodes. Pritkin has tried to remove the geis from Cassie and Mircea but since it got doubled on one end the spell warped and the standard removal spell just won't cut it.
Cassie finally figures out how to remove the geis but it involves having sex with a Mircea from two time periods. Some parts of that were quite confusing (is it a threesome if there are three bodies and only two lives?) and the rest was interesting and dramatic enough to make up for the confusing bits. Cassie still has several problems on the horizon but there's quite a bit more light at the end of this book than at the others. At least the geis is gone and Cassie is finally starting to assert some sway over others so she's not constantly running but standing up to protect as well.
This was my favorite of the books so far and I can't wait until the fourth book comes out.
 disorganized and jumbled September 3, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I only gave this a three star, because the story was so confusing.
It switched between time realms with no or little forewarning and really was a major confusion.
The basic story line is good, just confusing. took a long time to get to the point of the story.
Eventually rewarding, but it took effort to stay with the book August 30, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
If I didn't like some of the characters so much I would have given up on this book after about 10 pages. I have read the other books in this series, but it's been a while since reading the last installment. Don't start this book if you haven't read the other books first, and it is best to refresh your memory by scanning the book prior to this one. Most series writers give a small refresher as a prelude, but not here, so you really have to work from the very beginning to deal with the confusion.
I like fast paced adventure, but this read was frenetic and not well paced. It got frustrating in places because it bounced all over the place (time travel) with very little pay off for the characters or plot. Suddenly ley line travel is introduced in the series that all paranormal characters can and do use, but this is all new to Cassie even though she has been raised by and lived with paranormals all her life? Huh? I put this book down many times, and debated picking it back up after starting another book, but I did finish it. I was finally rewarded with a few character twists, and the resolution of the dilemma from the last book. The resolution was anti-climatic and provided another "huh?" moment.
Again, I like some of the characters in this series so will continue to follow the series using the library, but hopefully in continuing to build her fantasy world Chance will work on her writing style.
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