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| Original Title: | Cast in Shadow |
| ISBN: | 0373802544 (ISBN13: 9780373802548) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://michellesagara.com/books/cast-in-shadow/ |
| Series: | Chronicles of Elantra #1 |
| Characters: | Kaylin Neya, Severn, Tiamaris, Lord Nightshade |
Michelle Sagara
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 507 pages Rating: 3.79 | 15898 Users | 984 Reviews
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| Title | : | Cast in Shadow (Chronicles of Elantra #1) |
| Author | : | Michelle Sagara |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 507 pages |
| Published | : | July 1st 2005 by Luna |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Urban Fantasy. Magic. Dragons. Paranormal. Fiction |
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Seven years ago Kaylin fled the crime-riddled streets of Nightshade, knowing that something was after her. Children were being murdered — and all had the same odd markings that mysteriously appeared on her own skin... Since then, she's learned to read, she's learned to fight and she's become one of the vaunted Hawks who patrol and police the City of Elantra. Alongside the winged Aerians and immortal Barrani, she's made a place for herself, far from the mean streets of her birth. But children are once again dying, and a dark and familiar pattern is emerging, Kaylin is ordered back into Nightshade with a partner she knows she can't trust, a Dragon lord for a companion and a device to contain her powers — powers that no other human has. Her task is simple — find the killer, stop the murders... and survive the attentions of those who claim to be her allies!Rating Of Books Cast in Shadow (Chronicles of Elantra #1)
Ratings: 3.79 From 15898 Users | 984 ReviewsEvaluation Of Books Cast in Shadow (Chronicles of Elantra #1)
This is the way to get people hooked to a series from the very beginning! Incredible and complex world + strong but relatable main character = great series. Add humour, lively banter and myriad of interesting support characters to spice up things and you get the first instalment of the Chronicle of Elantra. This isn't your typical fantasy world. I'm not sure how to classify this: it has some elements of urban fantasy but at the same time it's too close to epic fantasy. Forget the usual suspectsI'm percolating my thoughts. RTC.
4/5; 4 stars; A-So, this series has been on my TBR for quite a while. It comes highly recommended by my GR friend Estara and a few others I follow. I was not disappointed. I like a story with a strong yet flawed heroine. I like dragons, magics, and mysterious powerful races of beings. This book has all that. I found it a bit tiresome how Kaylin acted and was treated by the various authority figures in her world but it wasn't enough to put me off the story. The main character in this book is only
98 pages in, I was wondering how I had convinced myself to read as far as I did. At least 3 times during the course of reading this, I checked to make sure that this was the first book in the series. Something just felt really incomplete about it, as if I were starting the story in the middle and didn't have all the information I needed for everything to make sense. If I were an editor, I would have required the author to have a prologue which shows us what happened to Kaylin 7 years ago and
I'm a sucker for stories where the protagonist has been unfairly coerced into something and has to make the best of it, but even that bias on my part doesn't save the muddle of this book.Kaylin is a Hawk, essentially a policeman, in the City of Elantra. She was an orphan in Nightshade, one of the worst areas of the huge city, but escaped her life there in a blur of violence and murder that saw her the only survivor out of dozens of dead children, all marked with the same strange writing that she
3.5 I loved the plot, really wanted to know more of several characters. I really enjoyed the parts of the book I read when I knew who was talking. That was the major problem, I did not know who was talking or what they were talking about more than a few times. I found myself just skimming through the muddle to get to an understandable section. I compare the premise and plot to one of my favorite series The Tarien Soul series-but the author lost me, for many pages and it did not seem to hurt the
Update:I just bought the audiobook and the narrator pronounces it differently.... my life is a river of disappointment----------------------------Like 75% of the reason I added this to my TBR is because the MC's name is Kaylin.
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