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| Original Title: | Touch the Dark |
| ISBN: | 0451460936 (ISBN13: 9780451460936) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Cassandra Palmer #1, Cassandra Palmer World #1 |
| Characters: | Tomás Carreño, Cassandra Palmer, Tony Daniels, Louis-Cesare, Billy Joe, John Pritkin, Mircea Basarab |
Karen Chance
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 307 pages Rating: 3.7 | 32168 Users | 1751 Reviews
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| Title | : | Touch the Dark (Cassandra Palmer #1) |
| Author | : | Karen Chance |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | 1st Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 307 pages |
| Published | : | June 28th 2007 by Michael Joseph (first published June 6th 2006) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Urban Fantasy. Paranormal. Vampires. Romance. Paranormal Romance. Magic |
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Cassandra Palmer can see the future and communicate with spirits-talents that make her attractive to the dead and the undead. The ghosts of the dead aren't usually dangerous; they just like to talk...a lot.The undead are another matter.
Like any sensible girl, Cassie tries to avoid vampires. But when the bloodsucking Mafioso she escaped three years ago finds Cassie again with vengeance on his mind, she's forced to turn to the vampire Senate for protection.
The undead senators won't help her for nothing, and Cassie finds herself working with one of their most powerful members, a dangerously seductive master vampire-and the price he demands may be more than Cassie is willing to pay...
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Ratings: 3.7 From 32168 Users | 1751 ReviewsAppraise Epithetical Books Touch the Dark (Cassandra Palmer #1)
3.75 stars. I had very low expectations for this book. The reviews for this book were all over the place, many people thought it had too much world building and info dumping in the beginning and others thought the beginning was choppy. This is obviously the first book in a series, it seems to suffer the first book urban fantasy syndrome but I still really enjoyed it. There is some info dumps and world building in the first 50 pages or so that is done outside of telling the story. It didntIf you've forgotten what the word 'torture' means please be my guest and start this book.So basically it's a urban fantasy novel with vampires, mages, shapeshifters, pixies and all the things that go bump in the night. A recipe that most fantasy lovers would drool over. So where did this book go wrong? Let me try and sum it up for you.Cassandra Palmer, the resident evil the protagonist is a clairvoyant and was raised by a vampire who killed her parents to own her. (Could you get any real?) So
3.5 starsI remember reading this book a few years ago and really liking it, but either I didn't have the next book or for some other reason, I forgot about it for a while. Rereading it now I kind of have bigger expectations. Not sure it's fair but that's just how it is. Our main titular character, Cassie is on the run from the vampire mobster Tony, who got to raise her by killing off her parents. Not a good dude, using her for her gifts as a clairevoyant. She got away from him and got him in
I knew I was in trouble as soon as I saw the obituary. The fact that it had my name on it was sort of a clue. In the beginning, the writing style seems to be dry and dense, no dialogues, only Cassie rambles on for endless pages. But dont let it warn you off. Because what she rambles on about is very important, containing essential facts about that really complex and believable fantasy world Ms. Chance has created. Cassies narration is descriptive: she is not only telling you the story of her
2.5 starsSometimes when you're chatting away on GR or lurking on someone's feed, you see character pairings mentioned all over the place. You know what I mean - Cat and Bones, Kate and Curran, Eve and Roarke etc. etc. In fact, that's what got me started on the Kate Daniels series, and that worked out really well for me. Cassie and Pritkin? Not so much.Touch the Dark is one big info-dump with a plot on the side. It was drowning in narrative with precious little dialogue to break things up. Every
I was supposed to BR this in fall but got sidetracked. Oops!Touch the Dark is a fun PNR read. It revolves around Cassie the clairvoyant, who's brought up by and now on the run from vampire mafia. She lives with an uber-sexy roommate who shows up in her bed naked occasionally (but Cassie's somehow still a virgin? Romance novel logic...) and her ghost familiar, a cowboy hustler. The mafia locates Cassie at her job in a club (again, a virgin??) So she goes on the run.In terms of supernatural
Quick reviewCover: Its okay. Rating NC-17 for sexiness of it all. Thumbs Up 2.5Overall: Not sure about this series.Characters: Good.Plot: Storyline was solid.Page Turner: I guess Series Cont.? At least through book 2. Recommend MaybeBook Boyfriend: TomasSUMMARY (50 word or less)I, personally, didnt really enjoy most of this book. There were moments but that is about it. The storyline was interesting, but she seems to be parodying Laurell Hamiltons Anita Blake series without good results. I
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