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Review of "Embrace the Night (Cassandra Palmer #3)" by Karen Chance
This reader's personal opinion, ©2012, all rights reserved, not to be quoted, clipped or used in any way by Google Play, amazon.com or other commercial booksellers*
This was a real mess. Okay, I still like the Cassie character and other characters in series and there were some new tidbits revealed. Author has yet to get a good balance for me on Cassie's ability to teleport/shift and time-travel; seems awfully deus ex machina or deus ex saboteur plot conveniences (in some cases literally "deus" or at least godlike beings) on when she can and cannot rather than any good worldbuilding rules.
For 90% of book was battle, battle, heated moments that went nowhere with different male leads in love triangle, battle, time/place shift or fail to, battle, battle, time/place shift or fail to ... rinse repeat.
Book actually made me tired from all the fights and doubts about who was or wasn't ally. About 90% into the kindle edition some interesting bits and plot moved forward with some resolution (honestly if had not been for a goodreads group team challenge and I had already read past halfway point this might have become a "did-not-finish" book for me).
It could just have been the kindle edition I was reading, but part of that last 10% was taken up by what read more like something in the Dorina series she wrote (Cassie and Micea weren't in it but Dorina was) -- possibly that was a sneak peek that failed to get labeled as such.
Because there were interesting bits, I like the characters, and will eventually continue series I did not give it a 1-star rating.
Admittedly, with my reading buddies all saying this third was the best in series and the one that hooked them -- I did have expectations. Okay, yes, at the end
(show spoiler); but, by that time I was really too tired of all the back and forth to give a flying fig.
Reading Progress from goodreads
| 11/05 | "Starting for this week's SOS Group Bookshelf BINGO team challenge. Gives our team another 4-in-a-row, is on the Dark Fantasy shelf/stamp and doesn't be a potential game ender for any of the teams" | |||
| 11/05 | 8.0% | "Action although taking a while running around catacombs after a "treasure"; I'm getting a bit leery of all the paranormal series where book 3 is touted as the one "to hook you" -- more of a how about the first book hooks you gal. Also not getting how come Pritkin supposed to be such a big deal. But, only 8% in so will see." | ||
| 11/06 | 25.0% | |||
| 11/06 | 38.0% | |||
| 11/06 | 47.0% | "This chick is real slow on the uptake despite lots of action, time travel, time travel paradoxes, ability to freeze time, ability to teleport…she doesn't exactly manage to do much with. Enough action and interesting things to keep going with series; but, really series could be shortened or made better as a graphic novel type of thing." | ||
| 11/06 | 52.0% | "Done for the night. This third in series touted as best is kinda tiresome. If doesn't get better, will not read further in series. Unlikely to giver her other series a try." | ||
| 11/07 | 67.0% | "Battles. More battles. More messing around moments, different guys. Battles. Battles. Tidbits of info. Battles. TeleportShift. Battles. No shift. Battles. Time travel shift. Battles. No time travel to fix. Battles. Time travel to fix. No time travel to fix. Interesting tidbit of info. Battles. Battles.…good grief, does this series ever go anywhere?" | ||
| 09/20 | marked as: | my-shelf-category-i | ||
| 09/20 | marked as: | i-rd | ||
| 10/20 | marked as: | read | ||
| 10/21 | marked as: | to-read | ||
| 11/04 | marked as: | shelved-as-read-avoid-or-to-read | ||
| 11/04 | marked as: | shelved-for-one-reason-or-another | ||
| 12/16 | marked as: | books-to-delete-after-move | ||
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Ratings scale used in absence of a booklikes suggested rating scale:
★★★★★ = All Time Favorite
★★★★½ = Extraordinary Book. Really Loved It.
★★★★☆ = Loved It.
★★★½☆ = Really Liked.
★★★☆☆ = Liked.
★★½☆☆ = Liked parts; parts only okay. Would read more by author.
★★☆☆☆ = Meh. Okay.
★½☆☆☆ = Disliked but kept me reading in hopes would get better.
★☆☆☆☆ = Loathed It. Possibly DNF and a torturous read.
½☆☆☆☆ = So vile was a DNF or should have been. Cannot imagine anyone liking. (Might also be just an "uploaded" word spew or collection that should not be dignified by calling itself a "published book." Or author should take remedial classes for language written in until basic concepts like using sentences sink in. Is author even old enough to sign a publishing contract or do they need a legal guardian to sign for them?)
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