Embrace the Night (Cassandra Palmer Series, Book 3) | Karen Chance

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	Embrace the Night (Cassandra Palmer Series, Book 3) Karen Chance Roc, 2008 - 400 pages average customer review:based on 39 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Cassandra Palmer may be the world's chief clairvoyant, but she's still magically bound to a master vampire. Only an ancient book called the Codex Merlini possesses the incantation to free Cassie-but harnessing its limitless power could endanger the world...

Best in Urban Fantasy Fiction

I love this series! In my opinion, it's the best in the genre. This book was action packed and exciting from the first word to the last, with a sparkling wit and a great plotline. I think my favorite thing in Chance's world are the characters. Books to me rise or fall on whether or not I connect with the characters, and hers just seem so real. This book gave a LOT of backstory on some of my faves, which made me very happy, and introduced some fun new ones as well. I especially liked Radella, the warrior Fae with attitude. The series just continues to build momentum, and I'm glad I'm along for the ride!

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Read This!!

If you haven't started reading this series yet, what the heck is stopping you??!! This has been the one of the best, most original and cohesive series in the last few years. Each of the three installments has delivered excellent story for the money and shows plenty of future promise. It reminds me of the early Anita Blake and Dark Hunter series before they lost the spark of ingenuity that lured in their first and most avid readers.

Chance's series has everything from vampires, the mob, ghosts, fairies, mages, magical tattoos, and famous historical personages all set amidst Vegas's seedy casinos. Trust me, try it and you'll ask for another!

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more please

This continues the Cassandra Palmer plot line rather nicely. I'm looking forward to the next book.

nice addition

Cassie is the next Pythia, leading clairvoyant, who has more groups and people out to kill her than you could keep count of. Luckily, she also has some pretty kick-a** friends to back her up. Her primary goal in this novel is to retrieve the Codex, which contains a spell that will hopefully break the geis that connects her to a very powerful master vampire. Not that she doesn't care for said vampire, it's just that she would prefer to not see him go insane by it. Unfortunately, the Codex also contains another very powerful spell that many groups would like to get their hands on and other groups would prefer NO ONE gets their hands on. Cassie's not sure who she can trust anymore and it is a race through time as well as against time to find, retrieve, and battle for the Codex.

Very action packed. Fans will like to know that many mysteries are solved in this one. Especially background information on both John Pritkin as well as Mircea. Mircea--yum! This one is a definite recommended read.

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Eventually rewarding, but it took effort to stay with the book

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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