I was hoping we'd get to the Leontines! There is so much to love about this series, especially the fact that Kaylin grows and changes with each book. It feels like there's definite narrative progression, rather than the reapplication of a formula to different circumstances that is the case with m...
Well I haven't written a review for any novel in this series yet but this time I have to. I really like these books. I like the characters, I like the setting, I like the stories. What I don't like is how unfinished every interaction with Nightshade is. It's maddening. The author hints at some g...
At time I don't even know why I am reading this book. I am frequently both frustrated and bored, by the endless repetition of character habits, the lack of development of those characters - after six books, have the dragon court still not accepted or acknowledged that Kaylin has much to offer whi...
I think this has been my favourite book in the series so far. Mainly because we got out of the city of Elantra, and with a different setting we actually got some variance in the story telling; in addition the middle section finally gave us some development in some key relationships - not enough, ...
Cast in Sorrow is the ninth book of the Elantra chronicles by Michelle Sagara.Kaylin has finally made out to the West March. Surprising she is still alive after everything she has gone threw to get there. Kaylin is the harmoniste, storyteller, of the regalia. She has been tasked with this by the ...
This one had less of a driving plot and more of a series of issues as Kaylin tried to go about a mostly-normal couple of days, but that's alright with me. This series, to me, is strongest when dealing with the relationships between characters, and this book gave us a chance to dig into some chara...
I didn't hate this book, but it wasn't like anything approaching good either; it was on the sliding into crap side of mediocre. Most of the time when I rate a book two stars, I didn't blazing hate it, but I strongly disliked it. Silence didn't really make me feel anything.The story is the tired o...
Oooo... a prequel starring a young Kaylin and giving us that piece of her early history at which other books only hinted. Okay, the history has been more and more fleshed out, but this early story is wonderful. I ached for Kaylin many a time as she found herself in very unfamiliar surroundings, d...
Somewhere in my review reading I was confused about Cast in Silence and Cast in Chaos, looking for a kiss and a hint of sexual abuse making Cast in chaos terribly long for me. But once I got past the kiss and the hint of abuse that I was sure would be in Cast in Silence, not only did it speed up ...
I have been reading Michelle Sagara's Cast series for a number of years, and always enjoy the binds that Corporal Kayla Neya gets herself into, and how she works the knots apart, or works magic, or earns new respect from the arrogant Barrani, her seargent Marcus, Severn her partner, or the numero...
ORIGINAL READ: 6/10 (5 December 2005 - 9 December 2005)I liked this book, despite the low rating I've given in. The main character is solidly developed and likeable, the secondary characters and varied and different (although I found Severn, the lead human male character, to be less well created ...
No good deed goes unpunished… In Elantra, a job well done is rewarded with a more dangerous task. And so, after defeating a dark evil, Kaylin must enter a place of deceit and treachery. A world where silk and jewels hide deadly secrets… Kaylin goes before the Barrani High Court, where a misspok...
It was pretty much the first short story that I ever attempted, although between its beginning and its completion, I wrote another which was published first (Birthnight.) There is something utterly appropriate about the subject matter; I was writing about a Genie, and I was spending much of my fr...
Not because of the commercialism. Hell, with my VCR and my laser disk player and my stereo sound system and car and you name it, I’m just as much a consumer as anyone else. And I didn’t hate the hypocrisy of it, at least not in the later years, because I understood it. I didn’t hate the religious...
When I decided I would reprint all of my short stories as individual ebooks, I also decided I would take the time—and space—to write introductions for each of the stories. But Birthnight had been reprinted once, in 2003, for a collection of first stories by various authors. So I already had an in...
Allison had been right about one thing: Touching Nathan was no different from touching any other dead person. It leeched heat out of her hands, numbing them. There were four ghosts chained to the two men who now approached. Two of them were women, one only slightly older t...
The Dragon Lords had not, in their haste to formally convene the Immortal Court—as Kaylin now thought of the impromptu meeting—given her any new instructions. Kaylin and Severn had no trouble leaving the Library, which was in any case conspicuously absent of people right up to the main doors. App...
Kaylin’s foot found solid ground as she turned; her hand still touched the cool surface of rock.Tiamaris looked at her, and then craned his neck, briefly, toward the height of the cliff, where the aeries could barely be seen from their vantage. “I do not think,” he said, with a very odd smile, “t...
Chris Szego, who manages the bookstore at which I stil work part-time (because it’s about the books), was hugely encouraging. And nagging. In about that order. So were hugely encouraging. And nagging. In about that order. So were Karina Sumner-Smith and Tanya Huff.
Cautiously, she looked around the room. She could see Mandoran, Annarion and her familiar; she could see walls, a bed and the very disturbing floor. She could not see Gilbert. The walls of the room hadn’t changed the way the floor had; the bed was s...