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Cast In Sorrow (Luna) (2013)

by Michelle Sagara(Favorite Author)

4.14 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Paranormal Fantasy

publisher

Luna

series

Chronicles of Elantra

review 1: I was nervous going into reading this book. I'd really liked this series until the previous book. However, in the previous book I actually lost interest enough to stop reading in the middle. Given how much I'd like the other books, I decided to give Cast in Sorrow a chance. For about the first quarter I was excited - I was as interested in this book as I had been about the earlier book - I looking forward to having time to read and was tearing through the book. There were great interactions between Kaylin and Nightshade, Severn and Teela. However, past that quarter mark I started slowing down again. The action in the book started slowing down in favor of mysticism and strange dream-like journeys into places where the words on Kaylin took physical form and she had to ... moreperform vitally important tasks while at the same time working on pure instinct and not actually understanding what she was doing. Moving the action from the physical plane to the mystical and spending so much time trying to follow the things that Kaylin was doing without any understanding of why she was doing it or what she was even doing was difficult.Then I started realizing - this is book 9 - how has Kaylin changed over the books? There has been no improvement in her understanding of her strange abilities, no improvement in how people around her view her or interact with her. Even her best friends still treat her like a teenager who is unpredictable and likely to do something socially embarrassing or worse without warning. Though in fairness, she is. She hasn't grown up at all in terms of how she views and interacts with the world around her, so the world still treats her as an unstable teenager. I realized that I don't want to read a series that is starting to spend so much time no the character doing things with no understanding (and doesn't gain understanding while performing the tasks) and where the main character has managed to go 9 books without changing at all. As sad as it is for me to walk away, I'm done.
review 2: A fantasy set in a fascinating world filled with the backstory of multiple alien races, this book relies upon the reader being familiar with the setting and the characters -- it is very closely tied to the previous book in the series, and not standalone *at all*.I enjoy the series and the slowly revealed history of what's going on, but I get very frustrated at the lack of agency that the main character happens. She is a "Chosen", meaning she has magical runes on her skin, and is continually put into situations where runes are added or removed to resolve issues. But she is mortal, and can't understand the runes, so many situations seem like cutscenes where she "works on instinct" and happens to somehow do the right thing. This book doesn't break that pattern, unfortunately.I always feel like I like these books in spite of the writing; if you like the previous books, this is more of the same; and if you didn't, stay away. less

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