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Cast in Shadow | 
 enlarge | Author: Michelle Sagara
Publisher: Luna Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 1312
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Pages: 512
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.1 x 1.5
ISBN: 0373802544
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780373802548
ASIN: 0373802544
Publication Date: July 18, 2008
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 Decent Concept, but in need of a good editor. August 30, 2008
Emma J. Clutterbuck (UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The characters in this book are interesting, the plot line is a fairly decent one and the author manages to create a fairly interesting world. And that's pretty much where the plus points end on this.
For one, the book is pretty badly written and in need of a good edit. As a reader, I should not have to reconstruct sentences within a book just to make sense of it. There are spelling mistakes and bad phrasing pretty much all the way through. Its difficult to understand what on earth is going on for most of the story as the author forgets that her world needs to be explained, causing confusion and several rereads of paragraphs just to try and understand what on earth is going on!
As well as this, the characters are shallow and don't seem to have much of a personality about them, with the exception of a few plot points. There is an entirely pointless part in the castle that I can imagine taking a while to act out, that occurs when the character is desperately searching for something on a TIME LIMIT. It makes very little sense and shows that the author is clearly not focused on her story.
Over all, I think this had veins of a good book in it, it just isn't ready to be published yet, another rewrite is in desperate need for this novel, which is a such a shame!
 really good May 20, 2008
CR (Belfast, N Ireland)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Michelle Sagara is always good to read and I have very much enjoyed the Elantra books. This was a good edition to the series and I am eagerly awaiting the next book. It will be interesting to see how the relationship between the heroine and Nightshade developes.
Ps her quartet starting with Into the Dark Lands is just brilliant.
 A fun fantasy read April 6, 2008
NicE (England)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I really enjoyed this book. It has some very interesting characters and a story line that just keeps you reading. Michelle Sagara's style is easy to access and has some witty dialogue. The story has a darker mysterious side which is not all resolved by the end of the book. Which means that there is lots to look forward to in next books in the series.
So, if you are looking for something that is as fully realised as Tolkien you may be disappointed.
But for a fun and enjoyable read that looks as if there is plenty of material for future stories this is a must read.
Extraordinary September 25, 2007
OliverD (Haxby, UK)
32 out of 34 found this review helpful
I have been buying quite a lot of authors that are new to me recently, and this is the pick of the bunch. A world as vividly imagined as Tolkien's, but the facts appear slowly; a desperately serious plot; an appealingly drawn and only too human heroine with a mystery in her past; supernatural evil that has been checked but not wholly eradicated by the end of this, the first of a series. I would recommend it to anyone interested in serious fantasy.
good but Im still not sure I understand July 30, 2007
JR
18 out of 20 found this review helpful
good read, interesting characters and a good plot but the explainations just dont go far enough. All the characters stop just before we get to the part that makes everything make sense. a bit frustrating but I couldnt put it down.
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