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 ...