Clairvoyant Cassie Plamer has inherited new magical powers-including the ability to travel through time. But it’s a whole lot of responsibility she’d rather not have. Now she’s the most popular girl in town, as an assortment of vamps, fey, and mages try to convince, force, or seduce her-and her magic-over to their side. But one particular master vampire didn’t ask what Cassie wanted before … putting a claim on her. He had a spell cast that binds her to him, and now she doesn’t know if what she feels for him is real-or imagined…
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I always love new series and this is the start of a great one!
Audiobook review: Cassie Palmer finds herself battling numerous different assaults both physical and metaphysical in this non-stop action packed suspenseful story. It was very easy to be engrossed in this story. There is a small scene involving sexual violence. The narrator did a fantastic job with providing unique voices for each character and appropriate tone inflections for each scene!
“4 out of 5 stars, I’m finding that this series is addicting as soon as I put one book down I had to read the next one, especially with all of the cliffhangers that end the books. This one…”
Read more of this review and a TEASER here: https://frommetoyouvideophoto.blogspot.com/2010/10/feasted-on-cassandra-palmer-series-book_19.html
In book 2 we find Cassie in Hell. Wait, my mistake. She’s at an incubus staffed bar in Dante’s Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas — decorated to look like Hell — surrounded by the 3 Graeae sisters. With war mages coming at her from every direction the Graeae provide the perfect distraction for her to do what she does best…run. Because Cassie doesn’t have time to be killed by the people who are supposed to be protecting her. No, she has Tony, the heinous vampire who raised her, and Myra, the murderous rival for the Pythian power, to catch. Only they’re hiding out in Faery, an extremely dangerous place. She also has the little problem — ok, major problem — of the Pythian power pulling her back in time through the centuries to fix who knows what!
And this is where Cassie proves how smart she is. With her eyes wide open to all the possibilities, she teams up with Pritkin and his retired war mage buddy Mac. Sure they might kill her or turn her over to the Silver Circle. But the way the Circle is after her that may happen anyway. And who else is she gonna trust, the Senate (vampires)???
I love Mac. He is a fabulous character. He believes in Cassie when no one else does, even herself. He is also a magical tattoo artist which is pretty dang cool. We also get to re-meet some minor characters from book 1 while in Faery and Cassie has more problems added to her to-do list. That list is getting pretty long!
What I love about Ms Chance is that every piece of information has a purpose. It’s an Easter egg for later in the book or later in the series. The tiniest details come back around and prove important. Fabulous, intricate writing. And across two series with one timeline!!
If you haven’t read the Cassie Palmer and/or Dorina Basarab books you must start now!
TW: rape scene (spoiler alert, Cassie saves herself in the nick of time but the scene gets close enough to be traumatic. It is only a few paragraphs and easily skippable without losing important story pieces. Once the roots start ripping off her shorts jump forward 12 paragraphs to avoid.)
Book number 2. Second reading of this book. More adventures with Cassie and associates. Full of adventures, twists and turns. Laughs, seriousness, sadness and pulling your hair out crazy. It’s such a great book. I love the development of characters. A must read series.
These books are so much fun! The bickering and banter between characters and the main characters internal dialogue makes me giggle. A roller coaster ride of outrageous action.
While I enjoyed this book, it was quite busy and chaotic. Cassie just keep going from one extreme situation to another with a lot of shocking information on top of that.
Cassie is learning more about what being Pythia means and how her powers work. She still has A LOT to learn though. I like how she is trying her hardest to stay impartial between the Mages and Vampires.
I’m interested in seeing more of Pritkin. He is a very unique character with many layers.
Overall, a very interesting world and characters and I can’t wait to see what craziness Cassie gets into next.
Cassie is hiding out in Vegas. She’s on the run from any goons Tony sends as well as a wayward acolyte Myra. She’s keeping her things in a skating rink locker and stealing outrageous outfits from casino locker rooms to interrogate Casanova. He used to be Tony’s second in command and he might know how to get to him in Faerie. She has to get to Tony before he gets to her. She wants to take him down and she wants the paper weight that currently traps Cassie’s father’s ghost. She also does not want to be Pythia.
Then cruel, annoying Pritkin enters the scene. They may make it to Faerie together, but will they make it in one piece?
Claimed by Shadow is all around great. The warmages get a front seat in this novel rather than the vampires. We learn more about the magic within this world by following Pritkin around through the backhalf of the novel. We also get more action scenes, and Chance knows how to write a riveting action scene. Cassie speaks more in this one, I suspect because she’s out of the clutches of the vampires. She has more agency all around when she’s away from them. In fact, one of the main problems, the geis enchantment placed on Cassie, compounds the vampires’ rampant disregard for her agency.
I love Claimed by Shadow. I hope you love it too.
For Cassandra being the Pythia, it is not all that she has ever wanted. People are still trying to kill her and she hasn’t got a hang of her new powers yet. As if she didn’t need anything else she has found out that a master vampire has her under a geis – a magical claim preventing her completing the ritual for the Pythian powers.
Tired of evading vampires, Fey and mages that are trying to get control of her power she decides that she is done playing nice.
This story was even better than the first and I will definitely be looking for the next book. Cassie is everything you want in an heroine, she’s witty, powerful, and knows less about what is going on than we do. It is a wonderful book and you’ll enjoy learning about Cassie’s world as she travels through it.
This mature-adult adventure took nearly two months as bedtime reading as it was not compelling enough to keep me up long after bedtime.