Karen Chance
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 307 pages Rating: 3.7 | 32168 Users | 1751 Reviews
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| Title | : | Touch the Dark (Cassandra Palmer #1) |
| Author | : | Karen Chance |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | 1st Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 307 pages |
| Published | : | June 28th 2007 by Michael Joseph (first published June 6th 2006) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Urban Fantasy. Paranormal. Vampires. Romance. Paranormal Romance. Magic |
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Cassandra Palmer can see the future and communicate with spirits-talents that make her attractive to the dead and the undead. The ghosts of the dead aren't usually dangerous; they just like to talk...a lot. The undead are another matter. Like any sensible girl, Cassie tries to avoid vampires. But when the bloodsucking Mafioso she escaped three years ago finds Cassie again with vengeance on his mind, she's forced to turn to the vampire Senate for protection. The undead senators won't help her for nothing, and Cassie finds herself working with one of their most powerful members, a dangerously seductive master vampire-and the price he demands may be more than Cassie is willing to pay...Be Specific About Books During Touch the Dark (Cassandra Palmer #1)
| Original Title: | Touch the Dark |
| ISBN: | 0451460936 (ISBN13: 9780451460936) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Cassandra Palmer #1, Cassandra Palmer World #1 |
| Characters: | Tomás Carreño, Cassandra Palmer, Tony Daniels, Louis-Cesare, Billy Joe, John Pritkin, Mircea Basarab |
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Ratings: 3.7 From 32168 Users | 1751 ReviewsWrite-Up Regarding Books Touch the Dark (Cassandra Palmer #1)
I was supposed to BR this in fall but got sidetracked. Oops!Touch the Dark is a fun PNR read. It revolves around Cassie the clairvoyant, who's brought up by and now on the run from vampire mafia. She lives with an uber-sexy roommate who shows up in her bed naked occasionally (but Cassie's somehow still a virgin? Romance novel logic...) and her ghost familiar, a cowboy hustler. The mafia locates Cassie at her job in a club (again, a virgin??) So she goes on the run.In terms of supernatural2.5 starsSometimes when you're chatting away on GR or lurking on someone's feed, you see character pairings mentioned all over the place. You know what I mean - Cat and Bones, Kate and Curran, Eve and Roarke etc. etc. In fact, that's what got me started on the Kate Daniels series, and that worked out really well for me. Cassie and Pritkin? Not so much.Touch the Dark is one big info-dump with a plot on the side. It was drowning in narrative with precious little dialogue to break things up. Every
I found this book SO FRUSTRATING, because I actually really liked the story. So after reading the first 40-50 pages of info dump, I thought--okay, NOW we'll get to a good story. But right when I thought I was getting into a story I could enjoy, the author would embark on another marathon of info dump!! Periodically, throughout this book, she would stop all forward action to explain backstory for 30-40 more pages.This is telling not showing and it KILLS a story. Karen Chance also introduced WAY
I am surprised by how much I liked this book. Usually, I'm turned off by non-stop action books. I don't like it when the heroine is fighting for her life in every single chapter - give the poor girl a break already! But even though this book fits that profile, I still enjoyed it - a lot!Basic plot: A clairvoyant young woman named Cassandra was raised in a powerful mafia-type vampire's household from the age of 4. In her teens, she figures out that the vampire (Tony) killed her parents to have
This is a really hard book to rate. It's very good, but at the same time, I had some serious issues reading it. Let's talk about some of my issues first (get the bad news out of the way first):1. It seemed very cramped. What I mean by this is, action scene would flow into action scene. It was hard to keep up and catch my breath. I needed a departure between these to get my bearings.2. I really think that there needed to be more dialogue. It would have flowed better. The narrative style was too
What can I say about Touch The Dark by Karen Chance? First of all there are vampires. Yes!Second of all, there is a heroine and a few sexy vamps around. Yes!Then there is Cleopatra, Draculas brother, Eustache Dauger, Rasputin, The Oracle, Raphael (Im pretty sure theyre referring to Raphael Sanzio da Urbino), Kit Marlowe, Jack the Ripper and whatever other historic celebrities that Chance can possibly dream up.Its almost like shes jumping up and down, waving her arms screaming, I know history
I knew I was in trouble as soon as I saw the obituary. The fact that it had my name on it was sort of a clue. In the beginning, the writing style seems to be dry and dense, no dialogues, only Cassie rambles on for endless pages. But dont let it warn you off. Because what she rambles on about is very important, containing essential facts about that really complex and believable fantasy world Ms. Chance has created. Cassies narration is descriptive: she is not only telling you the story of her
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