great book oh WOW this book was great just glad what i got it when i got the 1st book and book 3 to read one after the other i could not put them down and now i am waiting for the next one they are full of action and you get thinking that you are really living as cassie if you get in to your books like me and can get the pictures in you head as you read. you really get in to it a great book and left me wanting more not looking for all her books
Four and a Half Stars I remember the first book in the Cassandra Palmer series finished on something of a cliffhanger and I admit here to only having a vague memory of Book 1 when I started Claimed by Shadow. I do remember having a problem with some infodumping in Touch the Dark (Bk1) and that Karen Chance is very good at writing first lines. The first line situation is still the same "Any day that starts off in a demon-filled bar in a casino designed to look like Hell isn't likely to turn out well." But the... more info
Not quite as good as the first, but still essential reading! Having been enthralled by the book previous to this, Touch the Dark, I dove straight into this one when I finished it. And I'm very glad I did. It was definitely better to read the two books back-to-back as the plot is complicated in places. I think Claimed by Shadow will be much easier to follow when the first book is still fresh in your mind. Anyway, onto the action. We left Cassie Palmer as heir to the role of Pythia - an immensely powerful magical being whose job it is to travel back and forth in... more info
Slightly Disapointed - Touch the Dark was better Did not live up to expectations. The ending was not good. What happened to Tomas in the end? Maybe I skipped more than I should have. I was hoping Mircae was going to perform the ritual. After all it was Tomas who did it under not so special circumstances. The title should read Claimed by the shadowS. However, sadly, i think i will continue to reading further series for Mircea character.
