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Touch the Dark

Author: Karen Chance
Publisher: Michael Joseph Ltd
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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

19 reviews
Sales Rank: 667

Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.2 x 1.1

ISBN: 0451460936
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780451460936
ASIN: 0451460936

Publication Date: June 28, 2007
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A Must Read September 18, 2007
5 out of 8 found this review helpful

I cannot recommend highly enough both Touch the Dark and Claimed by Shadow. I've read both books twice and I can't get enough of the characters. Karen Chance has created such an amazing world that you become completely emersed. I stumbled on these books by complete accident and they have been the best read I've had in ages. Looking forward to (Book 3) Embrace the Dark (out next April).

5 out of 5 stars

Vampires, Spirits and Mages...Oh My! September 9, 2007
2 out of 4 found this review helpful

'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...'

LOVE it! 'Touch the Dark' is the first novel in a throat gripping, action packed series.
I love that Karen Chance writes this world as if the reader already has knowledge of it. Every turn leads to more supernatural creatures, spells and history. You learn more about the loveable Cassie with every page turn and are left wanting to know more.
This series is brilliant...More, more, more!!!

3 out of 5 stars

a bit rushed August 20, 2007
8 out of 10 found this review helpful

The book is good, a lot of time seems to be spent building up the story and the characters, so you get a good picture of them. However the story itself is just too quick. Half the book builds up the characters, a quarter builds the plot and then all of a sudden its finished with. So it is a good read if you are not expecting much of a explosive finish.

4 out of 5 stars

Good read, but not quite original August 9, 2007
7 out of 8 found this review helpful

...like some of the other reviewers already commented on.

It starts of in mysterie:Cassie, the main character recieves a fake obituary on her computer and realises it's time to run away - who from and why is not clear from the onset, or what she does for a living: she has two jobs, but the first one is never mentioned (which bothered me a bit, but maybe I'm just picky).
The story is set in this world, but with all the preternatural creatures in it + whiches and mages of whom the rest of the world don't have a clue about.

As the story develops, the world in which Cassie lives is explained bit by bit. If you want the readers to understand your world, you have to explain is and she does a good job, but sometimes there's a bit too much explaining, maybe she should have kept her world a little simpler of spread it out a bit in following books...

It is true that the story is not highly original. Vamps will be vamps, with all the power playing, backstabbing, betraying and sceming that go with that territory.
Some compared Cassie with Anita Blake. There are some points where they meet: powers they never asked for, do not want, have no controle over, and everyone wanting a piece of them because of this power. Being tempted by beautiful vampires and, though fooling around a little bit, not wanting to go all the way. This last bit of course only apllies to the Anita in the good old days, before she started sleeping with too many men to count...
Big difference: Cassie's not a big fan of violence dispite the fact that she grew up at a vampires court and saw it on a regular basis. You gotta love a girl who's willing to try diplomacy first, too many heroins go in with their guns blazing...

Some well know historical figures make there appearence as vampires: Dracula's brothers and Rasputin of whom one might expect this. Nice where the unexpected ones: Marlowe and Raffael.
Most vampire characters where well developed and it was good to know that at least in this world there are some truly ugly vampires, not all GQ models like in some books... There were some really good dialogue. Not as humourous as some vampire books but (to quote Laurell K Hamilton as Merry Gentry): a girl doesn't always need to laugh !

The book has an ending... of sorts... the last pages just scream sequel ! I haven't read the second one yet though... I hope it's as good as the first one, because I really liked it, read the whole thing in two days.

5 out of 5 stars

Really fun, original read July 30, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

I loved this book! I've read many fantasy/vampire tales, but none that were this original and just plain fun. The mystery was a real surprise, something unexpectedly substantial in what I initially thought would be a fairly basic plotline. The characters were fun and very unusual-I am embarrassed to say that I did not figure out the identity of one major character until the very end. And the sex scene was hysterical-anyone who can draw out foreplay over three chapters and actually make it work has my vote! I look forward to seeing much more from this author.