{"id":362,"date":"2007-03-23T03:28:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-23T07:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scriniary.smallinfinity.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/23\/2-cast-in-courtlight-michelle-sagara\/"},"modified":"2007-03-23T03:28:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-23T07:28:00","slug":"2-cast-in-courtlight-michelle-sagara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/23\/2-cast-in-courtlight-michelle-sagara\/","title":{"rendered":"Cast in Courtlight, Michelle Sagara (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cast in Courtlight<\/i><\/a> was *really good*.<\/p>\n

I missed a lot, I know, because I have not read the previous book, Cast in Shadow<\/i><\/a>. I bought Courtlight<\/i> without realizing it was the second in the series, and it took me a while to pick it up because of that, but it wasn't a problem. I had no idea what was going on with either Lord Nightshade or Severn, but that just added to the fun. (Though I'll probably reread it after I read the first one. Reading the summary of the first on Amazon just now already cleared up a few things.)<\/p>\n

Sagara did a wonderful job with the setting and world in this book. Every few pages, I'd stop to mutter, “That's so cool!” There's a very realistic sense of history, and the descriptions are clear without bogging down. I wish I had more of an idea of the size of the fiefs compared to the size of the city; maybe the first book will help. The Barrani are a very strange, alien but understandable, species.<\/p>\n

The only thing that bugged me in the book was Kaylin, the main character. I liked her, but she's one of those characters whom all the other characters love. She's always late, she's rude, she's willfully ignorant of anything that doesn't suit her interests — which seems like a poor survival skill — and yet everyone loves her.<\/p>\n

The secondary characters are great, however, and the plot was adequately twisty, and there's a lot of humor — nice sarcastic humor — and did I mention all the random cool bits?<\/p>\n

And lucky me, when I went to the bookstore to order Cast in Shadow<\/i> yesterday, it was sitting on the shelf. After I get a bit farther in I'll post something about my personal taste in beginnings of novels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cast in Courtlight was *really good*. I missed a lot, I know, because I have not read the previous book, Cast in Shadow. I bought Courtlight without realizing it was the second in the series, and it took me a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}