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A brand new series from the author of the "Weather Warden" novels, who's as “Swift, sassy, and sexy as Laurell K. Hamilton.” (Mary Jo Putney)
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Once she was Cassiel, a Djinn of limitless power. Now, she has been reshaped in human flesh as punishment for defying her master—and living among the Weather Wardens, whose power she must tap into regularly or she will die. And as she copes with the emotions and frailties of her human condition, a malevolent entity threatens her new existence...About the Author
Rachel Caine is the author of more than twenty novels, including the "Weather Warden" series. She was born at White Sands Missile Range, which people who know her say explains a lot. She has been an accountant, a professional musician, and an insurance investigator, and still carries on a secret identity in the corporate world. She and her husband, fantasy artist R. Cat Conrad, live in Texas with their iguanas, Popeye and Darwin; a mali uromastyx named (appropriately) O’Malley; and a leopard tortoise named Shelley (for the poet, of course).
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Lots of Action, Lots of Fun,
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This review is from: Undone: Outcast Season, Book One (Mass Market Paperback)
Rachel Caine is great at writing books that feature lots of action from start to finish. You will never be bored with one of her novels!"Undone" is no exception. However, I recommend that you read the "Weather Warden" series before this one. It's a little better than the "Outcast" series - I like the characters better, and found the plot more interesting. But more importantly, it introduces the concept of wardens and djiin. You could probably pick all this up in "Undone," but you'll get it a lot faster if you read the other series first. If you already read and enjoyed the Wardens books, this series will definitely be up your alley. Castiel is a fallen djiin - she's been cast into a human body as punishment for disobeying an order that she can't even bear to think about. But without a direct connection to the aetheric, she must rely on a Warden to stay alive. Castiel starts out as someone who never cared enough about humans to give them much thought, and she's disgusted to be stuck in human form. Her transformation throughout the books into something more human is slow, and believable. Once she experiences human life with the Wardens, she finds it hard to stay detached. So what will she do when they - and their children - are threatened? Great book for a quick, fun read. Caine delivers another page-turner!
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Great first book in the series,
By J. Guthrie "jg_reader2000" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Undone: Outcast Season, Book One (Mass Market Paperback)
Undone is the first book of a new series from Rachel Caine. However, reader beware....you will get much more out of this book if you first read the Weather Warden series of books before you embark upon this series.Let me say that I LOVED this book. I'm a fan of the Weather Warden series. If you've read any of that series, then you know about the ongoing struggles and alliances between the Djinn (old and new) and the Wardens (bad & good). The new series focuses on an Old Djinn who is cast out (and her Djinn powers "undone") by Ashan when she refuses to complete the task that he ordered her to complete. The Old Djinn that is cast out is Cassiel. Ashan transforms Cassiel into a human with some very limited Djinn-like powers that can only be supported by energies Cassiel draws from a Warden. Undone is a book of twists and turns. The set-up of the book in the early chapters has many characters that you will know from the Warden series, including Joanna, David, and Lewis. Those characters introduce the situation and then spin Cassiel off to New Mexico with a Warden who accepts responsibility for watching and "training" Cassiel. As the book progresses, major characters are attacked. Cassiel must attempt to navigate her new "life" without her Djinn powers AND while under attack from "bad" wardens and an unknown force. The motives and who-done-it atmosphere of the book will keep you guessing until the very last chapter. The book is a good introduction to the new series with a substantial hook into why additional books are required to tell the whole story. If you are a fan of the Weather Warden series, I think you will love the Outkast Season series for the in-depth look at the Djinn that is not present in any of the Weather Warden books. 13 of 17 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
superb urban fantasy,
By Harriet Klausner - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Undone: Outcast Season, Book One (Mass Market Paperback)
The Djinn Cassiel was ancient when man had yet to appear on the earth. She is one of the Old Ones wanting nothing to do with humanity as she believes they are beneath her. Unlike David, she never lived amidst these human fleas; preferring life on the aether plane of pure energy. She is cold and treacherous even to her own kind.Her life crashed when her Master, the newly made Conduit Ashan orders her to perform a task, but she refuses. As punishment for saying no, he changes her substance and exiles her in human form from the aether. Stunned Cassiel still needs aether energy to survive, but can only obtain it through the help of a weather warden. It is arranged that earth warden Manny Rocha will be her aether supplier in return for her assisting him with his job. The longer she remains in human form, the more she learns how to feel and that soon leads to her caring deeply for Manny and his family even his brother Luis. When tragedy strikes, instead of walking away to find a new host, Cassie and Luis team up seeking to find Manny's kidnapped daughter who Cassiel has learned to love. Rachel Caine, weather warden writing wizard, begins a sidebar series with the outcast Cassiel that will enthrall her fans as this is an excellent addition to the growing Caine mythos. Cassiel is terrific as a haughty essence who struggles with humanization learning first hand what a human is. Her transformation is brilliant as she is UNDONE by Manny and his family. With an abduction to add suspense, this superb urban fantasy enhances the author's universe while setting up the sequel. Harriet Klausner 3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Typical Caine Work,
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This review is from: Undone: Outcast Season, Book One (Mass Market Paperback)
First of all, you can read this book without reading the Weather Warden series by Rachael Caine, but it will help immensely in your understanding and enjoyment of the book if you have read that series.Cassiel, an Old Djinn, was cast out by the leader, Ashan, for her failure/agreement to commit a order from him. As punishment, Ashan stripped Cassiel of all of her powers and throws her to Earth as a human - but as a human who needs constant contact with a Weather Warden in order to daily "leech" powers to maintain her lifeforce. Cassiel is assigned to work with Manny Rocha on Weather Warden issues, and her change from Djinn to human is great reading. Caine did an excellent 5 star job at the beginning of this book, transitioning Cassiel from a cold, arrogant, self-serving Djinn to a member of the human race. Cassiel's bewilderment and adjustment to human ways and bodily functions is handled terrific. When I use to read the Weather Warden books, I felt the series "jumped the shark" at Book 5, and I ceased being enthralled with them and waiting eagerly for each book. The same reasons for the dissatisfaction with that series became the reason that Undone went from 5 stars to 3 in my mind. Caine can't write a straight forward plot - her characters take off in various directions, traveling here and there at breakneck speed, at times accomplishing little except to make the plot more and more complicated - and that plot is always the same - SAVE HUMANITY. Caine can't write a book that doesn't involve either world domination, killing the human race or the destruction of the globe. So it is with the book, Undone. After the tragic kidnapping of Isobel Rocha, Manny's daughter and Luis' niece, Cassiel and Luis join forces to find her. Along the way, they come to realize that Isobel's kidnapping is part of a much greater scheme of using children of Wardens to wipe out the entire human race. Another failing of Caine's works is her inability to write a book that does not end in a cliffhanger. I realize that it should be expected because the books are numbered as a series, which pretty much tells you that the story continues; however, some resolutions should happen at the end of each book, and they don't. I probably won't read anymore in this series. The same flaws that weaved through the Weather Warden series obviously apply here. While Caine is a very inventive and excellent writer, her inability to dampen her grandiose plots make for unnecessarily complicated schemes and at times, confusing reading. |
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