Format: Paperback, 544 pages
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Publisher: Mira
Source: Publisher
Genre: Fantasy / Epic
Private Kaylin Neya
already has Dragons and Barrani as roommates. Adding one injured,
flightless Aerian to her household should be trivial. Sure, the Aerian
is Sergeant Moran dar Carafel, but Kaylin's own sergeant is a Leontine,
the definition of growly and fanged. She can handle one Aerian.
But
when a walk to the Halls of Law becomes a street-shattering magical
assassination attempt on the sergeant, Kaylin discovers that it's not
the guest who's going to be the problem: it's all of the people who
suddenly want Moran dar Carafel dead. And though Moran refuses to tell
her why she's being targeted, Kaylin is determined to discover her
secret and protect her at all costs--even if keeping Moran safe means
dealing with Aerian politics, angry dragons and something far more
sinister.
Michelle Sagara's Cast in Flight is the Thirteenth installment in the authors Chronicles of Elantra series. The story is once again told in the third person narrative. Key Characters: Lord Private Kaylin Neya, Corporal Severn Handred, Annarion, Mandarin, Teela, Nightshade, Helen, Bellusdeo, and Sergeant Moran dar Carafel. Elantra is a place where you will find Dragons, Barrani, Humans, Leonites, Aerian, and Tha'alani. Kaylin works the Hall of Law as a Hawk.
After losing her wings, Kaylin gave Sergeant Moran a home even if it were a temporary one. After all, she's already living with two Barrani, and the only remaining female Dragon, as well as a sentient being known as Helen what's one more? When a walk to the Halls of Law becomes an assassination attempt on the sergeant, Kaylin discovers that it’s not the guest who’s going to be the problem: it’s all of the people who suddenly want Moran dar Carafel dead.
Kaylin is determined to discover her secret and protect her at all costs, even if keeping Moran safe means dealing with Aerian politics, angry dragons and something far more sinister. Kaylin's curiosity and temptations are always front and center. She's not afraid to ask the important questions, even though 99% of the people she works with can easily kill her. She's slowly getting to the point where it's time to give her a promotion to Corporal.
Hopefully that will happen soon. For someone who has read this book from the first one onward, I am still conflicted about my feelings for Kaylin. Time and time again, she seems to get in deep trouble and somehow manages to escape relatively unscathed. She wears Nightshades mark on her face, she's called the Chosen, yet nobody has really enlightened her into what that exactly means in the overall pictures, she has a familiar she is unable to communicate with (except in certain circumstances).
She has an allergy to magic, but her magic helps heal and her services are always on call by the midwives whenever there's a baby in danger of not making it. She's somehow managed to survive to the hardest test a Barrani can face and became worthy of being called Lord Kaylin. There's some really interesting scenes in this book including the dinner that includes three dragons, Bellusdeo, the Emperor, and the Arkon.
This is the story of Moran grudgingly accepting the mantle of power that is her birthright, and Kaylin unraveling more of the mystery of Shadow. This is a series that you need to read in order, because the amount of world building and character work that has happened thus far would leave newcomers more than a little lost.
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