Helpful Score: 10
Undone was fantastic. Ms. Caine does an excellent job in drawing this reader into a great spin-off to the Weather Warden series. It's about a former Djinn named Cassiel. She was banished to a human body for disobeying her leader. The course of the story follows Cassiel as she learns to deal with her human limitations and the world that the Wardens live in. It was suspenseful from the very beginning. It was action-packed, funny and, at times, tender and left me wondering what road this was taking. It was nice seeing the transition from cold Djinn to caring human. In Caine's usual fashion, we are left with a cliff-hanger, but I cannot wait for the next one.
Helpful Score: 3
This is a terrific story! This is another book set in the Weather Warden's world, but the heroine is Cassiel, one of the Old Djinn, She is cast out of the aetheric by Ashan because she will not undertake a horrific command. She actually becomes 'human' which is humilitating and potentially fatal for her.
She becomes attached to a Warden and his family in order to survuve and begins to truly become 'human' with all of their emotions and vulnerabilities. Then something terrible happens that makes her doubt what she had always held as the truth about djinn, humans and life itself.
I really enjoyed the transformation of this character, Cassiel. The story is original and the action fast and the pace just right. Caine writes really engaging books and this is the start of another great series! Can't wait for "Unknown", the next book in the series!!
She becomes attached to a Warden and his family in order to survuve and begins to truly become 'human' with all of their emotions and vulnerabilities. Then something terrible happens that makes her doubt what she had always held as the truth about djinn, humans and life itself.
I really enjoyed the transformation of this character, Cassiel. The story is original and the action fast and the pace just right. Caine writes really engaging books and this is the start of another great series! Can't wait for "Unknown", the next book in the series!!
Helpful Score: 2
WARNING! THIS BOOK IS A CONTINUATION!!!
I really, truly wish someone had told me the Outcast series is a continuation of the Weather Warden series.
Do not believe those who say you can read it prior to reading the Wardens. In the first few chapters I had NO idea what was going on because Undone starts off directly after the events of the Weather Wardens. This is a world that's already built, so unless you know (by reading Weather Wardens), it's nothing but confusing.
Secondly, if you haven't read the Wardens first, you will ruin some things for yourself. There are several Weather Wardens in the beginning chapters, and it's written as though the reader is EXPECTED to know them and what's going on. I finally put the book down and I'm waiting for the Warden series that I ordered to come in, then I'll come back to this book.
I really, truly wish someone had told me the Outcast series is a continuation of the Weather Warden series.
Do not believe those who say you can read it prior to reading the Wardens. In the first few chapters I had NO idea what was going on because Undone starts off directly after the events of the Weather Wardens. This is a world that's already built, so unless you know (by reading Weather Wardens), it's nothing but confusing.
Secondly, if you haven't read the Wardens first, you will ruin some things for yourself. There are several Weather Wardens in the beginning chapters, and it's written as though the reader is EXPECTED to know them and what's going on. I finally put the book down and I'm waiting for the Warden series that I ordered to come in, then I'll come back to this book.
Helpful Score: 1
I have enjoyed Rachel Caine's seven Weather Warden Series books, and this new series, which is an offshoot of WW's is very violent. I didn't like the character deaths, and really not even the main character. The only thing that kept me reading was the fact that this story does have connections to the Weather Wardens. The motivations of many of the story's occurances are vague, or unbelievable, right along with her powers which were supposedly "undone".
Helpful Score: 1
Excellent character development, bad ending. I hate 'to be continued' books. I won't be able to make a final decision on if I like it until I get my hands on book two. Especially since the fate of the world looks kinda doubtful at the end.
My first non-vampire related book to read in a long time. Made the jump from Rachel Caine's YA series to this one and haven't regretted it at all. Love the characterizations and the plots. A neat spin on the universe.
A great spinoff from the the Weather Wardens series. Cassie is cast out by a powerful djinn and has to figure out how to live as a human.
At 1st this book seemed to be a replay of the same ole weather warden book but about 1/2 thru the story came into it's own and I couldn't put it down. Undone is the story of Cassiel who is cast out of the dijinn...for what reason, she will not tell. She is an outcast among the dijinn, not trusted by the wardens, and doesn't fit in with the humans. As the story progresses she starts to come to terms with being human. Having warden type abilities and a dijinn logic helps her along. I really enjoyed the story...and in true Rachel Caine style the story ends w/ a huge cliff hanger that has you dying to get your hands on the next book.
Great start to a new series! I read this in one sitting. You do not have to be familiar with the Weather Wardens to enjoy this book.
Undone is the first installment in the Outcast series by Rachel Caine. The book focuses on Cassiel, a fallen Djinn who has been cast out to live life as a human by Ashan as punishment for disobeying an order. No longer connected to the aetheric, she's forced to rely on the Warden's whose power she now needs to sustain her in order to survive. Taken under their wing, Cassiel is assigned by Lewis to work with Manny Rocha, an earth Warden. Cassiel struggles to adapt to human life as she had always shied away from humankind while she was a Djinn. On meeting Manny's family â his wife Angela, daughter Isabel and brother Luis Cassiel starts to form an attachment to her new family â particularly Isabel.
Cassiel's new life is disrupted when Manny and Angela are murdered and Isabel is abducted. Now teamed up with Luis whom she has started to have feelings for, Cassiel tries to track down Isabel while facing a menacing unseen force that is hell bent on stopping her at all costs. Loved this book.
Cassiel's new life is disrupted when Manny and Angela are murdered and Isabel is abducted. Now teamed up with Luis whom she has started to have feelings for, Cassiel tries to track down Isabel while facing a menacing unseen force that is hell bent on stopping her at all costs. Loved this book.
I loved this book! I have seen books by this author (i.e. the Weather Warden Series) many times and bypassed them in stores, but now that I have read Undone, I can't wait to receive and read the books in the Weather Warden series.
On August 24, 2007, Caine announced on her mailing list and her blog that she has sold a four-book series called "Outcast Season" to Roc Books. Describing the upcoming series, she said "This series is a spin-off of the Weather Warden series, and will follow the story of a Djinn who's been cut off from her fellows, and must rely on the goodwill of a Warden partner for her very existence. Along the way, she has to face enemies and challenges that the Djinn can't, or won't face themselves." The first book in the series, "Undone." is due out in February 2009.
