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The Russian Cage (3) (Gunnie Rose) Paperback – October 5, 2021
Charlaine Harris (Author) Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author |
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Picking up right where A Longer Fall left off, this thrilling third installment follows Lizbeth Rose as she takes on one of her most dangerous missions yet: rescuing her estranged partner, Prince Eli, from the Holy Russian Empire. Once in San Diego, Lizbeth is going to have to rely upon her sister Felicia, and her growing Grigori powers to navigate her way through this strange new world of royalty and deception in order to get Eli freed from jail where he’s being held for murder.
Russian Cage continues to ramp up the momentum with more of everything Harris’ readers adore her for with romance, intrigue, and a deep dive into the mysterious Holy Russian Empire.
- Print length304 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherGallery / Saga Press
- Publication dateOctober 5, 2021
- Dimensions5.31 x 0.8 x 8.25 inches
- ISBN-101481495003
- ISBN-13978-1481495004
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“An entertaining addition to a consistently fun series.” —Kirkus
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I sat at the table in my cabin, my sister’s letter in my hand, and read it for the third time. After that, it was hard to sit still. Part of my head was making a list of the things I had to do now. The other part still couldn’t believe Felicia’s message. I’d gotten a letter from her right after Christmas, a thank-you note for the deerskin jacket I’d sent her. Getting another letter this soon after the first one had been a surprise. As I’d walked out of the Segundo Mexia post office, I’d stuffed it in my pocket, figuring it was full of chatter about what the students had done for the rest of the holiday. Holy Russian stuff.
I hadn’t felt any need to hurry back up the hill to my cabin, and I’d put away my groceries before I’d opened Felicia’s letter.
Dear Sister, Felicia began. Thanks so much for the warm jacket. It is eligant!
Right away a bell had started ringing.
From eleven-year-old Felicia’s very first letter to me, every word had been spelled correctly (her handwriting had steadily improved, too). Her whole class had to write letters home at least once a month—at least, those who had homes—and they had to keep a dictionary beside them while they wrote.
Felicia had underlined the misspelled word. Just in case I didn’t notice.
Too bad I can’t use it now. It was lovely and warm. I know you spent a lot of time with it. It’s stored away in a box until you can repair it.
With it. Not working on it. She’d had to put away her deerskin jacket? Why? I knew winters weren’t really cold in San Diego, but surely a jacket…?
I wish you were closer, so we could talk face-to-face. Maybe you could visit. Let me know! I remember when I met you in Mexico, and you sent me here to the HRE. That was a great day with good companions.
I hope you’re well and you feel like traveling again soon. Your sister Felicia
I hadn’t spent much time with my sister—hardly any, in fact. But I knew some things about her. Not only was she smart, she was devious.
Felicia expected me to figure this out.
All right, working backward. The “good companions” we’d had on the train platform in Ciudad Juárez were Klementina and Eli, both wizards from the Holy Russian Empire. Eli had been on a mission to find descendants of Grigori Rasputin, since Rasputin had died. The wizard’s blood had been keeping Tsar Alexei alive. Felicia was Rasputin’s granddaughter by one of his bastards. Klementina, ancient and powerful, had come to check on Eli’s progress. She wasn’t the only one.
A group of grigoris who wanted to topple the tsar had shown up to stop Felicia from reaching him.
The aged Klementina and I had held them off while Eli and Felicia boarded the train to the Holy Russian Empire. Klementina had been killed. I had survived. Eli and Felicia had reached the HRE.
So that left Eli. Eligant. Felicia was telling me that she couldn’t see Eli any longer. That now he was in a box. She couldn’t mean a coffin; I could “repair” it.
I stared at the letter for at least three minutes before I understood.
Eli was in prison.
Felicia hoped I could get Eli out. She wanted me to come bust him out of a cell. My mind raced ahead, much as I told myself to slow down.
I’d have to take a train, probably several trains. I needed to go to my mom’s house and fish my money out of the hidden hole in the wall in my old room. I hoped I’d have enough. I actually rocked on my feet, torn between running back to town to visit my mother and Jackson and packing my stuff here and telling my nearest neighbor, Chrissie, I’d be gone for a while.
In the back of my head, I knew the smartest thing to do was to sit tight. Eli was resourceful; he could get out of this dilemma by himself.
But I knew I wouldn’t do that.
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- Publisher : Gallery / Saga Press (October 5, 2021)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 304 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1481495003
- ISBN-13 : 978-1481495004
- Item Weight : 8 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.31 x 0.8 x 8.25 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #214,744 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2,682 in Historical Fantasy (Books)
- #3,087 in Historical Thrillers (Books)
- #3,985 in Dark Fantasy
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About the author

Charlaine Harris was born in Tunica, Mississippi, and raised in the Mississippi River Delta area in the middle of a cotton field. Though her early works consisted largely of poems about ghosts and, later, teenage angst, she wrote plays when she attended Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee and started writing novels a few years later.
After publishing two stand-alone mysteries, Harris launched a light-hearted mystery series 'starring' Georgia librarian Aurora Teagarden. The first of the eight books, Real Murders, was shortlisted for Best Novel in the 1990 Agatha Awards. In 1996, she released the first of the much darker Shakespeare mysteries, featuring the amateur sleuth Lily Bard, a karate student who makes her living cleaning houses.
Charlaine Harris then wrote the first of her Southern vampire mysteries starring Sookie Stackhouse, the quirky, telepathic waitress who works in a bar in the fictional Northern Louisiana town of Bon Temps. Dead Until Dark won the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Mystery. It also won Harris a whole new fan club of devoted readers and pushed her into the bestseller lists. The Sookie Stackhouse series, in which Sookie has to deal with vampires, werecreatures and other supernatural folk - not to mention her own complicated love life - was also instrumental in creating the urban fantasy genre.
Sookie Stackhouse also enchanted Alan Ball, creator of the smash TV show Six Feet Under, who took an option and wrote and directed the pilot episode for True Blood himself. It was an instant hit when it premiered in the US, and that success was repeated when it was first aired in Britain last year. The second season of TRUE BLOOD will start this spring.
Harris's newest series features Harper Connelly, a young woman who, after being struck by lightning, finds herself able to locate the bodies of the dead and to determine the cause of their death. There are four Harper titles (Grave Sight, Grave Surprise, An Ice Cold Grave and Grave Secret).
Charlaine Harris is a member of the Mystery Writers of America and the American Crime Writers League. She is a member of the board of Sisters in Crime, and alternates with Joan Hess as president of the Arkansas Mystery Writers Alliance. She is married, the mother of three, and lives in a small town in Southern Arkansas. When she is not writing her own books, she reads omnivorously!
Here are the Sookie Stackhouse True Blood novels in series order:
Dead Until Dark: Sookie Stackhouse 1
Living Dead In Dallas: Sookie Stackhouse 2
Club Dead: Sookie Stackhouse 3
Dead To The World: Sookie Stackhouse 4
Dead As A Doornail: Sookie Stackhouse 5
Definitely Dead: Sookie Stackhouse 6
All Together Dead: Sookie Stackhouse 7
From Dead To Worse: Sookie Stackhouse 8
Dead And Gone: Sookie Stackhouse 9
Dead In The Family: Sookie Stackhouse 10
A Touch Of Dead (a Sookie Stackhouse short story collection_
Here are the Harper Connelly novels in series order:
Grave Sight: Harper Connelly 1
Grave Surprise: Harper Connelly 2
An Ice Cold Grave: Harper Connelly 3
Grave Secret: Harper Connelly 4
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I love the sense of humor in these books. Some remarks made me laugh out loud. We had two fun characters to meet, Lizbeth’s half-sister and Eli’s old friend from Grigori training. I love the word ‘shirty’, a Southern term which means strident or aggressive (new to me).
I’m not sure what is next for Lizbeth — she needs to earn a living after working for free on the west coast. Often a book will leave some details unresolved, but this one wraps things up.
I liked that more time was giving to the supporting characters in this novel. The interaction of Russian society to the past west coast Americans was fun, and by adding in the grigori magic changed things for a better story.
Introducing Lizbeth into a class society allowed us as we read along to understand more because often Lizbeth didn’t understand it herself. Showing her that just because a woman and her daughters are provided for, does not mean they aren’t made of strong material, just differently then a Gunnie would be. I wish more had been done with the Grand Duchess Xenia character, as she obviously was another strong woman in the series and her interactions with Lizbeth could have been humorous.
Felicia misinterpretation of her age was an inspired choice. I like in the end she explained she knew some spells possibly even better then her grigori tutors, and how she would use them to her benefit. It will be interesting to see how the future develops from this perspective.
Felix was an amazing layered character. That he does love Eli was great, but that it was also true enough that he could allow Eli to find what’s right for him and Felix would hopefully find consolation in his connection with Lucy. That is a purer form of love then most people could give.
I’m not sure the Tsar truly needed to have Eli leave, but I do think he created such an excuse to allow one of his staunchest supporters to find a life outside of the HRE the only way he could. Besides, it never hurts to have a loyal subject elsewhere to keep an eye open for future attempts on the crown.
Hopefully the next book will released soon, I really enjoy this series! So will each book be a new area off the map? Does that mean at some point they might get to the nation of Hawaii? There could be lots of fun twists and turns incorporating that concept in the series.
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I liked Lizbeth Rose, the young gunnie [aka gun for hire] in her alternate US with the western touch from the get-go. What I was [mildly] complaining about with book one was the relatively long introduction of the world and the slow pacing at the beginning. Both sequels didn’t suffer from that – and “The Russian Cage” is actually without any lulls, fast-paced from beginning to end. It was excellent entertainment and I liked every page of it.
Lizbeth is between jobs when she gets the information that her friend/part-time lover Eli was imprisoned in his home country, the Holy Russian Empire [that is now occupying the former state of California], for unknown, but surely political reasons. Lizzy immediately gets moving [and I loved how C. Harris managed to make me feel, how long and uncomfortable the journey from Texoma to HRE is] and makes it her mission to free Eli. So Lizzy’s quest is about getting around in a huge town [San Diego] in a country with a volatile political situation and produce a sound plan to get Eli out without endangering his mother and sisters.
And Lizzy is doing great – I love her deadpan comments on everything [especially what women can and can’t do in the HRE] and how she just does what has to be done without making a fuss. And she [and the reader] don’t only get to know Eli’s family [that is growing on me during the story], but also her own sister Felicia. Whom I did not expect to like so much – Felicia is awesome, I hope there’s going to be more about her.
The book isn’t as dark as the prequel was, plot wise, although it’s gory in a fun way [sounds strange, but if you know the series, you know what I mean]. Overall: great entertainment, I couldn’t lay it down.
