Journal Entry 1 by karendawn from Lafayette, Indiana USA on Sunday, July 24, 2005

From Publishers Weekly
The latest enchantment from Crawford Award winner Shinn (The Shape Changer's Wife and the Samaria trilogy) combines romantic spice, a dash of faerie and a pinch of intrigue to create a hybrid souffl‚ that is delicious, if not filling. Lowborn Corie, the impressionable young heroine, spends her summers with her highborn sister, Elisandra, at Castle Auburn and the rest of the year in a village apprenticed to a "wise woman" witch/herbalist called Grandmother. Corie accompanies her Uncle Jaxon on a hunt for the Aliora, faerielike creatures who serve as unwilling slaves to the humans inhabiting this quasi-medieval world. Also along for the ride is Elisandra's future husband, Prince Bryan of Auburn, a vain 16-year-old adored by most girls (including Corie) and loathed by most men. As Corie ages, she gets over her crush on the increasingly narcissistic and self-indulgent young prince. The relationship between the sisters deepens along with the plot lines revolving around Jaxon's obsession with the Aliora and their queen, Rowena, whose flickering presence suggests other, darker story lines that Shinn might have investigated to produce a less predictable confection. The love story between the hunter and the hunted is more electrifying than the sisters' romances. What makes Bryan change is never explored fully, just as his constant bad-boy image is never explained. 

Journal Entry 2 by karendawn from Lafayette, Indiana USA on Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Another Sharon Shinn book to leave me with a smile on my face. She just has such a way of weaving words that just leaves me in wonder because it seems so simple and yet so amazing. I'd say that I want to read more about Corie, but if that happened, something would probably be going wrong and I want only the best for her. So I am content to leave her where she ended up.

P.S. The description I copied in the journal above talks about Bryan changing. I don't want to give any spoilers, but changing? What is that talking about?? 

Journal Entry 3 by karendawn at Book Swap in BookRelay.Com, Bookrelay -- Controlled Releases on Thursday, July 06, 2006

Released 5 yrs ago (7/6/2006 UTC) at Book Swap in BookRelay.Com, Bookrelay -- Controlled Releases

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on its way to Antheras who picked this up in YBS #16 on BookRelay 

Journal Entry 4 by Antheras from Waterloo, Ontario Canada on Tuesday, July 11, 2006

I'm so excited to receive this. I may pass this to a friend to read before I do, since I'm a bit buried in Mt. TBR at the moment.