Angel-Seeker

by Sharon Shinn | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
ISBN: 0441012604 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingLeishaCamdenwing of Alna bydel, Oslo fylke Norway on 3/9/2007
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Journal Entry 1 by wingLeishaCamdenwing from Alna bydel, Oslo fylke Norway on Friday, March 9, 2007
Review copied from amazon.com.

From Booklist
Shinn's new novel of Samaria, where angels and humans cohabit, is set in the time of rebuilding after the chaos of former archangel Raphael's fall and is told through the intertwining stories of the mortals Elizabeth and Rebekah and the angel Obadiah. Elizabeth, forced by circumstances to be a servant in her cousin's house, leaves abruptly for the new community of Cedar Hills, where she hopes to take an angel lover. Rebekah, a young Jansai woman, is dissatisfied with her life but sees no alternatives to it. Obadiah is sent by Gabriel to live in Cedar Hills and negotiate with the Jansai over issues surrounding the now-forbidden enslavement of the Elori tribes. Injured over the desert, Obadiah is found by Rebekah, who tends him and has her life turned upside-down. From Elizabeth's discovery that an angel is perhaps not the kind of lover she seeks to the fracturing of Jansai custom when Rebekah nearly dies for the crime of being loved by an angel, a solid read. Regina Schroeder
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About the Author
Sharon Shinn is a journalist who works for a trade magazine. Her first novel, The Shapechanger's Wife, was selected by Locus as the best first fantasy novel of 1995. She has won the William C. Crawford Award for Outstanding New Fantasy Writer, and was twice nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. A graduate of Northwestern University, she has lived in the Midwest most of her life.

Journal Entry 2 by wingLeishaCamdenwing from Alna bydel, Oslo fylke Norway on Sunday, December 14, 2008
This book has been to Egypt!! :-D

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Journal Entry 3 by wingLeishaCamdenwing from Alna bydel, Oslo fylke Norway on Sunday, December 14, 2008
I've read this book now - I read it in October during a vacation in Egypt. See above. ;-)

This was a wonderful read, I loved it, I was so thrilled to be able to return to Samaria. :-) It is a little less ambitious in scope, I felt, than some of the previous novels. But this is a natural result of the characters Shinn has chosen to focus on in this novel - important individuals in Samarian society, at least many of them, but not world leaders as have been the main characters in other books in this series.

Beautifully written, wonderful characters, and a fantastically well wrought setting. Not as thought-inspiring as the first books (because, again, it's less ambitious, I think) ... it deals with personal stories more than with the bigger picture. Would be interesting to hear about why Shinn has chosen this perspective. But mainly I'm just happy that she has chosen to write more about Samaria.

I would recommend this book to a great many fantasy and/or science fiction fans ... except to those who enjoy mainly dark fantasy, space opera, that kind of thing. Not sure what genre box to place this in ... but it is a very enjoyable read, well written, intelligent, with beautiful language and well-rounded characters. Shinn is a brilliant writer and I'd recommend almost all of her books.

This will now become part of my Permanent Collection. May be available for loans to trustworthy BCers and other friends, though. :-)

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