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Sharon Shinn

Författare till Archangel

45+ verk 17,505 medlemmar 596 recensioner 92 favoritmärkta

Om författaren

Sharon Shinn was born in 1957. She is a novelist who writes combining fantasy, science fiction and romance. She attended and graduated from Northwestern University. She has published more than a dozen novels for adult and young adult readers. She works as a journalist in St. Louis Missouri. She is visa mer a frequent attender of science-fiction/ fantasy conventions such as ArmadilloCon26 and Capricorn 29 in 2009. Sharon Shinn donated her archive to the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University. Sharon Shinn won the William Crawford Award for Achievement in Fantasy and was nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. A journalist who lives in St. Louis, Shinn is also the author of Archangel, Jovah's Angel, The Alleluia Files, Wrapt in Crystal, and The Shape-Changer's Wife. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Serier

Verk av Sharon Shinn

Archangel (1996) 1,855 exemplar
Summers at Castle Auburn (2001) 1,230 exemplar
Mystic and Rider (2005) 1,176 exemplar
Jovah's Angel (1997) 1,156 exemplar
The Alleluia Files (1998) 979 exemplar
Angelica (2003) 858 exemplar
The Thirteenth House (2006) 772 exemplar
Angel-Seeker (2004) 761 exemplar
The Shape-Changer's Wife (1995) — Författare — 741 exemplar
Dark Moon Defender (2006) 710 exemplar
Reader and Raelynx (2007) 616 exemplar
Troubled Waters (2010) — Författare — 589 exemplar
Heart of Gold (2000) 579 exemplar
The Safe-Keeper's Secret (2004) 543 exemplar
Jenna Starborn (2002) 542 exemplar
Wrapt in Crystal (1999) 512 exemplar
The Truth-Teller's Tale (2005) 467 exemplar
Fortune and Fate (2008) 459 exemplar
The Dream-Maker's Magic (2006) 343 exemplar
Quatrain (2009) 288 exemplar
General Winston's Daughter (2007) 250 exemplar
Gateway (2009) 216 exemplar
Royal Airs (2013) — Författare — 208 exemplar
Jeweled Fire (2015) — Författare — 148 exemplar
Shattered Warrior (2017) 136 exemplar
Unquiet Land (2016) 110 exemplar
Echo in Onyx (2019) 51 exemplar
The Shuddering City (2020) 42 exemplar
Echo in Emerald (2019) 32 exemplar
Whispering Wood (2023) 28 exemplar
Echo in Amethyst (2019) 26 exemplar
Shadows of the Past (2021) 25 exemplar
Nocturne 5 exemplar
Fallen Angel 2 exemplar

Associerade verk

Never After (Anthology 4-in-1) (2009) — Bidragsgivare — 535 exemplar
Powers of Detection: Stories of Mystery and Fantasy (2004) — Bidragsgivare — 524 exemplar
Angels of Darkness (2011) — Bidragsgivare — 419 exemplar
Unusual Suspects: Stories of Mystery & Fantasy (2008) — Bidragsgivare — 404 exemplar
Elemental (2006) — Bidragsgivare — 175 exemplar
Fantastic Hope (2020) — Bidragsgivare — 118 exemplar
The Mammoth Book of Ghost Romance (2012) — Bidragsgivare — 60 exemplar
Year's Best Fantasy 7 (2007) — Bidragsgivare — 59 exemplar

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Allmänna fakta

Födelsedag
1957
Kön
female
Nationalitet
USA
Bostadsorter
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Utbildning
Northwestern University
Yrken
journalist
novelist
Priser och utmärkelser
John W. Campbell Award Nominee

Medlemmar

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Sharon Shinn is the master of slow-burn, clean romantic subplots. My favorite thing about them is that they are always mature, and the characters usually act quite reasonably. This book is a high fantasy quest, with a big helping of intrigue where the southern lords are plotting treason against the king. High fantasy quests are hard to make interesting because they can be meandering as the people questing go from town to town and it can be difficult in between episodes of dramatic things to pay attention. This book suffers a bit from that, but I can fully say that I don't have a lot of patience as a reader and quest fantasy is not my favorite sub-genre so I don't count that as a strike against this book. If you like quest fantasy you probably won't mind it. What saved it for me was that all of the characters were interesting, and I wanted to know more about them. I became terribly invested in each of the characters' relationships with each other. This book is also setup for mysteries and conflicts that will hopefully be revealed in the next books, so I will definitely be reading them.… (mer)
 
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kittyfoyle | 45 andra recensioner | Mar 15, 2024 |
This story read like a poorly-developed first, possibly second draft. The main character ("Val") was supposedly in her late 20's but comes across as a petulant, immature young girl. Val has some interesting aspects where she is tuned into the forest and the land, especially the 'heart tree', so what the heck was the author thinking by not designating her the Hunti prime? With such a strong narrative lead in, developments inexplicably fizzled as someone else in the family took over.

Add in a perfunctory romance: Sebastian, who was the oh-so-charming rogue and unpredictable smuggler-thief, especially with this eye-roll, cringe-worthy "I always loved you", and Val's "oh, I loved you too but didn't know" response. Such unwriterly tropes detract from any reader-engagement.

A real shock was Shinn’s loss of her usual excellent pacing: the story was into chapter 27 before anything actually happened. Finally, we see the plot take off. Except nope, over-the-top-action for a couple segments, followed by a chapter or two and the finale of Val's adventure hiding from pursuit in the Challinbar grove on her family estate was a flatlined rescue; ultimately, a boring dénouement was so trite, it was hard to believe someone else didn't ghost-write the story.

Where is the talent that is so evident in the first 4 Elemental Blessings books, not to mention the wonderful heroines like Zoe, (Troubled Waters), Rachel (Archangel, Samaria series), Senneth (Mystic & Rider, Twelve Houses series), for example? More importantly, where is her editor? Readers may be very disappointed with how Elemental Blessings was continued.
… (mer)
½
 
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SandyAMcPherson | 2 andra recensioner | Mar 4, 2024 |
Oh, how delightful to return to Welce to learn about the hunti-folk. I do secretly wish that another person ended up as Prime, but aside from that the story was a great mix of old characters and new and it was just the book I wanted to read right now. I fear this might be the end of the series. I hope the author is inspired to take us further in the future.
 
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jennybeast | 2 andra recensioner | Mar 2, 2024 |
Fascinating world! I especially enjoyed all of the passages about music and how the voices singing with one another created such heavenly sounds.
 
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s_carr | 58 andra recensioner | Feb 25, 2024 |

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Statistik

Verk
45
Även av
10
Medlemmar
17,505
Popularitet
#1,264
Betyg
3.8
Recensioner
596
ISBN
199
Språk
4
Favoritmärkt
92

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