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Summary: Shadower
Review: Ah, Sabin, there is no other like him. He is the stuff that dreams are made of (another heavy sigh). I am a new reader of futuristic romance novels, but after reading Shadower and Shielder, I am absolutely hooked. Ms. Spangler's writing is simply magic. She makes her characters so real that you want to reach out and touch them (in particular I would like to reach out and touch Sabin). From the very beginning of Shadower to the very end, Ms. Spangler grabs your attention and doesn't let go. Sabin and Moriah are a modern day Rhett and Scarlett, although Moriah could give Scarlett a run for her money in the femme fatale catagory. I would recommend Shadower (and Shielder) to anyone--from the "die hard" romance reader to the "action/adventure" reader. Ms. Spangler covers all the bases. Can't wait for the next book!!
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Summary: Will keep you glued!
Review: Captain Moriah Cameron was trying to find her contact in the bar when all hades broke loose! The last thing she wanted was to be "rescued" by Sabin Travers! Worse, he was a Shadower, a type of bounty hunter that worked for the Controllers! Moriah had an illegal shipment of iridon to deliver, FAST! She also had to find her sister, Celie. But Moriah had to be careful or end up becoming Sabin's next captive to be turned in for bounty, and the Controllers would kill her on sight for more than one reason! Sabin had no idea what possessed him to grab the ill tempered woman and get off world! When she stranded him and hijacked his ship, he thought he would kill her! Instead, he found himself attracted to her. But she and her sister had been given to Pax as a payment by their father long ago. After years of abuse, she was not about to trust men. He would have to treat her with kid gloves. ***** This one is an exciting romp through space with a feisty female and a hardened bounty hunter! This one will keep readers GLUED to the pages until all is over. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED READING! ***** Reviewed by Detra Fitch of Huntress Reviews.
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Summary: Will keep you glued!
Review: Captain Moriah Cameron was trying to find her contact in the bar when all hades broke loose! The last thing she wanted was to be "rescued" by Sabin Travers! Worse, he was a Shadower, a type of bounty hunter that worked for the Controllers! Moriah had an illegal shipment of iridon to deliver, FAST! She also had to find her sister, Celie. But Moriah had to be careful or end up becoming Sabin's next captive to be turned in for bounty, and the Controllers would kill her on sight for more than one reason! Sabin had no idea what possessed him to grab the ill tempered woman and get off world! When she stranded him and hijacked his ship, he thought he would kill her! Instead, he found himself attracted to her. But she and her sister had been given to Pax as a payment by their father long ago. After years of abuse, she was not about to trust men. He would have to treat her with kid gloves. ***** This one is an exciting romp through space with a feisty female and a hardened bounty hunter! This one will keep readers GLUED to the pages until all is over. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED READING! ***** Reviewed by Detra Fitch of Huntress Reviews.
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Summary: High adventure and sizzling romance!
Review: Catherine Spangler delivers compelling characters, sizzling romance and out of this world adventure with her second novel, SHADOWER. Sabin Travers is a dangerously handsome bounty hunter. Moriah is a beautiful smuggler harboring a painful secret. Their story is heart-warming and unforgettable. I devoured this book in a single sitting and highly recommend it to readers who like their action non-stop and their romance hot!
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Summary: A Riveting Futuristic Romance = An Excellent Read!
Review: Catherine Spangler is one of today's best writers of "futuristic romance" fiction. I read "Shielder" before "Shadower," but it doesn't matter which book you read first. Both novels stand on their own as excellent examples of the genre, and both take place on the same planet, Giza, sharing some of the same characters, but the storylines are totally different. Ms. Spangler's narratives are extremely well written, her plots are fresh and original, and her characters jump right off the page, they're so realistic. They sure found a place in my heart!
Handsome, hunky, alpha-male, Sabin Travers is a Shadower, bounty hunter extraordinaire, supposedly working for "The Collectors." Collectors are the evil folks who rule this particular quadrant of the universe, brainwashing and programing most other inhabitants to do their will through telekinetic control. Those outlaws who somehow manage to escape beneath Controller radar are shadowed, found and turned-in by Sabin and others like him. "Shadower" opens on the hell-like planet Calt, the hang-out for the dregs of the universe. Anteks, Shens, Jaccians, creatures of all kinds - thieves, smugglers, murderers - come to Calt for R&R and dirty business dealings.
Sabin is having a lousy day. The person he is hunting has eluded him and he's hot, tired and frustrated. Stepping into a local dive for some Elysian liquor, he sees an absolutely beautiful woman at the end of the bar. Intrigued to find such a woman in a place like this, he offers to keep her company - for her own safety, of course. Moriah, the lovely lady, is a smuggler whose ship has been stolen, stranding her on Calt. She ignores Sabin and enters a game of chance, Fool's Quest, with an unsavory group, hoping to win the money to pay her passage off the planet. Her subsequent good luck turns into a bar brawl. Sabin joins in the fray and the two barely manage to escape alive - without Moriah's winnings.
The last thing the lady wants is a man in her life, even for a brief fling. She disengages herself from Sabin, after begrudgingly thanking him. If Sabin knew how Moriah made her living, he would probably arrest her. Wounded from the fight and desperate to leave, Moriah decides that Sabin's ship is her only way off Calt. So she stows away. Unfortunately this proves to be a poor decision, as she inadvertently learns some highly confidential information, while on the voyage, that puts her life in grave danger.
Sabin and Moriah get along like cats and dogs in the early part of their relationship. Both are strong-willed, intelligent, highly independent people, and Moriah is operating with some heavy emotional baggage from her past. However, it is obvious that sparks fly between the two from the beginning. As the plot develops, so does the relationship, but the more attached Moriah becomes to Sabin, the more complicated her life seems to become, and she begins to make mistakes and poor decisions trying to complete a dangerous job.
There is as much suspense as romance here....and the romance sizzles. Ms. Spangler has created a grim universe where technology, progress and education do not prevent evil. She peoples her story with all kinds of fascinating creatures, and fabulous secondary characters. The author won the 1998 Emily Award for "Shielder" and she certainly deserves it. "Shadower" is a wonderful read and almost as good. I am addicted to this series. Highly recommended!!
JANA
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Summary: Excellent futuristic romance!
Review: I discovered Catherine Spangler fairly recently from a listmania entry here at Amazon. And I'm so glad I did! I'm a very picky reader, especially of futuristic romance, my favorite genre. I bought both SHIELDER and SHADOWER and sat down to read them in order by release date. I do wish I'd known that though Spangler wrote SHADOWER after SHIELDER, chronologically SHADOWER comes first. Spangler has said that the characters of Sabin and Moriah were so popular that she decided to write their story. I finished SHIELDER and plunged immediately--it was that good!--into SHADOWER and was a bit confused at first but soon realized the chronological order and adjusted. Not a big problem, but I was surprised that I enjoyed SHADOWER even more than the first book! I was VERY satisfied with how Spangler handles the heroine's mistrust of men. Far too often, authors tell us that a heroine has been abused or raped in their past and then the heroine jumps into bed with the hero like she has absolutely no issues or emotional baggage. I find that ridiculous. If an author is going to use sexual abuse as a plot device, I want a realistic reaction on the character's part. No whining; hate that! But Moriah's very believable inability to trust Sabin after the rotten way she's been treated all her life--especially in light of his Shadower profession--made perfect sense to me. As a woman, I can identify with her doubts, and I also adored Sabin's patience in dealing with her. There's nothing I love more than a tough alpha hero who can be sweet and tender with the woman he loves. The little community of women Moriah works to protect and provide for added another believable layer to the heroine's subconscious dilemma of wanting to trust Sabin but not feeling that she could afford to. And the secondary characters of Lionia and Radd and their little romance were extremely funny. All in all, Spangler does a fantastic job in creating a complex, compelling love story with wonderful emotional depths. Sabin is a knockout hero, Moriah is spunky and strong, and the action is non-stop. And, lest I neglect to mention, the sexual tension is fabulous! A GREAT read!
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Summary: Excellent futuristic romance!
Review: I discovered Catherine Spangler fairly recently from a listmania entry here at Amazon. And I'm so glad I did! I'm a very picky reader, especially of futuristic romance, my favorite genre. I bought both SHIELDER and SHADOWER and sat down to read them in order by release date. I do wish I'd known that though Spangler wrote SHADOWER after SHIELDER, chronologically SHADOWER comes first. Spangler has said that the characters of Sabin and Moriah were so popular that she decided to write their story. I finished SHIELDER and plunged immediately--it was that good!--into SHADOWER and was a bit confused at first but soon realized the chronological order and adjusted. Not a big problem, but I was surprised that I enjoyed SHADOWER even more than the first book! I was VERY satisfied with how Spangler handles the heroine's mistrust of men. Far too often, authors tell us that a heroine has been abused or raped in their past and then the heroine jumps into bed with the hero like she has absolutely no issues or emotional baggage. I find that ridiculous. If an author is going to use sexual abuse as a plot device, I want a realistic reaction on the character's part. No whining; hate that! But Moriah's very believable inability to trust Sabin after the rotten way she's been treated all her life--especially in light of his Shadower profession--made perfect sense to me. As a woman, I can identify with her doubts, and I also adored Sabin's patience in dealing with her. There's nothing I love more than a tough alpha hero who can be sweet and tender with the woman he loves. The little community of women Moriah works to protect and provide for added another believable layer to the heroine's subconscious dilemma of wanting to trust Sabin but not feeling that she could afford to. And the secondary characters of Lionia and Radd and their little romance were extremely funny. All in all, Spangler does a fantastic job in creating a complex, compelling love story with wonderful emotional depths. Sabin is a knockout hero, Moriah is spunky and strong, and the action is non-stop. And, lest I neglect to mention, the sexual tension is fabulous! A GREAT read!
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Summary: Definately not 5 star for me.
Review: I don't understand all of 5 star reviews. When I read romance book, I expect romance, some love , some feeling. The heroin of this book is nothing but annoying. And the hero is unbelivably understanding of such annoying behavior of the heroin. She try to be independent so she alway say "I can handle this," even though she can't. It's not independence, it's stupidity. She always run away, leave the hero in trouble. She justify her behavior that she's desperate but that doesn't make her amiable. Even though she has some past in which she was brutally abused by her own shadower father, and another shadower, it's not so convincing that she accuses the hero nasty bad guy. Because he shows any sign of brutality during the time they spend together. Instead he rather take good care of her despite her continous annoying misdeed to him. How can I enjoy the book when I hate the heroin character. I regret I wasted my time and money for this book.
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Summary: A Good Book
Review: I just finished reading SHADOWER and I found that is a very good story. I didn't give it five stars because I think that the plot could have been a little bit better with more depth in the secondary characters. It was a little slow in the begining but speed up after that. The plot was set up so that you could really see something like this happening. The story of the Shielders reminded me somewhat of what happened to the Jewish people during World War II. All in all it is a good story that left several ideas for sequels.
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Summary: Great futuristic romance
Review: SHADOWER Sabin Travers has seen the dregs of the universe so ending up in a hellhole on Giza is not much of a change for the bounty hunter while waiting for repairs to his ship. What is a shocker is the elegant looking woman at the other end of the bar. A planet like this dump only houses tired rejects servicing the lowlifes that frequent places like this. However, he ends up interceding when she becomes embroiled in a bar fight after she is accused of cheating during a game of chance. Moriah needs to leave Giza in order to complete her smuggling mission. She sneaks on board his ship only to learn that her "host" is helping the Shielders stop from getting annihilated. Both have immediate needs to assist large populations that apparently place Moriah and Sabin in conflict as to time and place. Also adding to the quandary is that Moriah and Sabin are falling in love with one another. Catherine Spangler's previous novel, SHIELDER, garnered several awards as a highly regarded futuristic romance. Ms. Spangler returns to that same setting with the exciting, tense-laden SHADOWER. The story line never eases up due to the apparent opposing objectives of the strong lead characters. However, what makes this tale a triumph similar to its predecessor is the audience can see and hear the heartbeats of these worlds like Giza, which in turn, provides an authentic feel to a wonderful science fiction romance. Harriet Klausner
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