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Summary: fantastic !!!
Review: This book, an enchanting fantasy (or to be more precise: a phantastic novel with a theme and plot in the tradition of Prosper Mérimée, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Théophile Gautier, and Gérard de Nerval, written in a fresh fantasy fiction style with elegant and unassuming language), is one of the few genre works that manages to cross the border from enjoyably trivial pageturners to works of true literary merit. To read this book is like experiencing, with full awareness, another life, and the end of the book returns you to yourself with wisdom gained.Thank you, Sharon. But, a warning: the ending, though perfect, positive, and absolutely right, is not easy on someone, lonely and hungry for happiness, like me. It took me some time to get over this tale and be able to start reading another book. Few books have so drawn me into their world.
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Summary: Simple, elegant, disturbing
Review: This is no ordinary fantasy, or romance. Shinn skillfully combines elements of both, plus a subtle sense of horror, in the casual yet progressive plot. I had to be strongly persuaded by a friend to begin reading it, but I really enjoyed it once I started. The writing is similar to the styles of some of my favorite authors--not as graceful and surreal as Patricia McKillip, or as complex and masterful as Gene Wolfe, but nearly as good. Overall this book is both seductive and sinister, and very wonderful to read.
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Summary: The Shape-Changer's Wife -- Short but Fantastic
Review: This is truthfully how fantasy writing was meant to be. "The Shape-Changer's Wife" is a beatiful, short tale with all the elements of the genre and wonderfully written. Most fantasy books try too hard to have complicated plots, and yet don't focus on the characters and the story itself. In this book, the tale is simple, but enriched and perfectly written. I would definetly recommend this to all Fantasy readers. Sharon Shinn is a master at storytelling.
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Summary: The Shape-Changer's Wife -- Short but Fantastic
Review: This is truthfully how fantasy writing was meant to be. "The Shape-Changer's Wife" is a beatiful, short tale with all the elements of the genre and wonderfully written. Most fantasy books try too hard to have complicated plots, and yet don't focus on the characters and the story itself. In this book, the tale is simple, but enriched and perfectly written. I would definetly recommend this to all Fantasy readers. Sharon Shinn is a master at storytelling.
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Summary: Short, sweet, engaging.
Review: This little book carries you right along through a simple and highly original fairy tale constructed with hauntingly familiar story elements. Wizards, magic, romance, good, evil -- it's all there. Rather than using a cloying "fairy tale" tone, Shinn's writing style is contemporary and unpretentious. I highly recommend this novella.
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Summary: An Interesting Tale
Review: This was a short, easy read. It is a clever story, a bit predictable (but most books are it seems) and intriguing. Again, as I said in my review of Heart of Gold, I know what Sharon Shinn can create, and this book does not live up to that. It is an older book, and she has progrsreesed as a writer since it. But it is a good story and worth the read.
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Summary: Enthralling and lyrical fantasy
Review: Those who enjoyed Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn will love this elegant and graceful fantasy. The writing is lushly atmospheric and compelling; the characters are all fully explored and realistic. Although it appears to have the trappings of a traditional fantasy (wizards, shape-changing, romance), The Shape-Changer's Wife has more than meets the eye. A young wizard come to learn the trade of shape-changing finds instead a gloomy house with bizarre occupants including the mysterious and enigmatic wizard's wife, Lilith. Thought-provoking and haunting long after being finished. Highly, highly recommended for fans of Robin McKinley and Patricia A. McKillip.
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Summary: Very nicely done, quiet and understated.
Review: Very nicely done -- some tense moments arising not out of life-and-limb conflict but out of moral conflict, with well-drawn characters and an excellent setting. Quite promising. Pity this good novel was followed by tripe like the _Archangel_ series.
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Summary: Enchanting
Review: When I picked up this book I had forgotten I had actually read three of her other books the one on angels.This was so differant it never occured to me it was the same author. She draws you so well into this book that although you suspect the horrible enfolding events before it enfolds you still read every word because she is an amazing writer.Writing is not only about surprising a reader with twists and turns but writing is often keeping a reader interested even when they know what is about to happen.
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