Rating: 
Summary: Poor
Review: This book is poor on two subjects: - the author tries to make the world evolve, but does not succeed in giving it reality. In particular, the approach on science is almost ridiculous, - you can skip one page very two pages, the story is so empty. Finally, don't buy the three books, it is not worth the time and the money.
Rating: 
Summary: Great Conclusion To The Series
Review: This third and final volume in Ms. Shinn's Samaria trilogy takes place a hundred years after time of "Jovah's Angel". The society has become industrialized, and a surpressed dissident cult exists which believes that the god Jovah is actually an orbiting spaceship, and that proof of this was found in years past by the Angel Alleluia and later surpressed. Just to clarify things, although angels are main characters in these stories, they are not the heavenly, chubby-cheeked cherubim of greeting cards. They are flesh and blood beings, with all the foibles of humanity.Samarian society appears to be slowly coming full circle, from what the original settlers envisioned, to that which the settlers originally escaped. Power within the society is shifting away from the angels, and the Archangel appears to be pursuing an agenda of his own which appears to be in direct conflict with his predestined role within that society. This book tells the story of Tamar, a dedicated cultist, and the angel Jared who become uneasy allies in the search for Alleluia's truths. The Samarian society is once again richly detailed, and if you've been reading the series from the beginning you'll recognize the changes in lifestyle and attitudes that have taken place since the first book. Tamar and Jared are interesting, well-developed characters, initially mistrusting each other, but then coming to accept that their meeting was predestined by Jovah.
Rating:
Summary: Great Conclusion To The Series
Review: This third and final volume in Ms. Shinn's Samaria trilogy takes place a hundred years after time of "Jovah's Angel". The society has become industrialized, and a surpressed dissident cult exists which believes that the god Jovah is actually an orbiting spaceship, and that proof of this was found in years past by the Angel Alleluia and later surpressed. Just to clarify things, although angels are main characters in these stories, they are not the heavenly, chubby-cheeked cherubim of greeting cards. They are flesh and blood beings, with all the foibles of humanity. Samarian society appears to be slowly coming full circle, from what the original settlers envisioned, to that which the settlers originally escaped. Power within the society is shifting away from the angels, and the Archangel appears to be pursuing an agenda of his own which appears to be in direct conflict with his predestined role within that society. This book tells the story of Tamar, a dedicated cultist, and the angel Jared who become uneasy allies in the search for Alleluia's truths. The Samarian society is once again richly detailed, and if you've been reading the series from the beginning you'll recognize the changes in lifestyle and attitudes that have taken place since the first book. Tamar and Jared are interesting, well-developed characters, initially mistrusting each other, but then coming to accept that their meeting was predestined by Jovah.
Rating: 
Summary: excellent character development over an extended time period
Review: This trilogy truly lives up to the potential of the first book, a rarity in publishing. I was very much impressed by Shinn's characterizations as well as her ability to balance historical perspective with individual beliefs. The growth of faith and the ultimate transition from a theocracy to a technocracy was amazing. The lapse of time, a couple hundred years, between each book allowed Shinn to explore sociological changes in a highly personalized context. It also gives ample demostration of how historical remembrance shifts to fit the needs of the current time. Her plotting is excellent, her dialogue realistic and her descriptions evocative. All in all an excellent book.
Rating:
Summary: Not sure, but excited
Review: Well, this book hasn't comeout yet, but I think It will have to do something about a sequal (no, i Know there is one 150 years in the future) and other stories to the book " Archangel" which was great. I am looking forward to this book
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