Angel-Seeker: A Novel of Samaria - Hardcover

Shinn, Sharon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0441011349 ISBN 13: 9780441011346

Publisher: Ace Books, 2004

Synopsis

Forced to live as a servant in her cousin's household, the once-wealthy Elizabeth, determined to transform her life, journeys to Cedar Hills in the hope that she can attract the attention of an angel, while Rebekah, a member of the Jansai tribe who has been raised to hate the angels, comes to the aid of an injured angel near her village, in the sequel to Archangel. 15,000 first printing.

About this title

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.

From Publishers Weekly:

The lack of music as well as emotional depth mars Shinn's otherwise engaging, romance-filled tale of strong, capable women, the fifth entry in her popular Samaria series. The action immediately follows that of the first book, Archangel (1996), as new leadership rebuilds Samaria. The angel Obadiah, central to the reconstruction plan, is struck from the sky by an unseen enemy. Wounded, he drags himself to a desert oasis, where rebellious Rebekah, sequestered from men like all Jansai women, defies her tribe and secretly cares for him. Rebekah later encounters Obadiah when she attends a fair dressed as a boy and they begin an intrigue. Meanwhile, Elizabeth, born to a life of privilege, has fallen on hard times. Longing for a return to luxury, she flees to an angel hold to become an angel-seeker, one of many women who desire to attract an angel and bear an angel child, since such a liaison guarantees a comfortable existence in the angel hold. The two women's stories bring them inexorably to a meeting. The music so important to Samaria doesn't ring out—neither of the women sings—and with three protagonists and two love stories, the novel covers perhaps too much ground. Still, Shinn smoothly blends the romantic sensibility of yesteryear with the feminism of today, all in a richly textured landscape.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Ace Books
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0441011349
• ISBN 13: 9780441011346
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 496