#sharon shinn

[goddessofwisdom18]

Darien Serlast from Troubled Waters by Sharon Shinn <3

[waytoooldforthissh]

Hell is really strong feelings about a book with no fandom.

[kaydear]

Samaria I-IV by Sharon Shinn

Archangel, Jovah's Angel, The Alleluia Files, Angelica

[gleephoria]

Okay, I finally finished my re-read of all the Tales of Samaria books by Sharon Shinn (including short stories) and I still really love that world and so many of the characters. I have my gripes but I'm staying positive.

Archangel will always reign supreme because Gabriel is magnificent and the stakes are so tense.

But Jovah's Angel with Alleluia's romance with Caleb is *chef's kiss* and Angelica gives us a very sweet slow burn with Susannah and Gaaron.

My main gripe is there is no fandom. I need angels of Samaria smut, stat!

Because those books left us hanging, lol.

[bookcoversonly]

Title: The Thirteenth House | Author: Sharon Shinn | Publisher: Ace (2007)

[wearethekat]

March Book Reviews: The Shuddering City by Sharon Shinn

I've liked Sharon Shinn books in the past so I picked up this new release from the library. The city of Corcannon hides a terrible secret about the increasingly powerful earthquakes that have been shaking the city. A wealthy young lady, a temple soldier, a wandering guard in charge of a small girl, and a retired priest become entangled in those secrets and with each other's lives in surprising ways.

Sharon Shinn writes fairly predictable but solid and soothing fantasy novels. This wasn't an exception, although I don't think it's one of her better books. Her strength is character writing, and with so many split POVs, we don't spend enough time with any one character to really connect or go deeply into their particular problems

Entertaining but a bit shallow. I'd suggest trying Mystic and Rider or Archangel instead.

[ansacht]

Instead of the same movies and books being remade into movies and series over and over again….can we maybe get any of these?

Summers at Castle Auburn by Sharon Shinn

The Coral Dawn Trilogy by Katherine V Forrest (Daughters of a Coral Dawn, Daughters of an Amber Moon, Daughters of an Emerald Dusk)

Ash by Malinda Lo

Huntress by Malinda Lo

Secondborn Series by Amy Bartol (Secondborn, Traitor Born, Rebel Born)

Of Fire & Stars Series by Audrey Courthurst (Of Fire & Stars, Of Ice and Shadows)

Of Playing the Role of Herself by KE Lane

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Circle of Magic Series by Tamora Pierce (Sandry’s Book, Tris’s Book, Daja’s Book, Briar’s Book)

Should probably tag that some of these are 🌈 gayyyyy in the best way.

[duckielover151]

Not to brush aside the cause like it's unimportant, but you'll see a lot of people talking about how their opinions on JK Rowling have soured (AKA, gone up in flames) since her transphobia has become so public. That is true for me also. But that's not really what this post is about.

Harry Potter was a huge part of my childhood as well. I'll probably always have some sort of lingering fondness for it. But wanting to distance myself from anything that might support the author has also distanced me from her works a bit, and I've come to appreciate recently that I think I'm a lot better for it, just as a person who consumes and enjoys fiction. Fantasy in particular.

I've come to notice this past year just how bad the chokehold is that Harry Potter has on the fantasy genre. If it's not Disney or very clearly influenced by HP in some way, you hardly ever hear about other works published about fictional lands/creatures and magic. They just don't get the same kind of publicity. And there are a lot of good ones. (I've yet to explore Game of Thrones in any medium, but I'm almost proud of it now for managing to get big somehow, because it does sound like an original idea.)

Sharon Shinn is becoming a new favorite of mine. I just recently started her Twelve Houses series, and I'm really enjoying it so far. But she's always stood out to me, because I owned one other book of hers growing up, and it's one of my favorites to this day.

It's called The Safe-Keeper's Secret, and it's very fairy tale-esque. Complete with a fictional land and government, a newborn royal heir being spirited away in the dead of night and hidden in an ordinary village, and a bunch of people with abilities that just cross the line of being magical. It's a really charming tale, and I suggest reading it if you haven't. (As well as its sequel/spin-off, The Truth-Teller's Tale.)

But I think a part of why it's always stood out to me, from all the titles on my shelf, is that it's so different from so much of the other fiction available to me at the time. Bring on the stories that feels like someone's D&D campaign brought to life! The books where the first relevant page isn't the start of chapter one, or a prologue, but a map of the world readers will get to know.

(Seraphina and its sequel Shadow Scale by Rachel Hartman-- A tale of a half-dragon girl connecting with other people like her in a land where that's very taboo-- outlawed to the point where people don't think the existence of human-dragon hybrids is even physically possible-- is another great one.

And I remember loving Catherine Fisher's Snow-Walker series when I was younger too. In that one, a girl and her cousin are exiled because of her father's crimes-- sent to live with the queen's son, who's rumored to be a monster. Except, they get there and discover he actually just has the same powers she does, and she's paranoid he'll overthrow her one day. Three guesses what they plot to do next...)

Please feel free to add onto this post with suggestions of other lesser-known fantasy stories! I'd love to read more of them!

[benedictusantonius]

[2023|104] Archangel (1996) written by Sharon Shinn

[queerhummingbird]

Donnal and Kirra are like lesbians. To me. 

[itmightrain]

Re-reading the thirteenth house

[sunfortune]

can you guys read troubled waters by sharon shinn so we can talk about troubled waters by sharon shinn together i thought the troubled waters by sharon shinn was great

[ashfae]

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Oh MAN right for the gut...okay. Top five books. Excluding plays and poetry, fiction only. In no particular order:

Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold

Small Gods by Terry Pratchett

Tehanu by Ursula K. LeGuin

Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley

Tam Lin by Pamela Dean

Not the best books but ones that have been personally very important, which counts, and now I will post this and RUN before I change my mind fifty times and add on at least another ten or more likely fifty

[kaydear]

[reads another sharon shinn book] love is perhaps real and a desirable thing to acquire, world-saving, vital even—

[glossamerfaerie]

My confidence level does waver sometimes, but not for the endgame ships. It wavers for which book (Elucien or Gwynriel) will be next.

My real-life friends ask me how I’m so confident and… idk. I’ve been reading adult PNR/fantasy romance since 2010. Nalini Singh, Ilona Andrews, Anne Bishop, Grace Draven, Patricia Briggs, Sharon Shinn, Jacqueline Carey, Juliet Marillier… you name it, I’ve read it.

I’ve never been wrong about a future ship or outcome of a love triangle. Never. Even when something has taken years to resolve, I’ve never wavered. I don’t think I’m particularly intelligent; I’ve just been “trained” (so to speak) on how foreshadowing works. Sequel bait is a beautiful, long-honored tradition in romance, even for so-called “love-triangle” books (tbh I barely think the ACOTAR situation counts as one. It’s a half-assed rebound that doesn’t even get off the ground).

So, yeah. Believe and ship what you want; I’ve happily shipped many non-canon pairings while acknowledging that it’ll never be canon. But all my spidey senses are telling me that Gwynriel are mates and endgame. 🤷🏽‍♀️ I can only point to my years of reading experience. Believe it or don’t.

[bookcoversonly]

Title: Mystic and Rider | Author: Sharon Shinn | Publisher: Ace (2006)