tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2976434891520270721.post586927659871838920..comments2020-04-08T08:40:43.691-04:00Comments on Bad Book Habit: Summers at Castle Auburn, by Sharon ShinnAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04885982780022118174noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2976434891520270721.post-89257659988856654922011-11-14T17:12:41.971-05:002011-11-14T17:12:41.971-05:00Ahhhh, The Shapechanger's Wife also rated high...Ahhhh, <i>The Shapechanger's Wife</i> also rated high on the algorithms. I'll have to look into that one! I read the sample, but it didn't go far enough into the story to hook me.<br /><br />I think I read somewhere that <i>Troubled Waters</i> is, in fact, the start of a series. Can't remember any further details than that, though. I haven't read that one yet, myself.<br /><br />Have you read Shinn's Twelve Houses series at all? I read <i>Reader and Raelynx</i>, which comes late in the series, and was not terribly impressed - I can't even remember what it was about, save that there were a lot of hooked-up character pairs that clearly must have had their own books earlier in the series, they were so... intimately written, yet without stated backstory. And I just read the sample for <i>Mystic and Rider</i>, and was similarly not impressed; there was an absurd amount of infodump.<br /><br />But a lot of people seem to really love that series, so I dunno what to think. I could get <i>Mystic and Rider</i> from the public library's Kindle stash, but I'm skeptical about whether I'd enjoy it at all.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04885982780022118174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2976434891520270721.post-65793510845511872482011-11-14T16:56:54.295-05:002011-11-14T16:56:54.295-05:00Ooh, I'll have to read this!
I've been pl...Ooh, I'll have to read this!<br /><br />I've been pleasantly surprised by Shinn's standalone books, though I'm not quite sure why I didn't expect them to be all that compelling. Maybe because the Samaria series ended up being formulaic in ways that kept catching my attention and irritating me (the continual reliance on earthshaking metaphors to describe kisses, eyes lighting up and turning the air under one's wings blue with their intensity, ugh). But _The Shapechanger's Wife_ is melancholic and lovely and perches on the verge of a fairy-tell retelling, but goes in more interesting and original directions by examining marriage through the lens of the fairy tale.<br /><br />I also really enjoyed her _Troubled Waters_, though it feels--while self-contained--very much like the start of a series (each focused on a different element, of course).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com