Quatrain

Salome is a former Angel Seeker. Long since having sought peace and security far from Windy Point, what will she do when both her greatest enemy and her former love re-enter her life? Kerk is a man both bound and rejected by the strictures of Gold Mountain. When his stepmother’s new husband takes his......more

This was a deeply disappointing collection for me. It doesn't work for two reasons. The first reason is that, to borrow Jo Walton's phrasing, the initial volume in any of Shinn's series always blows me away, then each successive volume is only half as good as the one before. Two of the four novellas......more

This book is a collection of four stories from four different Sharon Shinn worlds. I've read completely through three of the four worlds and thought I might as well finish off even the short stories. 1. Flight. Set in Samaria where angels sing in glorious voices for rain, medicine, and life. We get a......more

Sharon Shinn is one of my favorite contemporary authors because her stories are compelling, her main characters feel like people you know or want to know, and the worlds she creates seem real. In Quatrain, Shinn tells four stories set in four separate worlds. The first--"Flight"--fits into her Samari......more