The Shape-Changer's Wife
by Sharon Shinn
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Author: Sharon ShinnEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1995-10-01
ISBN: 0441002617
Number of pages: 200
Publisher: Ace
Book Reviews of The Shape-Changer's Wife
Book Review: Wish I Owned it in Hardcover
Summary: 5 Stars
In 1997, Sharon Shinn and I were both nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. I remember sitting nervously beside her at a panel in honor of all five of the nominees, given before the award's winner was announced. She seemed cool, elegant, and intelligent. I sat there beside her, focused on my own writing, my own book, hoping that I seemed MORE cool, elegant, and intelligent. I'd heard her book was good, but I certainly hadn't had time yet to read it...But.... it's four years later and I finally got around at least to reading The Shape-Changer's Wife. And now I know: if I didn't win, the Campbell should have gone to Sharon. She is a brilliant, subtle writer, and my guess is that her books are only going to get better, to get deeper, as she goes along. I am truly looking forward to finding the time to start reading her subsequent books.Here, I'll limit myself to comment on the one I've read.
The Shape-Changer's Wife is a wonderful book. It's one for the readers out there who truly love fantasy. It's for the disenchanted readers who are still hoping to be able to open a fantasy novel and lose themselves within. It's also one of those books that should remain in print, available, for any in-coming reader who is discovering how much they love fantasy books.
As a writer, I try to keep down the number of books I own. I try to keep only the books I want to go back to, the books I care to retrieve when I loan them out to friends, the books that I love--or have loved.
Shape-Changer's Wife is one of them. I wish I could own it in hardcover. I guess I'll have to settle for hunting down a first printing.
As for you--track it down. Buy a used copy. Order it up at your local library. E-mail Sharon's publisher and tell them that you love it and you want it back in print.
Support a writer--buy their books!
Summary of The Shape-Changer's Wife
Winner of the William Crawford Award for Achievement in Fantasy.The novel that launched Sharon Shinn's stunning career and inspired Peter S. Beagle to call her "the most promising and original writer of fantasy to come along since Robin McKinley." (Locus)
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