Archangel review
Feb. 11th, 2007 12:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearMy love affair with Sharon Shinn's books continues with the Samaria series, the first of which is Archangel.
As with the other books of hers that I've read, it has a wonderfully detailed world people by interested and well-drawn characters. The mystery of the god who watches over Samaria is incredibly obvious once you see it, but it wasn't until I'd described the premise to Dave that the answer clicked.
The villain was a little disappointing in being rather too cliched in his approach, but he met a nasty end during the climax so hopefully he'll be replaced by more interesting adversaries in the rest of the series.
I'm assuming that the god mystery is going to play a larger part in later books, as it wasn't really addressed in this first one, which will add an extra dimension to an already fascinating and very engaging story.
Plus, any book that has a black-haired, blue-eyed angel as its hero is bound to be my kind of book!
As with the other books of hers that I've read, it has a wonderfully detailed world people by interested and well-drawn characters. The mystery of the god who watches over Samaria is incredibly obvious once you see it, but it wasn't until I'd described the premise to Dave that the answer clicked.
The villain was a little disappointing in being rather too cliched in his approach, but he met a nasty end during the climax so hopefully he'll be replaced by more interesting adversaries in the rest of the series.
I'm assuming that the god mystery is going to play a larger part in later books, as it wasn't really addressed in this first one, which will add an extra dimension to an already fascinating and very engaging story.
Plus, any book that has a black-haired, blue-eyed angel as its hero is bound to be my kind of book!
