Hey Joanie, Looks like this is the private blog just for you! Now that you've wiped the tears of laughter from the Peeps Pages...consider picking up a Sharon Shinn SAMARIA book.
There are four of them and they are all wonderful! Readership is split between men and women so you won't find her books in the romance aisle. If you're lucky enough to find her books, they'd be in the sci-fi aisle.
ARCHANGEL Introduces us to a world where the inhabitants must meet on the plains (yearly) to sing praises to their god or face wrath--in the form of devastating lightning bolts. In this world angels fly up to the heavens singing to god to heed their prayers. For example...if they pray for rain...rain comes. If they pray for antibiotics...well...that also rains down from the sky in the form of pellets. The angels marry based on finding their true mates....in which case the inside of their arm will light up. In this novel, the newest archangel-to-be (Gabriel) must find his mate before the yearly sing-fest while the old archangel has fallen away from the beliefs. He's really bad!
JOVAH'S ANGEL Set ahead 150 years during a time when Jovah isn't listening to the songs and prayers of the angels. The newest archangel is replacing Delilah who was crippled and now not interested in helping. There's political unrest, worsening weather and Alleya must find her mate before the next Gloria...in 4 short months!
THE ALLELUIA FILES A novel on the history and background of Samaria...two forces battling each other. Is Jovah a god? Or something else? The Alleluia Files supposedly contains the answers to all these questions. Tamar with the help of Jared, a friendly angel, searches for these files.
ANGELICA Samaria is threatened by armed aliens. Susannah is chosen as the next Angelica (mate of the archangel) More on the background of Jovah and Samaria
ANGEL SEEKER The last Samaria novel. Rebekah and Elizabeth's story. A novel of two (or more!) society's colliding....and the struggle to overcome the obstacles to happiness. This one is a love story and possibly my very favorite. It doesn't really further the story-line of the background of the populating of Samaria or the history of Jovah but still a wonderful novel! I guess my point here is that it's truly a stand-alone novel. It can be read or not to get the full flavor of the Samarian series.
All of these books are available through amazon.com used...some as low as a penny!
What I'm reading this week: Diana Gabaldon's time-travel series....the Jamie and Claire story! These are hefty novels...while it usually takes me one night to read a book, each of these have so far taken at least 3 days! I've finished book 3 VOYAGER and have book 4 DRUMS OF AUTUMN and book 5 FIERY CROSS in stock and ready to read!
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I'm still plugging my way through "Three Junes" by Julia Glass. The story is ok, not a page turner by any means but I've been hell-bent on finishing it. I think tonight is the night!
ReplyDeleteI will certainly look for those books, maybe our Borders has them!
I was kind of surprised how much I got into the Samaria books. They were great!
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