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Archangel by Sharon Shinn Read and Download Ebook Archangel... Archangel Sharon Shinn PDF File: Archangel... 1 Read and Download Ebook Archangel... Archangel Sharon Shinn Archangel Sharon Shinn And so it came to pass... Through science, faith and force of will, the Harmonics carved out for themselves a society that they conceived of as perfect. Diverse peoples held together by respect for each other and the prospect of swift punishment if they disobeyed their laws. Fertile land that embraced a variety of climates and seasons. Angels to guard the mortals and mystics to guard the forbidden knowledge. Jehovah to watch over them all... But an age of corruption has come to the land, threatening their peace and placing the Samarians in grave danger. Their only hope lies in the crowning of a new Archangel. The oracles have chosen for this honor the angel named Gabriel, and further decreed that he must first wed a mortal woman named Rachel. It is his destiny and hers. And Gabriel is certain that she will greet the news of her betrothal with enthusiasm, and a devotion to duty equal to his own. Rachel, however, has other ideas... Archangel Details Date : Published April 1st 1997 by Ace (first published May 1st 1996) ISBN : 9780441004324 Author : Sharon Shinn Format : Mass Market Paperback 400 pages Genre : Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction, Paranormal, Angels, Fiction Download Archangel ...pdf Read Online Archangel ...pdf Download and Read Free Online Archangel Sharon Shinn PDF File: Archangel... 2 Read and Download Ebook Archangel... From Reader Review Archangel for online ebook Lauren (Shakespeare & Whisky) says "And if I should leave you, for any reason," he added, tightening his grip as she struggled to free her hand, "I will return to you. That is as certain as the sun rising tomorrow morning and the thunderbolt falling tomorrow night. That is as sure as the god's existence. I will come back to you, or I will find you - over and over again, as often as we are parted, until the end of the world itself.” 3.5 Stars A sci-fi masquerading as fantasy about angels in an alternative universe before any of that was cool. Delightfully sex positive, allows the protagonist to consider the possibility of adultery after her forced marriage and portrays a realistic way for such a difficult relationship to evolve into a touching romance. "Everybody's afraid of love, because love is what hurts the most.” That probably sums up the thematic tone of the novel. It explores various relationships and how our history and hang-ups shape and distort them. I enjoyed it. It was definitely ahead of it's time. Some readers may have a problem with the main character's behaviour. She doesn't try to please the love interest and wants freedom. I read some reviews prior to reading which complained that she was selfish. I disagree. This is a result of a chronic pattern of trivialising serious power differentials between love interests in romances for the sake of a swoony plot. The reality is that the main character is traumatised, enslaved and then handed over as chattel to her soon-to- be husband. I wouldn't feel grateful or romantically inclined either. She has her own desires and prioritises them over the needs of the husband she didn't want to marry. Seems pretty reasonable to me. The gradual development of their relationship was touching. BUT... The book includes a magic rufie that women can use on men. One male character expresses distress about it and everyone else smiles wryly and shrugs... what the fuck. Not cool. NOT COOL. This is Potter-level reverse rape culture and it sucks. If you can stomach that and enjoy it despite that aspect, the novel is a unique and enjoyable read. JG says I can't do this anymore. I refuse to suffer like this. PDF File: Archangel... 3 Read and Download Ebook Archangel... I'm sad to say, but the heroine is an immature, biased, spiteful bitch. Can somebody please smack some sense into her! Please! She's ruining the whole story! Everytime she does something good, she ruins it by being such a stubborn bitch! The concept of angels and God is intriguing but all of those thing is overshadowed by how immature the freaking heroine is! Does she have to be so hateful? Does she have to be angry and bitter and UGHGGGGHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! . I CANNOT STAND HER!! God somebody smack her in the face with an iron bat! I was half way through when I just can't stand it! The book, no matter how beautifully written suddenly became mundane and annoying. No saving grace can salvage the whole book from the heroine. She's unreasonable, selfish, hateful, shrew! She takes and demands and never gives. She never tries to understand, she just assume she knows. How old is this girl? You sure she's 25? Cause she's acting like my spoiled 5 year old brother! To be fair with her, I gave her chances. Thousands and thousands of chances. I gave her half of the book to freaking change, to grow . Did she? No! I'm baffled by how much people actually love this! I can't overlook how stubborn the heroine is. I can't. She's the life of the story. She's the plot maker. Well the plot maker is annoying! *breathe* I probably should stop bitching by now. Wendy Darling says Because Sarah J. Maas told me to. Plus SWOON, I hear. :D Tadiana ✩Night Owl? says Angel/human romance amid angel political conspiracies and power plays. "On hiatus" is a nice way of saying "this book was a DNF for me but I think I may go back and try to finish it sometime." If I didn't actually own this book, though, I'd probably just mark it DNF and give it up. When Sharon Shinn is on, she's a great fantasy author, but I'm finding that I don't care for everything she writes. Enough people like this that she's written at least 5 books in this series, so maybe it's just me. Anoolka says About 60 pages in the book drew me in and it was a very fast and pleasant read. Good writing style. There PDF File: Archangel... 4 Read and Download Ebook Archangel... were moments where I was slightly annoyed with Rachel for being stubborn for stubborness sake. She admited often that she did thinks purely to be contrary and after awhile that gets tiresome. Over all I did like her. The plot was interesting, the other characters as well and the setting has a lot of promise in this weird religious/sci-fi way. I didn't terribly like that the Edori were universally good and the Janisai universally bad. The last pages were the worst. It seemed uneven - after the climax, and yet still prolonging the resolution. Gabriel apparently needed to be humbled and I'd say his character journey went smoothly, Rachel's- not so much. I started with a lot of sympathy for her, given her background, but she didn't seem to try to get along. After years as a slave it is understandable that she'd have a lot of pent up anger and that she'd be a little more egocentric and unwilling to submit to others but I have my limits for such characters. So my appreciation of the characters wavered. I didn't like Gabriel at first but his progress was well drawn and I liked him in the end, while Rachel - with her I had at points wanted to strangle her and at others to cheer her on, but it ended on a sour note. I understand she had a hard background and needed to go through a more complicated emotional journey but I would have like for her to have reached some conclusions about what she really wanted earlier. (I hated the Adam thing). And so I'd give it a 3.5. Slow beginning, great middle, poor ending. Laura says 4.5 ???? "Only the strong are put through the fire" Josiah said. "And the forge creates things of great strength and beauty." I resented both Rachel and Gabriel at the beginning of the story, but ended up loving them in the end. The story kept me engaged till the very end and even though, most of the time, the 'what will happen' was pretty obvious, the 'how it will come to pass' was intriguing and beautiful. I loved the religion and the music. The structure of the society is original and absolutely believable. And the characters have depth and complexity. I'll deffinitely go on with the series. Lightreads says Oh, you know, it’s your typical book about another planet where an angel rescues a woman from slavery and forces her to marry him because his god/an AI told him to. Oh, and he wears leather. The angel, not the AI. This is actually not as batshit as I’m making it sound, though it’s still decidedly . Pernlike. Id vortex or bust, if you know what I mean, and it was mostly a bust for me. I don’t have an arranged marriage kink or an angel kink or any of the other seventeen kinks this book was hurling at me. And it could never quite decide if it was a clumsy little young adult bit of wanking, or something else. I mean, be silly wanking if you want, I PDF File: Archangel... 5 Read and Download Ebook Archangel... don’t judge, just actually be it, or decide not to be it.
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