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USA Today best-selling author Claire Delacroix gives readers a revisionist version of the medieval legend of Melusine. USA Today best-selling author Lynn Kurland's trademark style shines in this tale of the magic and medieval romance between two lovers.
World Fantasy Award-winner Patricia A. McKillip tells of an artist's model and the transforming power of beauty and inspiration.
National best-selling author Sharon Shinn offers a compelling romance set in a strange new off-world of angels and revolving around the pursuit of love.
The very thrill of love comes dazzlingly to life when these four shining stars or romance and fantasy weave their own web of magic for their legions of fans.
About the Author
Patricia A. McKillip is a winner of the World Fantasy Award, and the author of many fantasy novels, including The Riddlemaster of Hed trilogy, Stepping from the Shadows, and The Cygnet and the Firebird. She lives in Oregon.
Sharon Shinn is a journalist who works for a trade magazine. Her first novel, The Shapechanger's Wife, was selected by Locus as the best first fantasy novel of 1995. She has won the William C. Crawford Award for Outstanding New Fantasy Writer, and was twice nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. A graduate of Northwestern University, she has lived in the Midwest most of her life.
HARRY could not get the goat to stay still. Read the first page
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4.0 out of 5 stars
four well-written romantic fantasies,
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This review is from: To Weave a Web of Magic (Paperback)
Patricia McKillip. Artist Harry Waterman feels like a failure because he lacks a muse to motivate him. That changes when Medusa calls him from a painting he drew. She plans to inspire him by pointing to a model Jo who vanished.Lynn Kurland. Using a cloaking spell, part Elfin Maher flees from her father because she refuses to wed her sire's choice of a spouse for her. Her father Robert wants to forge an alliance with Hagarth through his daughter. She refuses and seeks the help of King Harold to learn how to use a book of spells she possesses. However, her father insists she is a valuable asset to further his ambitions. Sharon Shinn. In Samaria, Jesse the fallen angel desires the young Manadavvi woman who returns his love. However, her mother insists her family is too important to have her marry a loser insisting the daughter will wed into a wealthy family or the next Archangel. Claire Delacroix. An elderly woman overhears two gossips discuss Melusine, a demon who chose to live in the mortal world to cast her evil influence on Raymond who she married and had ten children with him. The old woman informs the two women that Melusine came to this world out of love for Raymond. Is she a malevolent devil or a female in love? All four well-written romantic fantasies contain solid lead characters though in a couple of the tales the antagonist pales in comparison. Sub-genre fans will appreciate the quartet as all fun to read. Harriet Klausner
3.0 out of 5 stars
Some Stories Good, Some Not,
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This review is from: To Weave a Web of Magic (Paperback)
Lynn Kurland and Sharon Shinn wrote beautiful stories -- and good reading. I've read all of Kurland's other books and this one was nice, too. I've never read Shinn, but I am going to start. I love her angel world.The other stories were a disappointment. The last one had a sad ending -- nobody was happy. The romance soured and they all lived horribly ever after. Byuk! The first story was almost a romance. It was more a story of falling out of infatuation than falling in love. Read this for Kurland and Shinn, but skip the other two stories.
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Four Adult Fairy Tale Romances,
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These four adult fairy tales are wonderful. Full of fun and fantasy. These are not erotic fairy tales, but wonderful journeys into the realms of myths, magic, and monsters. Sometimes the monsters are human.This was an exquisite experience. Each tale is very different, but all four are good. As with any good fairy tale the is a lesson to be learned in each. In one we have a painter who can't see what is really before his eyes. In two (my favorite) we have a delightful Lynn Kurland story, that reminds us sometimes our loved ones are not who we think they are. In three we find a world where angels are real and have a day to day relationship with man. In four one of the fey finds that being human is more than the flesh we wear. This book was like a breath of fresh air. Enjoy.
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