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Posts Tagged ‘Shana-Abe’

Dear Author Recommends for February

By Jane • Feb 4th, 2008 • Category: Letters of Opinion, Misc

Last month, Shana Abé released the third book in the shapeshifting drákon series. At the time of the release, we had not yet read the book. During January, Janine finished Queen of Dragons (The Drakon, Book 3). She loved the characters of the strong-willed hero and heroine and though she [...]



My First Sale by Shana Abé, It Was Either Write or Be a Cocktail Waitress

By Jane • Jan 25th, 2008 • Category: Interviews, Misc

I admit that I never read Shana Abé before the drákon series. Once I had read the Smoke Thief (which is book 1 of the series, the most recent being Abe’s hardcover debut, Queen of Dragons), I had become a hopeless addict. Abe’s blend of history, romance and fantasy was triumphant and exciting. [...]



REVIEW: The Smoke Thief by Shana Abé

By Janine • Nov 20th, 2006 • Category: A Review Category, A- Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Abé,
Imagine a place so ripe and thick with the promise of magic that the very air breathes in plumes of pearl and gray and smoky blue; that the trees bow with the weight of their heavy branches, dipping low to the ground, dropping needles and leaves into beds of perfume. A place [...]



REVIEW: Dream Thief by Shana Abé

By Jane • Oct 13th, 2006 • Category: B Reviews Category, B- Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Abé:
The Dream Thief is a sequel to The Smoke Thief. Lia Langford, the youngest daughter of the Earl of Chasen/Marquess of Langford (one of the two), is a dreamer. She dreams of future events and many of those events involve her lover being pitted against her family, against her friends.
Zane, former [...]