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Title: A magnificent book and world
Review: Sharon Shinn creates a world and a theology in the introduction; the reader has a God's-eye view of the lovers Gabriel and Rachel. There are so many good things about this book I hardly know which virtue to start with: a totally believable, no-holes precept; feisty lovers; world salvation or destruction; multitudinous themes and discussions on the true nature of freedom, slavery, duty, peacefulness. Mostly, though, I thought all of the setting and the issues besetting Samaria were secondary to the friction/fire between the two star-crossed lovers. 'Archangel' is a love story first and a fantasy/science fiction novel second. Mesmerizing, subtle in its observations about human psychology and motivations, written by an author in full command of her considerable powers.
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