Jovah's Angel

by Sharon Shinn

Overview

National bestselling author Sharon Shinn returns to the compelling world of Samaria in an extraordinary novel of angels and mortals, music and mystery, science and faith...

More than a hundred years after the time of Rachel and Gabriel, Samaria is in deep turmoil. Charismatic Archangel Delilah has been injured and forced to give up her position, and she has been replaced by shy, uncertain Alleluia. What’s worse, ungovernable storms are sweeping across the country, and the god never seems to hear the angels’ pleas to abate the bad weather. Unless those prayers are offered by the new Archangel...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101554852
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	04/01/1998
Series:	Angel , #2
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	368
Sales rank:	600,527
File size:	666 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Sharon Shinn is the national bestselling author of the Elemental Blessings novels, as well as the Shifting Circle novels. Her first novel, The Shape-Changer’s Wife, was a nominee for Locus’s Best First Fantasy Novel of 1995. She has won the William L. Crawford Award for Outstanding New Fantasy Writer, and was twice nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. She has also received an RT Book Reviews Reviewers’ Choice Award and won RT Book Reviews’s 2010 Career Achievement Award in the Sci-Fi/Fantasy category.

Editorial Reviews

With angels all the latest rage, Shinn (The Shape-Changer's Wife, LJ 10/15/95) pens another fantasy tale in the Archangel world. After a night of revelry, the reigning archangel breaks her wing and is replaced by Alleluia, a nondescript scholar who must rely on the human Caleb, who believes only in science. Competently done but not exciting; recommended for fantasy collections.

Library Journal

Sequel to Shinn's Archangel (1996), set on colony planet Samaria—the inhabitants of which are watched over by genetically engineered winged angels who intercede with Jovah (regarded as God by the colonists) to improve Samaria's miserable climate. Now, 150 years later, the crippled Archangel Delilah can no longer fly and sing for Jovah's help. Alleya, Delilah's replacement, faces mounting problems. Jovah no longer hears the prayers of the angels, Alleya excepted, so the worsening weather brings vociferous complaints from Samaria's wealthy farmers, landowners, and industrialists. Also, archangels must have mates; via the ancient telecommunications system, Jovah advises Alleya, mystifyingly, to seek "the son of Jeremiah." Meanwhile, she grows increasingly friendly with handsome Caleb, an engineer who might be able to fix the angels' broken-down teaching machines. But when Alleya steels herself to communicate with Jovah, he responds tersely: "Send help." No prizes for guessing what Jovah is, or who Caleb turns out to be.

Despite some fairly obvious plotting, Shinn's appealing scenario is carefully worked out and persuasively peopled; fans of Archangel will be gratified.

Kirkus Reviews