Search - Heart of Gold

An exploration of race, class, gender, politics, hate and love. What more could one ask for?

I have really been enjoying Sharon Shinn books. So I thought I'd give this one a try. It's more a Sci-Fi book with the focus on two races and cultures that live on the same planet. The Indigo and Gulden people have lived with disagreements and turmoil until the City was built so both races could live together. It has brought some mutual peace, but troubles still brew.

Nolan is an Indigo man that has been taught that his place is to get married and have children. Kit is an Indigo woman that was raised with the Gulden people. Both find themselves saving their people from total extinction through a mutual sharing of respect.

I enjoyed this book, but seem to like Sharon Shinn's fantasy a bit more. Bioengineering and germ warfare are just not my style as much as spells, horses, and castles.

This was a great book. The world building was superb and unique, and the characters reeled me in and didn't let go.

Nolan was a scientist by nature... he used his rational powers of observation to examine more closely the privileges he was born to enjoy - and the people he was raised to despise.

Kitrini was a rebel at heart... she followed her fiercest passions in the sruggle to overthrow a legacy of hate - one that had poisoned her family for generations.

On a planet divided... between rich and poor, strong and weak, intellect and feeling, only one thing could bring these two opposites together: a strictly forbidden desire.

For justice. For equality. For each other.

"Explores the complex struggles of decent people caught in a web of deceit and treachery as they discover the common ground that underlies superficial differences..." - Library Journal