Search - The Shape-Changer's Wife

Excellent fantasy that proceeds in such an engaging manner.

Both me and my daughter really enjoyed this book :)

Short, sweet, engaging.

This little book carries you right along through a simple and highly original fairy tale constructed with hauntingly familiar story elements. Wizards, magic, romance, good, evil -- it's all there. Rather than using a cloying "fairy tale" tone, Shinn's writing style is contemporary and unpretentious. I highly recommend this novella.

Brilliant!

A well written and imaginative tale that earned a Locus Award for the author. The story focuses on a young talented wizard named Aubrey who journeys to study with a shape-changer, Glyrenden. He learns the spells, some with the elder wizard's help, others without. As his knowledge grows he realizes, to his horror, that those who inhabit Glyrenden's house have been changed from their original shapes. Puzzling out their original shapes, he discovers that the wizzard's wife whom he loves was once a willow tree in the king's forest. When the wizzard changes one of the king's men into a dog his control breaks and the two wizzards battle. Aubrey, a gentle man, is determined to kill the evil wizzard. The story climaxes to an interesting end that makes one smile. This is a fun and imaginative read - most deserving of the award it won.