Goodreads Summary:
For her entire life, Melanie Landon has hidden the fact that
her halfsister Ann is a shapeshifter—determined to protect Ann from a world that simply wouldn’t understand.
After months of no contact, Melanie fears the worst when a
man shows up on her doorstep saying he’s there about her sister. A freelance writer, Brody Westerbrook intends to include Ann in a book about the existence of shapeshifters. While Melanie is immediately drawn to the stranger, she knows revealing Ann’s secret isn’t an option.
Protecting her sister has always been such an enormous part
of Melanie’s life, but when Ann finally appears looking frail and sick, Melanie must come to grips with the fact that saving her may mean letting go.
Still Life with Shape Shifter is the second book in the
Shifting Circle Series. Even
though it features shape-sifters it is really a story about love, love in all
of its forms. I always call Sharon
Shinn’s stories gently stories.
Don’t look for non-stop action, a lot of sex, or over the top stories. She writes in a very down to earth
style with a lot of character development that builds the story.
Several of the characters for A Shape of Desire are in Still
Life. Dante and Maria are side
characters here but William is one of the main characters. Still Life follows two women,, Janet
and Melanie. Both love a
shape-shifter but in very different ways.
For the most part their lives are separate but both face loving and
losing the person they love. This
is the story of how they face that impending loss.
There are other characters that play a major part in the
novel. Brody is almost too good to
be true. He meets Melanie and has
to work hard to win her trust.
Melanie’s best friend, Debbie is just the kind of best friend everyone
wants to have. Janet also has
friends that supply a support for her.
Each woman’s story is separate and unique but in the end
they meet in a sad but true way.
There is room for future stories in this universe and I hope more are
written.
ACE published Still Life with Shape-Shifter by Sharon Shinn
in 2012.
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