The Time Weaver
A Novel
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3.6 • 17 Ratings
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- $6.99
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
From award-winning author Shana Abé comes the fifth novel in her paranormal Drákon series—featuring a glittering world of supersensual creatures that can shape-shift from human to smoke to dragon.
Honor Carlisle may have been born into the drákon clan but she’s always felt like a stranger to her kin—an intuition that proves true when she discovers that she is a Time Weaver: a creature with the extraordinary ability to transport herself into the past or future.
On one of her Weaves into the future, Honor encounters the very man she should most avoid: Alexandru of the Zaharen, prince of a rival tribe of drákon. As the two surrender to a desire that brings the present and future ever closer, they also risk fulfilling a terrible prophecy. Now Honor and Sandu must place their trust—and their lives—in each other’s hands, and their faith in a magical love that could restore order to the drákon universe—or destroy it forever.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Ab s fifth Dr kon fantasy romance (after 2009 s The Treasure Keeper) introduces Honor Carlisle, whose time-traveling powers help her fit into a dragon society hidden in the midst of 18th-century England. In an original and ambitious spin on time travel stories, Honor is at once the heroine and, from a future time line, the nemesis who drives the plot. The slow revelation of why and how such a sympathetic character could turn against her values adds dramatic tension, and the dr kon s well-meant efforts to avert tragedy lead them to horrific expedients, making a welcome change from stock villains. Despite occasional purple prose and an unsatisfying ending precipitated by a third party who forces resolution on the conflicted protagonists, this story delivers a real sense of wonder.
Customer Reviews
So many things wrong with this book…
Someone needs to get the author a map…Spain has a coast on the Mediterranean, not the Caribbean…this was really confusing until I realized the author didn’t have a grasp on geography.
After reading 5 books…there seems to be no rhyme or reason to the “gifts” the drakon receive…literally reading between the lines is a gift? Seriously?! A lot of the world building and rules of magic make absolutely no sense and seem at the total whim of the author.
And how can you have any empathy for most of these characters, some of whom I liked in earlier books? They’re willing to commit genocide. Many of the main characters are portrayed as just heartless…Rue and Kit just walk away from everyone, even their children. Maricara could care less about her brother and her people. Zane threatens a teenage girl and his wife, Lia, is ok with the knowledge that he’d kill the girl without remorse.
As far as I’m concerned, all of the above makes the characters/protagonists and the book irredeemable. Stop at book 4!