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Shatterwing: Dragon Wine Part One Kindle Edition

by Donna Maree Hanson (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.6 3.6 out of 5 stars 256 ratings
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Deliciously Dark Fantasy
"Shatterwing has all the fantasy ingredients I love: tormented heroes, a truly twisted villain - and a brand new take on dragons!" Glenda Larke, (award winning author of The Stormlord Trilogy)

"Dark and compelling, with strong characters and a sense of grim inevitability that pulls you along with the story." Craig Cormick, (award-winning author of the Shadow Master Series.)

The world of Margra is a desolate wasteland after one of its moons shattered. Factions fight over resources as pieces of the broken moon rain down, bringing chaos, destruction and death.
Dragon wine is a life giving drink imbued with the essence of dragons. It is what keeps people alive. But the prison vineyard where Salinda works to grow grapes is in jeopardy. Not only does the Inspector, the sadistic ruler of the prison vineyard, make her life and the life of others a misery, he wants to rule the world by hoarding all the dragon wine. But Salinda has a secret power, an ancient gift called a’ cadre’, that may one day save the world.
When the Inspector suspects that Salinda has secrets, she may have to die to protect the cadre from falling into his hands…
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"Shatterwing has all the fantasy ingredients I love: tormented heroes, a truly twisted villain - and a brand new take on dragons!" Glenda Larke, (award winning author of The Stormlord Trilogy)

"Dark and compelling, with strong characters and a sense of grim inevitability that pulls you along with the story." Craig Cormick, (award-winning author of the Shadow Master Series.)

About the Author

Donna Maree Hanson is an Australian author of fantasy and science fiction.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B071FGFTNL
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Donna Maree Hanson; 2nd edition (May 22, 2017)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 22, 2017
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1357 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 248 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.6 3.6 out of 5 stars 256 ratings

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Donna Maree Hanson is a traditionally and independently published author of fantasy, science fiction and horror. She also writes paranormal romance under the pseudonym of Dani Kristoff. In April 2015, she was awarded the A. Bertram Chandler Award for ‘Outstanding Achievement in Australian Science Fiction’ for her work in running science fiction conventions, publishing and broader SF community contribution. Donna writes dark fantasy (the Dragon Wine series), epic fantasy (the Silverlands series), steampunk (the Cry Havoc series) and young adult science fiction (Space Pirate Adventures) as well as short stories across the speculative fiction genre. Her short story collection, Beneath the Floating City was shortlisted for an Aurealis Award in 2017. Her new novel, Awakening (2022), is science fiction with romance and the first in a proposed series.

In 2022, Donna completed her PhD candidature, researching Feminism in Popular Romance at the University of Canberra, Her degree was awarded on 30 March 2023. Donna lives in Canberra with her partner and fellow writer Matthew Farrer.

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3.6 out of 5 stars
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Sugar B
5.0 out of 5 stars Really fascinating story, can't wait to read more.
Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2016
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I can't wait to read the next book. The story grabbed me from the beginning and the characters are intriguing. I haven't read anything like this and I hope that there is lots more to this series. I gave it 5 stars cuz I really enjoyed it and I hope that you will too.
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Jade Campbell
4.0 out of 5 stars MY FEAR WAS PALPABLE . .
Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2014
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This book has the promise of an Epic series, some excellent descriptive sequences and by the second chapter the story was falling into place.
As the story advances the complexities of plot and form unravel unexpectedly, causing you to engage physically- catching yourself glancing behind in fear- whilst keeping you reading at a furious pace, not many books take me out of reality for a moment or two.

All I ask the author is that the next book in the series doesn't keep me awake at night . .
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Looking forward to reading more of this authors work, loved the understated cover too - not giving away much here.
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Kat Smith
3.0 out of 5 stars 2.5 stars - I liked the world, the second part was better, But I wish there had beenless violence.
Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2014
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##2.5 out of 5 stars##

*** I received this book from the Publisher in exchange for an honest review ***
I give this book

I struggled reading this book, I kept putting it down, starting something else then I would have another crack at it.

So I have put off writing the review for a while so I could deliberate how to write this review.

So I have decided to split it into 3 parts:

First the Writing style...

With me struggling with it when I like to read Fantasy/paranormal I have come to the conclusion that part of the problem was the way its written. I think the Author has gone for a more complicated dialogue, I am assuming because its set on another world but the first part of the book and plot was often dragging, and not much is happening, other than the characters tending the vines or being tortured. I could only manage to read a chapter or two and then I would need to stop, and this leads me to part 2.

The Plot...

Well I wouldn't have said yes to reviewing this book if the plot line hadn't intrigued me - BUT and I know I am not the only reviewer that has expressed this... There is TOO MUCH RAPE in this book, its not necessary, and to be honest after the first passage I put the book down and didn't read it for another few days.

But I don't like not reading a book I have been given for free to review and I also needed to know what was going to happen, why Salinda was continuing at the vineyard, why she stuck up for Brill.

ALSO the synopsis doesn't tell you that there are actually 2 separate story lines in this book and when I got to Part 2 I finally got interested, and the writing style got much easier to read, maybe because now there was something happening other than brutality, rape and drudgery??

But all too soon, we end up with our MC's being captured and awaiting more heinous atrocity's to happen, and then we are left with lots of unanswered questions and needing book 2.

And onto part 3 of my review.

The Characters...
Salinda - our first character we get to know, shes surviving any way she knows how, but I still could not feel any empathy for her - in fact I couldn't get to feel anything for any character, which is very unusual for me.

Brill - he is the son of a Rebel leader, and honestly what the Author does to him was hard to read, but still I didn't feel anything for him.

The Guards and Inspector, the sadistic ruler of the prison vineyard, well he was as sadistic as you can imagine - and boy has the author got a vicious imagination when it comes to torturing and raping her characters, and I read Dark Romance books so I have read some dark stuff, but this was just Rape for Rapes sake, I feel that it was entirely unnecessary and the story could have been just as interesting if the Editor had cut out these scenes all together.

My favourite character - THE DRAGON! why Salinda didn't tell the dragon to eat The Inspector I do not know!

In Part 2 we meet Nils a long lost inhabitant of an underground city who had been imprisoned in a Cryo-sleep chamber and who wakes up thousands of years later instead of his actual prison term, he finds that his entire race is now extinct and sets off to find out what happened to the world while he slept, on his travels he meets Salinda and helps her.

We also meet Garan a 'Sky Watcher' who is tasked to rescues a girl (Laiden) that his order have deemed extremely important and needs to be brought to the Sky Watchers for the good of the world. Now these characters I got more into, for once the Fantasy of the lost civilization was described with more depth and feeling. But all too soon the story takes a more violent turn.

In conclusion:

Overall, this was an okay book if you do not mind your fantasy with a good dose of Rape and constant violence against women and the weak, the World that the Author has described is a good setting for the fantasy to evolve on, but the constant violence to the main characters are enough not to make me give this book a 3 and I am not sure I want to read SkyWatcher.

Many thanks to Momentum for giving me the opportunity to read this book.
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Mrdman
5.0 out of 5 stars Shattering another world
Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2017
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This story reminds me of the dragons of Pern for some reason. Even though they are not in partnership with people they will have a way of saving and restoring humanity I hope. A good read and want more.
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Fussy about Grammar
2.0 out of 5 stars Intriguing, but I won't be reading the sequels
Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2017
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I read this book because it was featured in the FREE offerings of the day and it looked interesting. I'm not reading the rest of the series because:
1. I don't like books that are split up into a series when (in my opinion) they are really just one book. This book tells the story for so many pages/words and then just stops with no resolution of any kind. It is no different than putting down a book I'm reading when I'm about half done with it and everything has been set up to look hopeless, and then left there. I don't even like books that wrap up the current story but go ahead and start the next one in the series in order to end with a cliff hanger. To my way of thinking, the writing should be good enough to encourage readers to go on to the next book. They shouldn't have to be pushed into it with a cliff hanger.
2. The graphic violence is relentless. It goes on and on and is so detailed. Someone who really gets off on horrible violence would no doubt enjoy it, but I don't see the purpose to make it so extreme and have so much of it.
3. The women all seem weak, what few there are. They are constantly being attacked by men and having to be rescued as they apparently have no imagination or skill to take care of themselves.

On the plus side, the setting is intriguing. I would like to know more background about the different groups of beings who have been introduced and the world in which they are living. The writing style makes it easy to visualize what's going on, and I'm curious about any connections that I expect exist between the different groups--the underground race (Heim), the "sundwellers", the "skywatchers". I think the whole idea has a lot of potential, and I would have loved to continue reading if it weren't for the negatives itemized above.
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T. Crum
1.0 out of 5 stars Way to Violent with graphic rape scenes
Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2017
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The story line seemed quite interesting and the characters full of depth, but I couldn’t get past how sexually violent and disturbing it was. Rape and sodomy were vividly described, repeatedly. I read for pleasure. If I wanted to immerse myself in such disgusting acts of sexual assault I’d just watch the news instead. Never got past the beginning of the book.
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Stan Marshall
4.0 out of 5 stars Different
Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2021
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Pretty good but quite different from the usual fantasy book. I enjoyed the story and getting to know the characters
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JonseyW
3.0 out of 5 stars MA... not bad
Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2017
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It was a very original story and I enjoyed that. But there was too much torture and references to sexual torture for my.The plot became a little murky with the addition of another main character.
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Betty Brown
5.0 out of 5 stars Captivating
Reviewed in Australia on June 20, 2017
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Really good plot that captivates
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K. Bridges
4.0 out of 5 stars An easy read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 23, 2015
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There are two moons on Magra, but one is not whole. When Ruel moon broke apart, it changed the planet irreversibly. Nils of the Hiem was exiled to spend 100 years asleep. Four thousand years later, he awakes to find everything is different. Meanwhile, Brill is sent to the prison vines as an assistant to Salinda. The vines produce grapes which are fertilised with dragon manure. Dragon wine is not all it seems and there are plenty of people who would like to get their hands on it. Nils, Salinda, Brill and others must work together to ensure they don't!

I like the premise of this book. I enjoy fantasy novels where most of the work is rooted in reality, it certainly helps me to have sympathy with the characters. Equally, I really liked a lot of the characters here. I found Nils particularly interesting, and even the not so nice people were well fleshed out and well described.

The one thing about this book that I did not like was that it is clearly not a whole story. It reaches a certain point and then stops dead. I started reading the next book immediately and it just picks up straightaway from where it was. "Shatterwing" is not a particularly long novel so I don't see why it needed to be divided into two and I did find that a frustration. Nevertheless, I have enjoyed reading it and will be continuing to read the rest of the story in however many books it comes in!
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Ross H
4.0 out of 5 stars Well worth reading
Reviewed in Australia on August 12, 2015
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Shatterwing is a fantasy but there are also aspects which are closer to science fiction. Combining fantasy and sci fi is always a risky business as the two seem to be rather contradictory in nature, despite sci fi being a subset of the overall genre of the fantastic. To Donna’s credit, she has achieved a good balance between the two, something that in my experience few authors manage to do when attempting such a combination.

At the heart of any good story are the characters, their journey, their motivations etc. And Shatterwing certainly fits that mould. Two quite different protagonists in different lives find themselves drawn into circumstances that they most certainly did not want, a classic aspect of Campbell’s Hero’s Journey model of story telling. Well worth reading.
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SAC
2.0 out of 5 stars Only read three
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 27, 2017
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Definitely didn't grab my attention, only read three chapters, did not get them at all...
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