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atarbett's review against another edition
adventurous
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
tome15's review against another edition
4.0
Czerneda, Julia E. Hidden in Sight. Web Shifters No. 3. DAW, 2003.
Esen, our young but long-lived shape-shifting protagonist, has to decide whether to cut herself off from her human and multi-species connections to hide in safety or figure a way to engage more openly with others and hide in plain sight. Frankly, the story arc of the trilogy ends a little anti-climactically. On the positive side, Czerneda’s ability to create believable, if fantastic, creatures is more apparent than ever, and she does manage to make her readers care about her characters, diverse though they be.
Esen, our young but long-lived shape-shifting protagonist, has to decide whether to cut herself off from her human and multi-species connections to hide in safety or figure a way to engage more openly with others and hide in plain sight. Frankly, the story arc of the trilogy ends a little anti-climactically. On the positive side, Czerneda’s ability to create believable, if fantastic, creatures is more apparent than ever, and she does manage to make her readers care about her characters, diverse though they be.
jawshuwah's review against another edition
5.0
Loved it! Waiting on "Search Image" to come in. There is a lot to love about this book: the continued non-romantic or sexual relationship between our main character and her human companion, a whole under water section with aquatic beings, emotions, interspecies communications and understanding, loss, gain, all the things. Again, I loved it, the whole trilogy was a delight. Julie E. Czerneda is one of my favorite authors, if not my favorite. I claim the "Species Imperative" trilogy as my favorite series, but this is possibly my second fav. Having just finish reading it last night and still high on the fumes of an amazing universe, I think I need a cool down period ( and to read the "Web Shifters Library") before I decided its imaginary ranking in my mind, but it was sooooooo gooooood!
chessakat's review
4.0
Great final installment of the Webshifters trilogy. It's always a pleasure to read books where you really love the protagonist, in this case, Esen-alit-Quar, a shapeshifting web-being who is "young" (and therefore known to be impetuous and hilarious) for her species. Czerneda does a great job dividing the story between Esen's POV and other characters in the story with chapters titled "otherwhere" - this moves the story along well and helps build tension. Admittedly sometimes it gets confusing as the reader tries to keep straight who knows what - but it all works itself out in the end. The love between Esen and Paul is tangible and wonderful. I'll miss these characters now that I've finished the series.
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