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This wasn't a bad book, but it could have been so much better than it was. Sanchia had all these thieving skills, but we barely got to see her use them. Sanchia gave hints of being a very strong and skilled and interesting character, and even though she was a protagonist I felt like her personality was watered down and underutilized. The "Sanchia is the best pickpocket and she's going to steal this for us" plot was really more of a small subplot, and the main plot was Lion and Sanchia, which was so much less interesting. I felt like in general the plot was a bit all over the place - sometimes things just came completely out of nowhere, and the statue plot would disappear for chapters at a time and then reappear as if it really was the main plot. Finally, I really didn't like Lion very much - he read like a stereotypical 90s-romance-novel-alpha-male, aka he was kind of rape-y and not all that nice. Maybe if I had liked him more I would've been more interested in their relationship.


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The Wind Dancer Iris Johansen 9780553589139 Books Reviews

I loved how THE 3 very different periods in time were pulled together around a piece of art THE WIND DANCER. It was also quite satisfying to read about the way a family feels about that piece of art in relation to their family. Of course, none of this would be important if Iris Johansen was less skilled in her storytelling! Each of books pulled me into the story in the first few pages!
This is the first in the wind dancer trilogy (The Wind Dancer, Storm Winds--and the contemporary, Reap the Wind) and it is amazing--truly a "keeper" romance, one you'll read and re-read.

Set in early 16th century northern Italy (1503), it tells the story of Lionello Andreas oldest son of an Italian family that has held as its most treasured possession a small golden statue of the winged horse Pegasus that, according to legend, was given to their family at the fall of Troy. The statue, known as the Wind Dancer, has been stolen from their city state of Mandara by Lion's enemy, Francisco Damari. In his effort to recover the statue, Lion decides to hire a thief and travels with his erstwhile companion, Lorenzo, to Florence where he buys a 16 year old slave girl, Sanchia, who is known an an expert at lifting men's gold. Lion quickly realizes he wants more from the brave and clever young woman than her thieving talents and takes her as his mistress. Believing she has no ability to resist, she complies as any good slave would. Then she helps Lion steal the key to the place the statue is being kept, but in the process and in an act of great courage, Sanchia leads Damari away from Lion only to be captured by the demented and sadistic man. By the time Lion recovers her, she has been tortured and believes Lion did not honor his promise not to leave without her. As a result, she now believes her debt to Lion has been paid and demands her freedom. But Lion, whose feelings for her have grown into an obsession, doesn't want to let her go.

This is a story of passionate love, of finding love in an unlikely place and then denying it when honor would suggest another path be taken. The story is well told, the dialog gripping and the twists and turns complex. You will feel like you are there in Renaissance Italy. The physical relationship between Lion and Sanchia is explosive and sensual and Johansen does a superb job of describing it. Like a tapestry with many threads coming together, Johansen has woven many lives into the story in a convincing manner. She has also created (once again) a great cast of secondary characters with their own passions and unique qualities. Lorenzo Vasaro, Lion's stalwart friend and an assassin with a jaded past and a wisdom that insists reality be pursued even if costly, adds a richness to the tale. I highly recommend this one!
The basic story is o.k. but Johansen has filled the book with so many sex scenes that she has made sex boring. I've read about 15 of Johansen's books and this was the worst.
most people who lived during this period of time were illiterate, and had little knowledge of the extended world around them. Sanchia made reference to a variety of artists and people in history that the general, unschooled person would never know about, let alone a slave. When she decided that "no one was going to own her", I started to laugh. Totally implausible at that time. The writer was inserting her beliefs based on current time. It was an easy read, but just not plausible. I've never been disappointed in an Iris Johansen book...til now.
The Lion has need of a very good thief, so he buys one. One with baggage, he finds she comes with burdens he must take care of if he wants her help. In settling her problems he finally see her cleaned up and naked and discovers she is a woman not a girl. A woman who makes him think of the Wind Dancer. The statue he must get back to his family. It has been theirs for centuries and he can't be the one to lose it. Their can be nothing more important to him.
Shasha is a girl who has lived as a slave all her life. But an unusual slave one who lives by her wits and excellent memory. One who has taken on the burden of three others and learned the art of thievery to support them, when her master won't feed them.
The Lion and Shasha together are a team to write history about. They are all most destroyed, by their enemies. Face plaque, and the rack, the maze, and devastation. They find strength together that neither would have had apart. And it all is because of the Wind Dancer! And it's place in history.
This wasn't a bad book, but it could have been so much better than it was. Sanchia had all these thieving skills, but we barely got to see her use them. Sanchia gave hints of being a very strong and skilled and interesting character, and even though she was a protagonist I felt like her personality was watered down and underutilized. The "Sanchia is the best pickpocket and she's going to steal this for us" plot was really more of a small subplot, and the main plot was Lion and Sanchia, which was so much less interesting. I felt like in general the plot was a bit all over the place - sometimes things just came completely out of nowhere, and the statue plot would disappear for chapters at a time and then reappear as if it really was the main plot. Finally, I really didn't like Lion very much - he read like a stereotypical 90s-romance-novel-alpha-male, aka he was kind of rape-y and not all that nice. Maybe if I had liked him more I would've been more interested in their relationship.