Memory Tower — Terry Persun

For fans of fantasy fiction, fantasy novels with shape shifters and based on Native American totems, animal totems, and other shape shifting totems, such as dragons, crows, thylacines, bears, snakes, horses, gargoyles, harpies, harpys, gryphons, part lion, part eagle. Fantasy novels that are a mystery, suspense, or thriller. Similar to novels with werewolves, these are were-animals like werehorses, weresnakes, werecrows, weredragons, and that sort of thing. There is a war involved, too, where the shape shifters, including dragons, crows, horses, and bears fight against the humans. This is similar to a historic novel for The Great Land, where the book takes place. It's also very much a sword and sorcery novel, where the shape shifters and humans battle in a battlefield where swords are used. The sorcery is mostly in the way of predictions, shamanism, shamans, and other occult happenings done by the dragons, crows, horses, snakes, and other shape shifters. Omens and dreams are also very important in the novel. After all, the crows are psychic and intuitive and can see into other worlds using altered states of consciousness. The main character uses her shamanic abilities, including runes, divination elements, intuition, visions, dreams, etc., to find signs and signatures of what's to come.