{"id":121,"date":"2002-03-25T23:09:50","date_gmt":"2002-03-26T04:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=121"},"modified":"2002-03-25T23:09:50","modified_gmt":"2002-03-26T04:09:50","slug":"stevermer_carol_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2002\/03\/stevermer_carol_2\/","title":{"rendered":"Stevermer, Caroline: Serpent&#8217;s Egg, The"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"75037021\"><\/a> <a name=\"link_75037021\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong><cite>The Serpent&#8217;s Egg<\/cite> is Caroline Stevermer&#8217;s first fantasy novel<\/strong>, an odd little book that doesn&#8217;t quite satisfy, though it&#8217;s annoyingly difficult to pin down why. Parts of <a href=\"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2002\/03\/wells_martha_el\/\"><cite>The Element of Fire<\/cite><\/a> reminded me of this, but upon re-reading, I realized I was conflating a few different characters. Yes, there&#8217;s a strong queen and a throne in peril from a wicked duke, duels and magic, in a vaguely post-medieval court, but the scale and tone are somewhat different.<\/p>\n<p><cite>The Element of Fire<\/cite> also feels much more vivid to me; there are some promising portions of <cite>The Serpent&#8217;s Egg<\/cite>, but I never really felt that I had a firm grasp on the story&#8212;or it on me, whichever you prefer. Perhaps it is too short, in something of the way that <cite>The Dragon Waiting<\/cite> just skirts being. At any rate, it&#8217;s quite hard to find, so most of my readers won&#8217;t have to worry about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Serpent&#8217;s Egg is Caroline Stevermer&#8217;s first fantasy novel, an odd little book that doesn&#8217;t quite satisfy, though it&#8217;s annoyingly difficult to pin down why. Parts of The Element of Fire reminded me of this, but upon re-reading, I realized I was conflating a few different characters. Yes, there&#8217;s a strong queen and a throne &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2002\/03\/stevermer_carol_2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stevermer, Caroline: Serpent&#8217;s Egg, The&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,15],"tags":[398],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-sf-and-fantasy","tag-stevermer-caroline"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}