{"id":201,"date":"2003-03-23T18:03:40","date_gmt":"2003-03-23T23:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=201"},"modified":"2003-03-23T18:03:40","modified_gmt":"2003-03-23T23:03:40","slug":"pierce_tamora_2_3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2003\/03\/pierce_tamora_2_3\/","title":{"rendered":"Pierce, Tamora: (208) Shatterglass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"200033851\"><\/a> <a name=\"link_200033851\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I bought <strong>Tamora Pierce&#8217;s <cite>Shatterglass<\/cite>, the last book in the Circle Opens quartet<\/strong>, while at Boskone, but didn&#8217;t complete a proper read for a while after that. This is as good as the first two, and considerably better than <a href=\"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2002\/03\/pierce_tamora_2_2\/\"><cite>Cold Fire<\/cite><\/a>. This series is structured around two aspects of magework: discovering and teaching one&#8217;s first student, and the use of magic in forensics. In this book, Tris&#8217;s student is a grown man whose skill as a glassblower has been strangely warped after he was struck by lightning. He learns that he has both glass and lightning magic, with a strange precongitive aspect: sometimes his glass globes show crime scenes, including those of a serial killer preying on his community.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really tired and not thinking of much else to say about this book. If you liked the prior books in the series, you&#8217;ll like this one, and really, that&#8217;s about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought Tamora Pierce&#8217;s Shatterglass, the last book in the Circle Opens quartet, while at Boskone, but didn&#8217;t complete a proper read for a while after that. This is as good as the first two, and considerably better than Cold Fire. This series is structured around two aspects of magework: discovering and teaching one&#8217;s first &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2003\/03\/pierce_tamora_2_3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pierce, Tamora: (208) Shatterglass&#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":[48,71,15],"tags":[347],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-emelan","category-sf-and-fantasy","tag-pierce-tamora"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","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=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}