{"id":235,"date":"2003-10-11T21:42:52","date_gmt":"2003-10-12T01:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=235"},"modified":"2003-10-11T21:42:52","modified_gmt":"2003-10-12T01:42:52","slug":"wrede_patricia_3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2003\/10\/wrede_patricia_3\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrede, Patricia C.: Book of Enchantments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"106592297293624385\"><\/a> <a name=\"link_106592297293624385\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Patricia C. Wrede&#8217;s <cite>Book of Enchantments<\/cite><\/strong> is a collection of short stories; I picked it up a while ago as before-bed re-reading. Neither of Wrede&#8217;s &#8220;adult&#8221; series is represented in this collection (the Lyra series and the alternate-Regency books), but there are several stories set in her popular Enchanted Forest YA universe (<cite>Dealing with Dragons<\/cite>, etc.). These are among the stronger (and sillier) stories in the collection, particularly &#8220;Utensile Strength&#8221;, which features The Frying Pan of Doom. Another enjoyably humorous story is &#8220;Rikiki and the Wizard,&#8221; a folktale written for the second Liavek shared-world anthology. Less successful, in my opinion, was &#8220;The Sword-Seller,&#8221; which was written for a Witch World anthology; to me, it lacks some subtle spark. Overall, the stories range from classic fairy-tale format to fantasy in modern settings. The best story by far is &#8220;Stronger than Time,&#8221; but it&#8217;s generally a strong collection and well worth picking up if you like any of Wrede&#8217;s work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patricia C. Wrede&#8217;s Book of Enchantments is a collection of short stories; I picked it up a while ago as before-bed re-reading. Neither of Wrede&#8217;s &#8220;adult&#8221; series is represented in this collection (the Lyra series and the alternate-Regency books), but there are several stories set in her popular Enchanted Forest YA universe (Dealing with Dragons, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2003\/10\/wrede_patricia_3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wrede, Patricia C.: Book of Enchantments&#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":[15,117],"tags":[446],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sf-and-fantasy","category-short-fiction","tag-wrede-patricia-c"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","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=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}