{"id":396,"date":"2006-02-26T22:09:31","date_gmt":"2006-02-27T03:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=396"},"modified":"2024-04-14T17:41:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T21:41:29","slug":"lackey_london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2006\/02\/lackey_london\/","title":{"rendered":"Lackey, Mercedes: <cite>Wizard of London, The<\/cite>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/weblog\/2006\/02\/lackey_dragons.php\">Mercedes Lackey&#8217;s dragon books<\/a>, I also grabbed <strong><cite>The Wizard of London<\/cite><\/strong> from the library, because it incorporated some short stories involving two Victorian girls with psychic abilities, which I&#8217;d rather liked for being refreshingly different for Lackey (though occasionally verging on twee). When I read this novel, I was not just coming down with a cold but smack in the middle of one, heavy drugs and all, so my opinion is not exactly objective. Even if I&#8217;d been healthy, though, I don&#8217;t think it would have been as good as the dragon books. I wonder if maybe it&#8217;s not trying to juggle too much, what with the girls, their teacher, the title character, <em>and<\/em> the Bad Guy. Whatever the reason, it&#8217;s kind of flat: the ending is thematic but unexciting, and the presence of Puck&mdash;did I mention that Puck is a character?&mdash;felt arbitrary, and not in a fey sense.<\/p>\n<p>I took a couple others that appeared to be related out of the library at the same time, but I seemed to have reached my maximum Lackey exposure after <cite>Wizard<\/cite>: I could barely open one before putting it back down. They went back to the library unread. I don&#8217;t imagine I&#8217;ll give them another try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading Mercedes Lackey&#8217;s dragon books, I also grabbed The Wizard of London from the library, because it incorporated some short stories involving two Victorian girls with psychic abilities, which I&#8217;d rather liked for being refreshingly different for Lackey (though occasionally verging on twee). When I read this novel, I was not just coming down &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2006\/02\/lackey_london\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lackey, Mercedes: <cite>Wizard of London, The<\/cite>&#8220;<\/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":[278],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-sf-and-fantasy","tag-lackey-mercedes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","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=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2927,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions\/2927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}