{"id":56,"date":"2001-10-27T10:26:32","date_gmt":"2001-10-27T14:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=56"},"modified":"2001-10-27T10:26:32","modified_gmt":"2001-10-27T14:26:32","slug":"lackey_mercedes_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2001\/10\/lackey_mercedes_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Lackey, Mercedes: Arrows of the Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"6656809\"><\/a> <a name=\"link_6656809\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Horrible insomnia last night, so dug out a brainless comfort book, <strong>Mercedes Lackey&#8217;s <cite>Arrows of the Queen<\/cite><\/strong>.  This was her first book, which shows in the little awkward fluctuations in narrative voice; it&#8217;s also firmly within certain subgenres, the confluence of which I am much less sympathetic to these days (namely the abused, completely beaten down child, the hopelessly naive fish out of water, and a girl and her horse).  Though it kicks off a trilogy (and then a gazillion-book series), it actually stands fairly well alone, which is good because the next two have gratuitous torture and One True Destined Love angsting, so I shall not re-read those.  There is a small comment about Skif that I hadn&#8217;t noticed before that almost makes me want to read the new book focused on his origins; perhaps the library will have it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horrible insomnia last night, so dug out a brainless comfort book, Mercedes Lackey&#8217;s Arrows of the Queen. This was her first book, which shows in the little awkward fluctuations in narrative voice; it&#8217;s also firmly within certain subgenres, the confluence of which I am much less sympathetic to these days (namely the abused, completely beaten &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2001\/10\/lackey_mercedes_1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lackey, Mercedes: Arrows of the Queen&#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":[48,15,30],"tags":[278],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-sf-and-fantasy","category-valdemar","tag-lackey-mercedes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","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=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}