{"id":604,"date":"2008-05-17T11:27:29","date_gmt":"2008-05-17T11:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=604"},"modified":"2024-02-01T17:13:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T22:13:00","slug":"kirstein_04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2008\/05\/kirstein_04\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirstein, Rosemary: (04) <cite>The Language of Power<\/cite>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rosemary Kirstein&#8217;s <cite>The Language of Power<\/cite><\/strong> is the fourth and most recent Steerswoman book. This time, the subject is a closer look at the wizards, as Rowan investigates an anomaly: a wizard who, at a significant point in history, changed overnight from capricious to kindly, and drew the attention of a Steerswoman&mdash;but died before she arrived.<\/p>\n<p>This starts a little slowly, but kicks into high gear roughly halfway through with the first of three wonderfully tense sequences in a row, and culminates in another revelation that opens the world up even further for the reader. (However, I do not recommend reading this as a substitute for a nap, lest you completely misunderstand said revelation the way I did initially.) The book also contains the fine, compassionate characterization that I have come to expect, including another detailed look at a town and its social dynamics.<\/p>\n<p>A spoiler post follows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rosemary Kirstein&#8217;s The Language of Power is the fourth and most recent Steerswoman book. This time, the subject is a closer look at the wizards, as Rowan investigates an anomaly: a wizard who, at a significant point in history, changed overnight from capricious to kindly, and drew the attention of a Steerswoman&mdash;but died before she &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2008\/05\/kirstein_04\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kirstein, Rosemary: (04) <cite>The Language of Power<\/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":[48,15,20],"tags":[269],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-sf-and-fantasy","category-steerswoman","tag-kirstein-rosemary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","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=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2664,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions\/2664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}