{"id":913,"date":"2017-03-11T07:20:13","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T07:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/?p=913"},"modified":"2017-03-11T07:21:33","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T07:21:33","slug":"our-story-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/11\/our-story-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Story So Far&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems as if I&#8217;m reading more books lately &#8212; more of <i>other people&#8217;s<\/i> books, that is.  I was asked to blurb <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0765389592\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0765389592&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=themisepage-20&#038;linkId=01ea58a1c4d90b6bd0a22a1587d7d816\"><i>An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors<\/i><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=themisepage-20&#038;l=am2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0765389592\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>, for example, and was happy to do so because I really enjoyed it.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of posts back I plugged <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B06XBLQGWG\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B06XBLQGWG&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=themisepage-20&#038;linkId=ac8ec4948a554fc689fadefc97ccc9ba\"><i>Disreputable Persons<\/i><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=themisepage-20&#038;l=am2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B06XBLQGWG\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>; that was another one I liked.<\/p>\n<p>Well, tonight I finished <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1595148418\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=1595148418&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=themisepage-20&#038;linkId=5a036cb5ca0fe9fa1821fb5915485a5a\"><i>The Glittering Court<\/i><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=themisepage-20&#038;l=am2&#038;o=1&#038;a=1595148418\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>, by Richelle Mead.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;float:right;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=themisepage-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=1595148418&#038;asins=1595148418&#038;linkId=5237289f4c56e0db0b92e8b11c7334e4&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true&#038;price_color=333333&#038;title_color=0066c0&#038;bg_color=ffffff\"><br \/>\n    <\/iframe>It&#8217;s not bad.  I&#8217;m not really sure how to categorize it; it&#8217;s a romance, but it&#8217;s set in an imaginary world that very roughly parallels Europe and North America of the 17th or 18th century.  It&#8217;s not a fantasy in the usual sense because there&#8217;s no magic, but other than that it <i>feels<\/i> like a fantasy romance.  It&#8217;s not really my usual line of country, and I didn&#8217;t like it as much as the other two I mentioned, but I can see why Mead&#8217;s popular.<\/p>\n<p>One of the interesting aspects, though, is that it&#8217;s first in a series I assume will be at least three volumes (though only two are out so far).  I assume there will be three because it&#8217;s not going to be a first and then sequels, but three parallel stories.  This first one follows the adventures of a young countess dodging an arranged marriage, and being a romance it ends with her and her beloved happily married and going off to start a new life together.<\/p>\n<p>But she befriends two other young women who drop in and out of the story along the way, and whose adventures we do <i>not<\/i> learn about in detail.  Obviously, they&#8217;ll be the stars of the next two volumes &#8212; and in fact, one of them is the protagonist of <i>Midnight Jewel<\/i>, the second in the series.  I assume we&#8217;ll get the third girl in the third book.  Funny thing, I&#8217;d guessed wrong about which girl would be #2 and which would be #3.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, one reason I find this of particular interest is that I&#8217;m currently writing <i>Stone Unturned<\/i>, a fantasy novel told from three interlocking points of view.  I had seriously considered splitting it into three separate stories, divided among those three protagonists.  So it&#8217;s a little surprising to see Mead doing essentially that same trick.  Maybe it&#8217;s just something in the zeitgeist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems as if I&#8217;m reading more books lately &#8212; more of other people&#8217;s books, that is. I was asked to blurb An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors, for example, and was happy to do so because I really enjoyed it. A couple of posts back I plugged Disreputable Persons; that was another one I&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/11\/our-story-so-far\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-generalities-rants","category-strange-days"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":916,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}