{"id":2258,"date":"2012-12-21T11:32:18","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T18:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=2258"},"modified":"2013-01-05T15:45:48","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T22:45:48","slug":"review-for-the-millennial-sword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=2258","title":{"rendered":"Review for The Millennial Sword<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

The book review blog Fangs for the Fantasy<\/a> has posted a very thoughtful and well-balanced review of my novel. The reviewer has some criticisms which I think are quite fair (they’d like to see more development of some of the side characters), but overall it’s a positive review:<\/p>\n

\nViveka has arrived in San Francisco from the Midwest to start a new job. That\u2019s already pretty challenging, a new work place, a new city, finding a place to live (despite a limited budget) and trying to keep her very grumpy cat amused and tolerant during the move.<\/p>\n

And then a woman gives her a sword and runs off. A sword that virtually no-one can see—Excalibur. She\u2019s just been recruited as the new Lady of the Lake with a solemn duty to try and protect the people of San Francisco from Morgan Le Fay—queen of the fairies who has a specialty of kidnapping children. And like it or not, she can\u2019t stand by while children are taken—especially with redcaps moving against her. She has a few friends, a complicated love life and a lot to learn.<\/p>\n

This book did a very good job in setting up the world, the characters and the concepts of the story. By the end, everything is firmly in place and it\u2019s a lot of fun getting there, from battle the tomte in her home, to swordfighting with the Society for Creative Anachronism to just moving to a brand new city, starting a new job and trying to set up a new life. We get to know Viveka, her life, her duties and the people that are part of it.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Viveka is an interesting character in new situations, both conflicted and determined. Originally I think she adapted to the whole Lady of the Lake gig perhaps a little too easily but she did come back with a lot of doubts and questions, but whatever doubts she had are eclipsed by the simple fact that kids are in danger. I liked that she did sidetrack a lot of the usual \u201cwhyyyy meee, it\u2019s soooon unfair!\u201d we see in the genre and instead got on with it—kids were in danger, there\u2019s no time for whining.<\/p>\n

In all, it\u2019s a fun read. It has an interesting world, but one that could use development. It has some potentially interesting characters that, again, need to be taken further. I think it\u2019s a series with a lot more to give, on its own it\u2019s still a fun book.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The book review blog Fangs for the Fantasy has posted a very thoughtful and well-balanced review of my novel. The reviewer has some criticisms which I think are quite fair (they’d like to see more development of some of the side characters), but overall it’s a positive review: Viveka has arrived in San Francisco from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2258"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2295,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions\/2295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}