{"id":2160,"date":"2018-05-16T20:51:53","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T01:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=2160"},"modified":"2018-05-16T20:51:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T01:51:53","slug":"armistice-by-lara-elena-donnelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=2160","title":{"rendered":"Armistice, by Lara Elena Donnelly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Review copy provided by Tor Books.<\/p>\n<p>This is the sequel to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0765383829\/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=tcpolymath-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=0765383829&amp;linkId=c0fb321fbec60dc3f8bffc9b6d5b9251\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <em>Amberlough<\/em><\/a>, which is one of the most urban fantasies I have ever read, and yet is not, in genre terms, urban fantasy. It&#8217;s a Weimar-inflected alternate world, a spy novel, a stage novel that Noel Streatfeild would never have recognized; it is very much its own thing.<\/p>\n<p>And so is <em>Armistice<\/em>, very thoroughly a sequel and yet its own book; among other things, <em>Armistice<\/em> has a different setting&#8211;from stage to screen, from temperate to tropics, from the domestic sketches of the descent to fascism to the diplomatic ones. The stakes remain both national and intimately personal&#8211;familial, searing, heart-wrenching. There are follow-on consequences from <em>Amberlough<\/em>, but also from before that book, from the characters being full people with full lives. I am a sucker for stories of revolution, and this is one in a small enough scale to grab and hold me. It&#8217;s doing very different things than other books in the genre are doing, and I&#8217;m glad to see them done.<\/p>\n<p>Please consider using our link to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1250173566\/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=tcpolymath-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=1250173566&amp;linkId=d3fdb068179a201d0879d295fd8733d4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">buy A<em>rmistice<\/em> from Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review copy provided by Tor Books. This is the sequel to Amberlough, which is one of the most urban fantasies I have ever read, and yet is not, in genre terms, urban fantasy. It&#8217;s a Weimar-inflected alternate world, a spy novel, a stage novel that Noel Streatfeild would never have recognized; it is very much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-2160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bookses-precious"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2160"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2168,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions\/2168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}