{"id":2257,"date":"2018-08-24T18:11:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T23:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=2257"},"modified":"2018-08-24T18:11:11","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T23:11:11","slug":"the-unkindness-of-ravens-by-abra-staffin-wiebe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=2257","title":{"rendered":"The Unkindness of Ravens, by Abra Staffin-Wiebe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Review copy provided by the author\/publisher, who is also a personal friend and also someone I was in a writing group with, so I critiqued this novella.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a novella about a magical, divinely backed caste system and the perils of xenophobia. It&#8217;s also about family and assumptions and trust. It also has some unflinching scenes of fighting, battlefields, injury, and disability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s a lot in one novella, is what I&#8217;m saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anari is the heir of House Crow, one of the eight Great Houses that runs his homeland and contributes possible heirs to the throne. He hasn&#8217;t ever seen himself as oba (ruler) material, and he had hoped that that would keep him out of the cutthroat competition. The world&#8211;as embodied by his siblings in the other Great Houses, and possibly by the intentions and desires of his House&#8217;s god&#8211;has other plans. Soon Anari&#8217;s entire worldview is upended, and he has to figure out a way for divine favor and Crow cleverness to provide real healing for his people&#8211;including the people he never thought of as his.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The resolution of this high fantasy adventure avoids some obvious pitfalls, holding interest deftly until the very end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please consider using our link to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B07F5NV7BG\/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=novegazi-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=B07F5NV7BG&amp;linkId=691900b135667fbbc1de89b66b00ac15\" target=\"_blank\">buy <em>The Unkindness of Ravens<\/em> from Amazon<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review copy provided by the author\/publisher, who is also a personal friend and also someone I was in a writing group with, so I critiqued this novella. This is a novella about a magical, divinely backed caste system and the perils of xenophobia. It&#8217;s also about family and assumptions and trust. It also has some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-2257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bookses-precious"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257","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=2257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2260,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions\/2260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}