Review copy provided by the author, who is a personal friend\nand shares an agent with me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is a lot of very serious fantasy out there right now,\nand I love much of it. Taking on the hard-hitting, gigantic questions is part\nof what genre literature does best. And yet. And yet sometimes I want a book\nthat touches on those big questions but with a lighter hand. Lord of Secrets is\none of those books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For me it has a feel of all the best of the fun fantasy\nadventure I grew up with, without any of the parts that make us cringe now.\nGray is a wry and dogged hero, Brix is a tart-tongued and able heroine, and the\nother characters are individually and vividly drawn. They cast spells with a\npainful, even poisonous, rune-based magic, consuming human lives a bit at a\ntime. Gray is focused on saving his grandfather–a quest that I could hardly\nfind more<\/em> relatable–and Brix has her\nown concerns that unfold with the rest of the story. Each character has their\nown motivations, often getting in the way of the others to frustrating effect.\n(Frustrating for them. All too compelling for me.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n I got this copy of Lord of Secrets when I was down for the\ncount with a bad cold. It was a lovely way to distract myself for those hours\nand kept me guessing to the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Review copy provided by the author, who is a personal friend and shares an agent with me. There is a lot of very serious fantasy out there right now, and I love much of it. Taking on the hard-hitting, gigantic questions is part of what genre literature does best. And yet. And yet sometimes I […]<\/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-2558","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\/2558","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=2558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2559,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558\/revisions\/2559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}