{"id":3086,"date":"2021-06-24T08:19:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T13:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=3086"},"modified":"2021-06-24T08:19:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T13:19:15","slug":"flowers-for-the-sea-by-zin-e-rocklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=3086","title":{"rendered":"Flowers for the Sea, by Zin E. Rocklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Review copy provided by the publisher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This debut novella is listed as both epic and dark fantasy, and I would say it trends strongly toward the latter. Until we got to the ending, I was inclining toward calling it horror&#8211;there is a strong component of what I would describe as body horror here, subcategory pregnancy body horror. If that&#8217;s a theme you struggle with, you may want to leave this one for another day (or even another reader), because pregnancy (and nursing) body horror is a substantial portion of what we&#8217;re doing here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a story of the outcast, and it is a story of the sea. I was wondering if there would be sharp twists, but no, it&#8217;s more like the tide, it&#8217;s inexorable like the tide. The razorfangs, the sea, the survivors and their treatment of each other including the ostracized other among them&#8230;the question of her humanity&#8230;it&#8217;s all there, you know this song, it&#8217;s a question of how vividly Rocklyn brings it to its conclusion, and the answer is, very vividly indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review copy provided by the publisher. This debut novella is listed as both epic and dark fantasy, and I would say it trends strongly toward the latter. Until we got to the ending, I was inclining toward calling it horror&#8211;there is a strong component of what I would describe as body horror here, subcategory pregnancy [&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-3086","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\/3086","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=3086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3087,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086\/revisions\/3087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}