{"id":1229,"date":"2010-09-06T00:56:39","date_gmt":"2010-09-05T12:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2010-11-21T11:41:58","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T22:41:58","slug":"thornspell-review-from-finland-5-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2010\/09\/06\/thornspell-review-from-finland-5-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Thornspell&#8221; Review from Finland: 5 Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/thornspellcover_small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-76\" title=\"Thornspell\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/thornspellcover_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a>Recently, I mentioned that I had been approached by Finnish reviewer, pseudonym &#8220;Seregil of Rhiminee&#8221;, of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.risingshadow.net\/\"><strong>RisingShadow<\/strong><\/a>, about the possibility of reviewing <em><strong>The Heir of Night<\/strong><\/em> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thornspell.info\/\"><em><strong>Thornspell<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. The review for <em><strong>Thornspell<\/strong><\/em> has just come through and I am thrilled to see that Seregil has rated it <strong>5 stars<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Thornspell<\/em><\/span> is a charming, rich and well imagined retelling of the  <em>Sleeping Beauty<\/em> story &#8230; I think that everybody who likes beautiful prose, romantic adventures and good stories, will love this book. There are several similar books, but <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Thornspell<\/em><\/span> is clearly in  a league of its own, because the quality of the writing is superb and the  story is fascinating &#8230; This book is so good that once  you start reading it,  it&#8217;s almost impossible to put it down. Highly recommended!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To read the full interview, click <a href=\"http:\/\/en.risingshadow.net\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=94&amp;Itemid=44\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I mentioned that I had been approached by Finnish reviewer, pseudonym &#8220;Seregil of Rhiminee&#8221;, of RisingShadow, about the possibility of reviewing The Heir of Night and Thornspell. The review for Thornspell has just come through and I am thrilled to see that Seregil has rated it 5 stars: &#8220;Thornspell is a charming, rich and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-my-books","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1254,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions\/1254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}