{"id":13200,"date":"2012-04-22T06:30:41","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T18:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=13200"},"modified":"2012-04-21T17:24:54","modified_gmt":"2012-04-21T05:24:54","slug":"risingshadow-reviews-the-gathering-of-the-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/04\/22\/risingshadow-reviews-the-gathering-of-the-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"RisingShadow Reviews “The Gathering of the Lost”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Gathering of the Lost<\/strong><\/em> has its third review, this time from international speculative fiction site, RisingShadow<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s an indepth review covering the basic plot (but without spoilers—thank you, RisingShadow!), worldbuilding, the characters, the magic and monsters, and the writing itself, with an overall summation of how the reviewer found the book. (In other words, very similar to the approach taken by Paul Weimer of SF Signal<\/a> in reviewing The Heir of Night<\/em><\/strong> recently, here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Here is the opening sequence to the RisingShadow<\/strong> review:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>“Before I write anything else, I’ll mention that the last decade has been good for fantasy literature, because lots of new authors have emerged and several excellent books have been written during the last couple of years. Helen Lowe is one of these good authors, because her books are highly enjoyable and entertaining reading experiences. Her fantasy series, <\/em>The Wall of Night, is a powerful, complex and beautifully written tale about friendship, duty, loyalty and magic…”<\/em><\/p>\n

To read the full review, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Gathering of the Lost has its third review, this time from international speculative fiction site, RisingShadow. It’s an indepth review covering the basic plot (but without spoilers—thank you, RisingShadow!), worldbuilding, the characters, the magic and monsters, and the writing itself, with an overall summation of how the reviewer found the book. (In other words, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13200","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\/13200","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=13200"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13207,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13200\/revisions\/13207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}