{"id":14179,"date":"2012-06-13T06:30:20","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T18:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=14179"},"modified":"2012-06-11T21:31:44","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T09:31:44","slug":"whats-being-said-about-the-gathering-of-the-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/06\/13\/whats-being-said-about-the-gathering-of-the-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s Being Said About “The Gathering of the Lost”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UK\/AUS\/NZ<\/p><\/div>\n

By which I mean, there’ve been a few more reviews come in, so I thought I’d share a few of the quotes:<\/p>\n

Fantasy Book Review UK:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Returning to this world was a wonderful experience for me. I enjoyed Lowe\u2019s first instalment in her \u2018The Wall of Night Series\u2019 and was eagerly anticipating the return. The characters and ideas portrayed in Lowe\u2019s writing enthrall me and capture my imagination like very few other books. … The Gathering of the Lost returns the reader to a world of hidden history and shadowed loyalties and keeps you there until well past your bedtime, loving every minute of it.” —<\/em> Joshua S Hill
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Waiting for Fairies, USA:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“…the story has progressed in a direction that I hadn\u2019t expected… It has grown deeper, wider. What we have now is no longer simply a traditional hero\u2019s journey with a new twist. <\/em>The Heir of Night was a book all about seclusion, isolation, and walking lonely paths with few allies.<\/em><\/p>\n

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USA<\/p><\/div>\n

The Gathering of the Lost\u00a0is completely different and new. It is a book about companions: friendships and everything that those things entail. We see loyalty, betrayal, lust and love. The story didn\u2019t go as far forward in length as I would have liked, but what it did not it made up for in sheer breadth and scope. The more I consider it, the more I realize that this book completely changed the game. And that is amazing. Lowe has managed to shake the very foundations of her world … while paradoxically remaining true to the expectations she laid out in the very first book.” <\/em>— Kiara
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BooksellersNZ Blog: (NZ)
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“The strong imagery is truly thrilling. I could just imagine the book as a movie in my head, with it\u2019s clever plot and vivid characters, it is the ultimate fantasy novel.” — <\/em>Tierney Reardon
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Shades of Sentience (Aus)<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Throughout it\u2019s easy to note that Lowe\u2019s writing style has grown significantly, and we also see the worldbuilding (already quite deep and interesting) has grown yet again …There\u2019s a surprising amount of detail invested in the inhabitants of the cities, and the customs shown show a great deal of care to adding depth to the smaller details. Politics plays a slightly larger part in this book, yet it\u2019s still a good balance between that and adventure as the plot twists and turns onwards. Everyone plays to their own agendas, leaving the main characters to struggle to see who is friend and who is foe.”<\/em> — Katherine Stubbs<\/p>\n

Canvas (NZ Herald)<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Lowe’s world is somewhat fantasy-standard in its medieval trappings, but it’s also richly imagined with vivid characters.” –<\/em>– David Larsen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By which I mean, there’ve been a few more reviews come in, so I thought I’d share a few of the quotes: Fantasy Book Review UK: “Returning to this world was a wonderful experience for me. I enjoyed Lowe\u2019s first instalment in her \u2018The Wall of Night Series\u2019 and was eagerly anticipating the return. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14179","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=14179"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14193,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14179\/revisions\/14193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}