{"id":23018,"date":"2013-11-03T06:30:18","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T17:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=23018"},"modified":"2013-10-27T19:49:50","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T06:49:50","slug":"comment-of-the-week-from-liz-de-jager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/11\/03\/comment-of-the-week-from-liz-de-jager\/","title":{"rendered":"Comment Of The Week: From Liz De Jager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">&#8220;&#8230; in Heir of Night \u2013 everything about this book felt fresh and new to me. I loved it utterly and recommend it highly to friends who ask me for books to read for younger readers, not because I think it reads young, but because Malian is such an engaging character and I identify with her, and I know younger, newer readers would identify with her more than with say, David Eddings\u2019 characters and books. Some books just don\u2019t age well, even fantasy novels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">In the Heir of Night books, there\u2019s no pretend, no artifice and it doesn\u2019t feel to me, as a reader, that I\u2019m struggling to keep up but there is especially no skimping on world-building and complex layered political and religious shenanigans. And it\u2019s presented to me in a new and fresh way \u2013 a cast of characters whom I both like and dislike and trust and distrust.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">I like too that Malian speaks like a real person. The dialogue is fresh \u2013 this is what should keep any book fresh, be it fantasy or science fiction or whatever.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Liz&#8217;s comment appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/10\/14\/what-makes-for-the-new-in-epic-fantasy\/\">&#8220;What Makes for &#8216;The New\u2019 in Epic Fantasy?&#8221;<\/a> and as I replied then, in respect of her remarks on HEIR:\u00a0 &#8220;Wow \u2014 thank you, Liz.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230; in Heir of Night \u2013 everything about this book felt fresh and new to me. I loved it utterly and recommend it highly to friends who ask me for books to read for younger readers, not because I think it reads young, but because Malian is such an engaging character and I identify with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,19,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-my-books","category-funstuff","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23018","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=23018"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23025,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23018\/revisions\/23025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}