{"id":23849,"date":"2014-01-05T06:30:53","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T17:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=23849"},"modified":"2015-08-02T11:03:02","modified_gmt":"2015-08-01T23:03:02","slug":"the-most-read-posts-of-on-anything-really-from-2013-my-favourite-standalone-novels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/01\/05\/the-most-read-posts-of-on-anything-really-from-2013-my-favourite-standalone-novels\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most-Read Posts of \u201c\u2026On Anything Really\u201d from 2013: &#8220;My Favourite Standalone Novels&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/06\/25\/a-gemmell-award-essay-why-i-chose-to-write-fantasy-writing-influences\/mist-of-avalon-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14518\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-14518\" title=\"Mist of Avalon\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Mist-of-Avalon-102x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"102\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Mist-of-Avalon-102x150.jpg 102w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Mist-of-Avalon-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Mist-of-Avalon.jpg 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 102px) 100vw, 102px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/02\/09\/my-favourite-arthurian-influenced-fantasy\/drawing-of-the-dark\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11608\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-11608\" title=\"Drawing of the Dark\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Drawing-of-the-Dark-96x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"96\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Drawing-of-the-Dark-96x150.jpg 96w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Drawing-of-the-Dark.jpg 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 96px) 100vw, 96px\" \/><\/a>On January 30th of last year I took a look at some of my favourite standalone, Fantasy novels&#8212;a discussion you appeared to find interesting:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">&#8220;&#8230;the drive to pen lists was partly because I\u2019d received a few communications along the lines of:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>\u201cI don\u2019t normally read fantasy but I enjoyed your books <\/em>(HL: thank you!)<em> and would like to read more, so what would you recommend?\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The best way to recommend seemed to be sharing what I have liked over the years. With this list though, it\u2019s just \u201cFantasy\u201d because I honestly couldn\u2019t think of 10 standalone epic fantasy novels\u2014epic really does seem to run to series! I should also note that I tried to stick to one book per author &#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>To read the full post and check out those novels, click on:<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/01\/30\/my-favourite-fantasy-standalone-novels\/\">My Favourite Standalone Novels<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>May you still enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><em>Woop-woop!<\/em> New on the blog now: check out the <a style=\"color: #003300;\" href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/08\/01\/revealed-at-last-the-us-cover-for-daughter-of-blood-the-wall-of-night-book-three\/\" target=\"_blank\">new-look US cover for Daughter Of Blood<\/a>!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 30th of last year I took a look at some of my favourite standalone, Fantasy novels&#8212;a discussion you appeared to find interesting: &#8220;&#8230;the drive to pen lists was partly because I\u2019d received a few communications along the lines of: \u201cI don\u2019t normally read fantasy but I enjoyed your books (HL: thank you!) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bestof-on-anythingreally","category-most-read-posts","category-recommended-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23849","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=23849"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29762,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23849\/revisions\/29762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}