{"id":24292,"date":"2014-02-05T06:30:20","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T17:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=24292"},"modified":"2014-02-01T21:02:47","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T08:02:47","slug":"is-malian-of-night-a-streetwise-heroine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/02\/05\/is-malian-of-night-a-streetwise-heroine\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Malian Of Night A Streetwise Heroine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12679\" style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/03\/31\/last-chance-to-dance-the-gemmell-awards-the-sir-julius-vogels-both-close-today\/heirofnight_no-foil-indd-6\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12679\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12679\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-12679\" title=\"HeirOfNight_no foil.indd\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Heir-of-Night-UK-front-cover-100x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Heir-of-Night-UK-front-cover-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Heir-of-Night-UK-front-cover-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Heir-of-Night-UK-front-cover-686x1024.jpg 686w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Heir-of-Night-UK-front-cover.jpg 1833w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12679\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UK trade paperback<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On Monday, I linked through to my February 1 feature post on the Supernatural Underground, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supernaturalunderground.blogspot.co.nz\/2014\/02\/streetwise-heroines.html\">Streetwise Heroines<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the post, I talked about a few criteria that I feel determine a streetwise heroine, including that she:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>is either from the wrong side of the tracks or able to operate on that turf<\/li>\n<li>fulfills the 3 &#8220;S&#8217;s&#8221;: strong, savvy, and sassy<\/li>\n<li>is a little bit badass, as well &#8212; but with a heart that&#8217;s in the right place; <em>and<\/em><\/li>\n<li>a fourth &#8220;S&#8221; &#8212; sexy &#8212; was rated as\u00a0 &#8216;desirable (possibly) but not essential&#8217;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So how does Malian, the heroine of my own <a href=\"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/wallofnight.html\">Wall of Night<\/a> series, rate against these criteria?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/02\/05\/is-malian-of-night-a-streetwise-heroine\/lowe-erbin-der-nacht-5-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24298\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-24298\" title=\"Lowe Erbin der Nacht (5)\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Lowe-Erbin-der-Nacht-5-94x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"94\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Lowe-Erbin-der-Nacht-5-94x150.jpg 94w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Lowe-Erbin-der-Nacht-5-189x300.jpg 189w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Lowe-Erbin-der-Nacht-5.jpg 410w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 94px) 100vw, 94px\" \/><\/a>She&#8217;s not from the wrong side of the tracks &#8212; far from it: as Heir to the warrior House of Night, Malian is definitely an aristocrat. I feel though, that events in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/gatheringofthelost.html\">The Gathering Of The Lost<\/a><\/em> (GATHERING) make it pretty clear that she is capable of operating on the wrong side of the tracks.<\/p>\n<p>Malian is also strong and savvy, and although &#8220;sassy&#8221; may not be quite the right word for an epic fantasy world, she&#8217;s definitely assertive and has plenty of what was once called &#8220;sand&#8221; (i.e. nerve; courage)<\/p>\n<p>In terms of &#8220;sexy&#8221; &#8212; well, she is a little young for that adjective in <a href=\"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/heirofnight.html\"><em>The Heir Of Night<\/em><\/a> (HEIR) &#8212; and I will leave those who have read GATHERING to make up their own minds on that point.<\/p>\n<p>A little bit badass &#8212; again, not so much in HEIR, but the element does creep in for GATHERING.<\/p>\n<p>Is her heart in the right place: again, readers will have to make up their own minds, especially in GATHERING, but my feeling is that so far she is more on the side of the angels than not&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So overall, I do feel that Malian of Night has enough of the baseline attributes to qualify as a &#8220;streetwise heroine&#8221; &#8212; dissenting opinions, with reasons (but no spoilers!), welcome however. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, I linked through to my February 1 feature post on the Supernatural Underground, Streetwise Heroines. In the post, I talked about a few criteria that I feel determine a streetwise heroine, including that she: is either from the wrong side of the tracks or able to operate on that turf fulfills the 3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-my-books","category-supernatural-underground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24292","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=24292"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24318,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24292\/revisions\/24318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}