{"id":3012,"date":"2011-01-03T10:30:42","date_gmt":"2011-01-02T21:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=3012"},"modified":"2011-01-03T23:06:12","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T10:06:12","slug":"summary-of-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/01\/03\/summary-of-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Summary of Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/heir-of-night_release-flyer_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1514\" title=\"heir-of-night_release-flyer_1\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/heir-of-night_release-flyer_1-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"122\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/heir-of-night_release-flyer_1-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/heir-of-night_release-flyer_1.jpg 545w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 122px) 100vw, 122px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/heir-of-night_release-flyer_2a-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1678\" title=\"heir-of-night_release-flyer_2a-1\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/heir-of-night_release-flyer_2a-1-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"127\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/heir-of-night_release-flyer_2a-1-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/heir-of-night_release-flyer_2a-1.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 127px) 100vw, 127px\" \/><\/a>Finishing the manuscript for <em><strong>The Gathering of the Lost<\/strong><\/em>, <strong>The Wall of Night Book Two<\/strong>, right on New Year, which like Janus, the Roman God of Doors, is a time for looking both back and forwards, made me both look back to the launch of <em><strong>The Heir of Night<\/strong><\/em> on <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2010\/09\/28\/here-at-last-publication-date-in-the-usa\/\"><strong>28 September<\/strong><\/a> (USA\/Canada) and <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2010\/10\/07\/the-heir-of-night-launched-in-australianew-zealand-today-im-celebratin\/\"><strong>7 October<\/strong><\/a> (Aus\/NZ) respectively and think that it could be time to compile links to some of the great online reviews that have come in, here in one place.<\/p>\n<p>And here they are (&#8216;roughly&#8217; in date order):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fantasybookreview.co.uk\/Helen-Lowe\/The-Heir-of-Night.html\"><strong>Fantasy Book Review (UK)<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/librariansbookreviews.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/book-review-heir-of-night-by-helen-lowe.html\"><strong>One Librarian&#8217;s Book Reviews<\/strong><\/a>,<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/freshfiction.com\/review.php?id=27598\"><strong>Fresh Fiction<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.specusphere.com\/joomla\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=1074&amp;Itemid=32\"><strong> <\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.specusphere.com\/joomla\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=1074&amp;Itemid=32\"><strong>Specusphere<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/angusandrobertsonedwardstown.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/review-helen-lowe-heir-of-night.html\"><strong>Angus &amp; Robertson<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantasyliterature.com\/lowehelen.html\"><strong> FantasyLit.com<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.risingshadow.net\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=97&amp;Itemid=44\"><strong>Rising Shadow<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookloons.com\/cgi-bin\/Review.asp?bookid=12902\"><strong>Bookloons<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sffanz.sf.org.nz\/reviews\/reviewdocs\/heir_of_night.shtml\">SFFANZ<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong> <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/fictionkingdom.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/review-heir-of-night-by-helen-lowe.html\">Fiction Kingdom<\/a><\/strong> and<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfrevu.com\/php\/Review-id.php?id=10710\"><strong>SFRevu<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Heir<\/strong><\/em> also received two &#8216;print only&#8217; pro reviews from <em><strong>Library Journal<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Publisher&#8217;s Weekly<\/strong><\/em> respectively.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Library Journal<\/em><\/strong> was enthusiastic, stating that:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Lowe\u2019s first novel, a series opener, calls to mind the inchoate evil of Barbara Hambly\u2019s classic\u00a0 \u201cDarwath Trilogy\u201d (The Time of the Dark; The Walls of Air; The Armies of Daylight) and reinvigorates the epic fantasy with appealing characters and a richly detailed world.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Publisher&#8217;s Weekly<\/strong> <\/em>was more temperate, describing <em>The Heir of Night <\/em>as:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8221; &#8230; a mostly standard fantasy tale &#8230; [although] Lowe clearly portrays Malian&#8217;s difficulties in leaving home and facing up to a vital if unwanted birthright, adding depth with descriptions of the stoic and proud Derai warrior culture.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, I prefer &#8220;<em>reinvigorates the epic fantasy&#8221;&#8212;<\/em> way to go, <em><strong>Library Journa<\/strong><strong>l! <\/strong><\/em>\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finishing the manuscript for The Gathering of the Lost, The Wall of Night Book Two, right on New Year, which like Janus, the Roman God of Doors, is a time for looking both back and forwards, made me both look back to the launch of The Heir of Night on 28 September (USA\/Canada) and 7 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3012","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\/3012","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=3012"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3015,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012\/revisions\/3015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}