{"id":36783,"date":"2019-07-01T17:40:50","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T05:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=36783"},"modified":"2019-07-01T20:59:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T08:59:07","slug":"new-on-supernatural-underground-right-now-the-year-of-romance-rocks-on-with-katherine-kerrs-daggerspell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2019\/07\/01\/new-on-supernatural-underground-right-now-the-year-of-romance-rocks-on-with-katherine-kerrs-daggerspell\/","title":{"rendered":"New On Supernatural Underground Right Now: The Year of Romance Rocks On With Katherine Kerr&#8217;s &#8220;Daggerspell&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-28238\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Supelogo_2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Supelogo_2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Supelogo_2.jpg 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Yep, you guessed it &#8212; it&#8217;s the 1st of the month and that means Supernatural Underground! For this year, it also means my Year of Romance in Fantasy Fiction (#YOR #RIFF) is rocking on, alternating between more recent books and titles of longer standing.<\/p>\n<p>This month, I&#8217;m heading back to 1988 and shining the spotlight on Katharine Kerr&#8217;s <strong><em>Daggerspell<\/em><\/strong>, her inaugural <strong>Deverry<\/strong> novel. In particular, I&#8217;m highlighting Jill and Rhodry, candidates for &#8220;love at first sight&#8221;, as well\u00a0 as &#8220;fated love&#8221; and a few more of the romance traditions. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-17663\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Daggerspell-184x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Daggerspell-184x300.jpg 184w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Daggerspell-92x150.jpg 92w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Daggerspell.jpg 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/>I love this book, so if you don&#8217;t already know it and Katharine Kerr&#8217;s writing, rock on over to Supernatural Underground and find out more.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/2019\/07\/romance-in-fantasy-fiction-katharine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Romance In Fantasy Fiction: Katharine Kerr&#8217;s &#8220;Daggerspell&#8221; and Love At First Meeting<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Of course, it&#8217;s not really the first, although Jill and Rhodry don&#8217;t know it&#8230; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Have fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, you guessed it &#8212; it&#8217;s the 1st of the month and that means Supernatural Underground! For this year, it also means my Year of Romance in Fantasy Fiction (#YOR #RIFF) is rocking on, alternating between more recent books and titles of longer standing. This month, I&#8217;m heading back to 1988 and shining the spotlight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supernatural-underground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36783","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=36783"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36787,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36783\/revisions\/36787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}