{"id":10536,"date":"2023-04-25T08:20:43","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T08:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=10536"},"modified":"2023-04-25T09:38:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T09:38:30","slug":"the-kings-queen-the-elves-of-lessa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/the-kings-queen-the-elves-of-lessa\/","title":{"rendered":"The KING&#8217;S QUEEN &#038; The Elves of Lessa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0BRK76K92\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The conclusion<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/stores\/K.-M.-Shea\/author\/B005ANPMZU\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">K. M. Shea<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/obsidian-queen-1-3-gate-of-myth-and-power-1-2\/\" title=\"GATE OF MYTH AND POWER #1-2 &#038; Obsidian Queen #1-3\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gate of Myth and Power<\/a> trilogy ends up quite good. All the important subplots are wrapped up and none of the developments feel particularly forced. There&#8217;s still the matter of the organization behind the antagonist, but that will presumably be addressed in later <em>Magiford<\/em>-related trilogies.<\/p>\n<p>A work by the same author (unrelated to the above and set in a fantasy world), the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B07G3MQTG5\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elves of Lessa trilogy<\/a> (<em>RED ROPE of Fate<\/em>, <em>ROYAL Magic<\/em>, &#038; <em>The PRINCE&#8217;S BARGAIN<\/em>) takes a particular romantic formula and applies it to three different couples across the span of a few years. While the oblivious love theme does get a bit old by the time you reach the end, each character has their own unique attributes and the background storyline manages to continue progressing apace.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a remarkably engaging set of novels with a detailed setting and amusing character interactions&#8230; enough so that I may have to pick up the author&#8217;s other trilogies after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The conclusion to K. M. Shea&#8216;s Gate of Myth and Power trilogy ends up quite good. All the important subplots are wrapped up and none of the developments feel particularly forced. There&#8217;s still the matter of the organization behind the antagonist, but that will presumably be addressed in later Magiford-related trilogies. A work by the same author (unrelated to the above and set in a fantasy world), the Elves of Lessa trilogy (RED ROPE of Fate, ROYAL Magic, &#038; The PRINCE&#8217;S BARGAIN) takes a particular romantic formula and applies it to three different couples across the span of a few years. While the oblivious love theme does get a bit old by the time you reach the end, each character has their own unique attributes and the background storyline manages to continue progressing apace. It&#8217;s a remarkably engaging set of novels with a detailed setting and amusing character interactions&#8230; enough so that I may have to pick up the author&#8217;s other trilogies after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[680,28,655,656,29,30],"class_list":["post-10536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-related","tag-elves-of-lessa","tag-fantasy","tag-k-m-shea","tag-magiford-supernatural-city","tag-paranormal-romance","tag-urban-fantasy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}