{"id":11164,"date":"2024-02-17T01:41:42","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T01:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=11164"},"modified":"2024-02-17T10:27:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T10:27:41","slug":"when-the-moon-hatched-in-darkness-forged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/when-the-moon-hatched-in-darkness-forged\/","title":{"rendered":"When the Moon Hatched &#038; in Darkness Forged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A remarkably brutal read, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0CNRY3M44\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the first book<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sarah-A-Parker\/e\/B095JHHY8C\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah A. Parker<\/a>&#8216;s <em>Moonfall<\/em> series features fairly extreme highs and lows; it goes to some dark, <em>dark<\/em> places while at the same time telling a beautifully undying love story. Only thing I can complain about is that one of the ending scenes is clearly meant to be portentous but&#8230; the ruling class has already been shown to be hopelessly corrupted so I don&#8217;t see why anyone would care about legitimacy at this late point.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0BQFTNDBF\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In Darkness Forged<\/a> is the first of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Kenley-Davidson\/e\/B018B8YCZ6\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kenley Davidson<\/a>&#8216;s <em>Night Elves of Abreia<\/em> novels, a stand-alone and overall upbeat romance that doesn&#8217;t shy from hardship and trauma. While its odd-couple dynamic is pretty standard for the genre, the event development is more egalitarian than most with both leads having opportunities to save and (unintentionally) seduce the other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A remarkably brutal read, the first book in Sarah A. Parker&#8216;s Moonfall series features fairly extreme highs and lows; it goes to some dark, dark places while at the same time telling a beautifully undying love story. Only thing I can complain about is that one of the ending scenes is clearly meant to be portentous but&#8230; the ruling class has already been shown to be hopelessly corrupted so I don&#8217;t see why anyone would care about legitimacy at this late point. In Darkness Forged is the first of Kenley Davidson&#8216;s Night Elves of Abreia novels, a stand-alone and overall upbeat romance that doesn&#8217;t shy from hardship and trauma. While its odd-couple dynamic is pretty standard for the genre, the event development is more egalitarian than most with both leads having opportunities to save and (unintentionally) seduce the other.<\/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":[28,806,805,804,29,807],"class_list":["post-11164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-related","tag-fantasy","tag-kenley-davidson","tag-moonfall_series","tag-night-elves-of-abreia","tag-paranormal-romance","tag-sarah-a-parker"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11164","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=11164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}