{"id":12100,"date":"2025-01-12T02:47:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T02:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=12100"},"modified":"2025-01-12T02:53:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T02:53:31","slug":"arcane-awakening-1-4-manifest-destiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/arcane-awakening-1-4-manifest-destiny\/","title":{"rendered":"ARCANE AWAKENING #1-4 &#038; MANIFEST DESTINY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a setup similar to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/dead-tired-vigor-mortis\/\" title=\"DEAD TIRED &#038; Vigor Mortis\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dead Tired<\/a>&#8216;s (a wizard emerges from stasis after thousands of years to find that wizards have been replaced by arrogant cultivators), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/J-Parsons\/e\/B07WPX4LK9\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">J. Parsons<\/a>&#8216; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0CCBZC4P2\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arcane Awakening<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Imperial-Wizard-Southern-Alliance-Awakening-ebook\/dp\/B0DQVQ47WR\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Imperial Wizard<\/a> series decides to take the premise in a far more serious direction. The protagonist here isn&#8217;t all-powerful and the setting leans more toward grimdark, though in general it tries to stay fairly upbeat and has a number of small romance subplots.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0DSCFFJZP\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The fifth<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/John-Van-Stry\/e\/B004U7JY8I\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Van Stry<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wolfhounds-shattered-dreams\/\" title=\"STAND ALONE, TAKING GROUND, &#038; SHATTERED DREAMS\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wolfhounds<\/a> novels covers the capture of the last few planets before the siege of the capital, meaning the upcoming sixth will mark the main series&#8217; conclusion (according to the Afterword the author plans on writing a few more books in the same universe). While it mostly consists of political maneuvering, there&#8217;s also a decent amount of combat and romantic development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a setup similar to Dead Tired&#8216;s (a wizard emerges from stasis after thousands of years to find that wizards have been replaced by arrogant cultivators), J. Parsons&#8216; Arcane Awakening\/Imperial Wizard series decides to take the premise in a far more serious direction. The protagonist here isn&#8217;t all-powerful and the setting leans more toward grimdark, though in general it tries to stay fairly upbeat and has a number of small romance subplots. The fifth of John Van Stry&#8216;s Wolfhounds novels covers the capture of the last few planets before the siege of the capital, meaning the upcoming sixth will mark the main series&#8217; conclusion (according to the Afterword the author plans on writing a few more books in the same universe). While it mostly consists of political maneuvering, there&#8217;s also a decent amount of combat and romantic development.<\/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":[1060,28,1059,825,64,62,823],"class_list":["post-12100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-related","tag-arcane-awakening","tag-fantasy","tag-j-parsons","tag-john-van-stry","tag-romance","tag-science-fiction","tag-wolfhounds"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12100","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=12100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}