{"id":1302,"date":"2015-10-27T16:46:10","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T16:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2015-10-28T00:28:01","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T00:28:01","slug":"a-red-rose-chain-magic-breaks-magic-shifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/a-red-rose-chain-magic-breaks-magic-shifts\/","title":{"rendered":"A Red-Rose Chain, Magic Breaks, & Magic Shifts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seanan McGuire<\/a>‘s A Red-Rose Chain<\/em> has an ending problem; it’s both anti-climatic and rather abrupt. The journey up to that point is entertaining for the most part though, with the only hiccup being a bizarre page-and-a-half dialog regarding a character dramatically revealed to be transsexual. Why is there such a hamfisted focus on it? I don’t recall any particular attention being drawn to May’s lesbian relationship before, and this should have been no different.<\/p>\n

As for Ilona Andrews<\/a>‘ Magic Breaks<\/em> and Magic Shifts<\/em>: The first acts as a conclusion of sorts to the background conflict that has been building from the very first entry in the series, while the second continues on in a slightly different yet still quite similar direction. There’s a comforting familiarity about them that was absent from their more recent prequels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seanan McGuire‘s A Red-Rose Chain has an ending problem; it’s both anti-climatic and rather abrupt. The journey up to that point is entertaining for the most part though, with the only hiccup being a bizarre page-and-a-half dialog regarding a character dramatically revealed to be transsexual. Why is there such a hamfisted focus on it? I don’t recall any particular attention being drawn to May’s lesbian relationship before, and this should have been no different. As for Ilona Andrews‘ Magic Breaks and Magic Shifts: The first acts as a conclusion of sorts to the background conflict that has been building from the very first entry in the series, while the second continues on in a slightly different yet still quite similar direction. There’s a comforting familiarity about them that was absent from their more recent prequels.<\/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":[20,86,107,106],"class_list":["post-1302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-related","tag-ilona-andrews","tag-kate-daniels","tag-october-daye","tag-seanan-mcguire"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t