{"id":13993,"date":"2026-05-26T14:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=13993"},"modified":"2026-05-26T14:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:20:08","slug":"the-ballad-of-falling-dragons-quarks-and-qi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/the-ballad-of-falling-dragons-quarks-and-qi\/","title":{"rendered":"The BALLAD of FALLING DRAGONS & QUARKS AND QI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sarah A. Parker<\/a>‘s second<\/a> Moonfall<\/a> novel has suffered from a number of release delays that, after seeing the rather unfortunate additions to the book’s title, appear to have been publisher-related. While this still hits the same notes as the prequel, it feels like it’s going in circles narratively and I ended up dropping it halfway through when the stupid blood-bond subplot reappears out of nowhere.<\/p>\n

A novel that briefly appeared on my recommendation list, yet stuck around in the back of my thoughts until recently when I finally gave in and picked it up, J.L. Williams<\/a>‘ Quarks and Qi<\/a> turned out shockingly entertaining. It has a similar concept as Manaforged Robotics<\/a>‘ except (perhaps because the technology here is like magic) with the two genres far better integrated. I didn’t even mind that the fantasy world is cultivation-focused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sarah A. Parker‘s second Moonfall novel has suffered from a number of release delays that, after seeing the rather unfortunate additions to the book’s title, appear to have been publisher-related. While this still hits the same notes as the prequel, it feels like it’s going in circles narratively and I ended up dropping it halfway through when the stupid blood-bond subplot reappears out of nowhere. A novel that briefly appeared on my recommendation list, yet stuck around in the back of my thoughts until recently when I finally gave in and picked it up, J.L. Williams‘ Quarks and Qi turned out shockingly entertaining. It has a similar concept as Manaforged Robotics‘ except (perhaps because the technology here is like magic) with the two genres far better integrated. I didn’t even mind that the fantasy world is cultivation-focused.<\/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":[28,1336,805,29,807,62],"class_list":["post-13993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-related","tag-fantasy","tag-j-l-williams","tag-moonfall","tag-paranormal-romance","tag-sarah-a-parker","tag-science-fiction"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13993","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=13993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}