{"id":9395,"date":"2021-10-26T06:33:32","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T06:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=9395"},"modified":"2021-10-29T09:43:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T09:43:17","slug":"the-shining-court-sea-of-sorrows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/the-shining-court-sea-of-sorrows\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shining Court &#038; Sea of Sorrows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00AFR4CQG\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The third<\/a> entry in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michelle_Sagara\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle Sagara<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/tag\/sun-sword\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sun Sword<\/a> series introduces what readers of her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/tag\/chronicles-of-elantra\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elantra<\/a> series will be well familiar with: Abstract mysticism.<\/p>\n<p>To be honest, at this late date, I don&#8217;t remember much about it besides that it was okayish. The reason for this is the follow-up, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00AFR4CG6?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tkin_3&#038;storeType=ebooks\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sea of Sorrows<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I do not think it&#8217;s ever taken me so long to finish a book. A chapter here, a chapter there, over the course of&#8230; months? I don&#8217;t even know. The book isn&#8217;t bad <em>per se<\/em>, it&#8217;s just that the newfound mysticism element combined with the (possibly e-book specific) visual issue of perspective breaks no longer being double-spaced results in an experience lacking engagement. And the clinical sort of vibe around it that lasts up until the last few chapters certainly doesn&#8217;t help. Hopefully the remaining two books in the series pick up the pace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third entry in Michelle Sagara&#8216;s Sun Sword series introduces what readers of her Elantra series will be well familiar with: Abstract mysticism. To be honest, at this late date, I don&#8217;t remember much about it besides that it was okayish. The reason for this is the follow-up, Sea of Sorrows. I do not think it&#8217;s ever taken me so long to finish a book. A chapter here, a chapter there, over the course of&#8230; months? I don&#8217;t even know. The book isn&#8217;t bad per se, it&#8217;s just that the newfound mysticism element combined with the (possibly e-book specific) visual issue of perspective breaks no longer being double-spaced results in an experience lacking engagement. And the clinical sort of vibe around it that lasts up until the last few chapters certainly doesn&#8217;t help. Hopefully the remaining two books in the series pick up the pace.<\/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":[522,28,108,523],"class_list":["post-9395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-related","tag-essalieyan","tag-fantasy","tag-michelle-sagara","tag-sun-sword"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9395","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=9395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}