{"id":9871,"date":"2022-10-13T04:56:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T04:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=9871"},"modified":"2022-10-13T13:47:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T13:47:16","slug":"the-firebird-chronicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/the-firebird-chronicles\/","title":{"rendered":"The Firebird Chronicles"},"content":{"rendered":"

T.A. White’s Firebird Chronicles<\/a> reminds me of series like Sirantha Jax<\/a> and Theirs Not to Reason Why<\/a>. Series that I had almost forgotten I’d missed.<\/p>\n

What’s interesting about these first four books (Rules of Redemption<\/em>, Age of Deception<\/em>, Threshold of Annihilation<\/em>, and Facets of Revolution<\/em>) is that they tell a continuous story; the next book begins immediately from where the previous ends in an unbroken scene. This poses a bit of a problem since the series is currently incomplete… although I’m not sure if it’s better or worse than using a conventional style of cliffhanger.<\/p>\n

Content-wise you have your standard brash female protagonist with abnormal power forced onto a path she initially doesn’t want which features a love interest it initially seems like a bad idea to get involved with. Yet, despite the fact that I really hate<\/em> stories where people in positions of power force their views\/goals on others this one ends up managing to walk a tightrope balance by having those rulers actually care about the people they’re trying to rule. Which opens the door for compromise (following a conflict of some sort of course).<\/p>\n

That said, the way Facets of Revolution<\/em> sets the stage for its presumed follow-up is incredibly contrived. Just cringe-inducingly stupid behavior from all involved that does not bode well for whatever the author intends as the endgame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

T.A. White’s Firebird Chronicles reminds me of series like Sirantha Jax and Theirs Not to Reason Why. Series that I had almost forgotten I’d missed. What’s interesting about these first four books (Rules of Redemption, Age of Deception, Threshold of Annihilation, and Facets of Revolution) is that they tell a continuous story; the next book begins immediately from where the previous ends in an unbroken scene. This poses a bit of a problem since the series is currently incomplete… although I’m not sure if it’s better or worse than using a conventional style of cliffhanger. Content-wise you have your standard brash female protagonist with abnormal power forced onto a path she initially doesn’t want which features a love interest it initially seems like a bad idea to get involved with. Yet, despite the fact that I really hate stories where people in positions of power force their views\/goals on others this one ends up managing to walk a tightrope balance by having those rulers actually care about the people they’re trying to rule. Which opens the door for compromise (following a conflict of some sort of course). That said, the way Facets of Revolution sets the stage for its presumed […]<\/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":[567,29,62,566],"class_list":["post-9871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-related","tag-firebird-chronicles","tag-paranormal-romance","tag-science-fiction","tag-t-a-white"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9871","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=9871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}