{"id":1288,"date":"1997-12-02T16:36:56","date_gmt":"1997-12-02T16:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1288"},"modified":"2012-04-25T16:37:23","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T16:37:23","slug":"emerald-house-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=1288","title":{"rendered":"Emerald House Rising"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Emerald House Rising<\/em> by             Peg Kerr<\/h3>\n<p>Attendees: Renee Babcock, A. T. Campbell III, Lori Wolf<\/p>\n<p>A small but loyal group gathered to discuss <em>Emerald             House Rising<\/em> at the FACT Office. The book is a             slickly written first fantasy novel about a young woman             who&#8217;s training to be a gem cutter but discovers that             she has a talent for magic. We felt that Kerr&#8217;s             storytelling was excellent. We were impressed by the             thoughtfully constructed society and the vivid             descriptions of political intrigue. The magic system in             the book was unusual, and it was worked well into the             plot. There were a few problems: many of the minor             characters seemed like &#8220;stock&#8221; characters, and the plot             seemed to flow almost too smoothly for much of the             book. We felt this book was a well-above-average first             novel, and we look forward to Kerr&#8217;s future work.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212; A. T. Campbell, III<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emerald House Rising by Peg Kerr Attendees: Renee Babcock, A. T. Campbell III, Lori Wolf A small but loyal group gathered to discuss Emerald House Rising at the FACT Office. The book is a slickly written first fantasy novel about a young woman who&#8217;s training to be a gem cutter but discovers that she has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1289,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions\/1289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}