{"id":937,"date":"2002-04-02T23:31:40","date_gmt":"2002-04-02T23:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=937"},"modified":"2012-04-24T23:32:29","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T23:32:29","slug":"wheel-of-the-infinite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=937","title":{"rendered":"Wheel of the Infinite"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Wheel of the Infinite<\/em> by Martha             Wells<\/h3>\n<p>This meeting was our first since Adventures in Crime             &amp; Space closed its storefront. Jeff Hurst and Judy             Strange hosted the discussion at their home. Ten people             showed up for the meeting, and two others sent in             comments by email.<\/p>\n<p>Our topic was <em>Wheel of the Infinite<\/em>, the most             recent fantasy novel by ArmadilloCon 24 Guest of Honor             Martha Wells. This book tells the story of Maskelle, an             exiled priestess who discovers a threat involving the             powerful Wheel of the Infinite. Maskelle and Rian, a             young swordsman, travel to the capitol city<!--more--> of             Duvalpore in an attempt to prevent disaster for all             reality. Everyone at the meeting had read this book,             and six had read prior books by Wells.<\/p>\n<p>Wells creates a rich world full of wonderful             characters. Her prose did a good job of describing the             world without calling attention to itself. Magic was an             integral part of the book, but it was treated so             matter-of-factly by the characters that several             non-fantasy-lovers in our group enjoyed it a great             deal. Maskelle was a strong and sympathetic viewpoint             character, and we enjoyed her developing romance with             the younger Rian. We found the book had a lot of humor,             and we also liked the pirates, the fight scenes, and             the strange creatures. One member of the group said             this book seemed like an Andre Norton book for             grownups.<\/p>\n<p>We could not find much negative about <em>Wheel of the             Infinite<\/em>. Nobody hated the book or even disliked             it. A couple of people felt the ending seemed rushed,             but that was the only complaint.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, our group found <em>Wheel of the             Infinite<\/em> to be well-written fantasy novel full of             fun characters, big ideas, and lots of action. Everyone             at the meeting planned to recommend this book to their             friends and to read more Martha Wells in the future.             After the meeting, most of us went to dinner at Marie             Callender&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;A. T. Campbell, III<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wheel of the Infinite by Martha Wells This meeting was our first since Adventures in Crime &amp; Space closed its storefront. Jeff Hurst and Judy Strange hosted the discussion at their home. Ten people showed up for the meeting, and two others sent in comments by email. Our topic was Wheel of the Infinite, the [&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-937","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\/937","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=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":940,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions\/940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}