{"id":4735,"date":"2017-12-15T11:58:17","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T16:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/?p=4735"},"modified":"2017-12-15T11:58:17","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T16:58:17","slug":"of-sand-and-malice-made-song-of-shattered-sands-by-bradley-p-beaulieu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/book-review\/fantasy\/sword-and-sorcery\/of-sand-and-malice-made-song-of-shattered-sands-by-bradley-p-beaulieu\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Sand and Malice Made (Song of Shattered Sands), by Bradley P. Beaulieu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Of-Sand-and-Malice-Made-Song-of-Shattered-Sands-by-Bradley-P.-Beaulieu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4746\" src=\"http:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Of-Sand-and-Malice-Made-Song-of-Shattered-Sands-by-Bradley-P.-Beaulieu-166x250.jpg\" alt=\"Of Sand and Malice Made (Song of Shattered Sands), by Bradley P. Beaulieu book cover\" width=\"166\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Of-Sand-and-Malice-Made-Song-of-Shattered-Sands-by-Bradley-P.-Beaulieu-166x250.jpg 166w, https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Of-Sand-and-Malice-Made-Song-of-Shattered-Sands-by-Bradley-P.-Beaulieu.jpg 331w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 166px) 100vw, 166px\" \/><\/a>Genre: Fantasy<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong style=\"text-indent: 0em;\">Publisher:\u00a0 DAW<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Published: 2016<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Reviewer Rating:\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-244\" src=\"http:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/11\/threestars.gif\" alt=\"three stars\" width=\"36\" height=\"13\" \/><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong style=\"text-indent: 0em;\">Reviewer:\u00a0 Joshua Palmatier<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is a novella featuring the characters from Bradley P. Beaulieu&#8217;s &#8220;Shattered Sands&#8221; series.<\/p>\n<p>Premise:\u00a0 Ceda is a pit fighter who catches the eye of an ehrekh, an evil creature created ages ago by the god of chaos. She attempts to escape, but this only makes her more interesting in the ehrekh&#8217;s eyes. The more Ceda resists, the more the ehrekh wants her.\u00a0 How can Ceda escape the clutches of a creature that&#8217;s part god?<\/p>\n<p>This is really a story in three parts, each part a short story in an of itself, all connected.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the story is good, the best part probably the last. Ceda is a great character and the world where people sail the sands like we sail the ocean is spectacular.<\/p>\n<p>The weakest part in this story is the middle part. Not because it isn&#8217;t a complete short on its own, but it didn&#8217;t have the depth that the other two parts had; it read a little more perfunctory than the other parts. I felt the characterizations were best in the first and last parts, especially of the ehrekh.<\/p>\n<p>But still, an enjoyable addition to the novels in the this series.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Palmatier\/Benjamin Tate<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.joshuapalmatier.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.joshuapalmatier.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a style=\"text-indent: 0em;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.benjamintate.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.benjamintate.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genre: Fantasy Publisher:\u00a0 DAW Published: 2016 Reviewer Rating:\u00a0 Reviewer:\u00a0 Joshua Palmatier This is a novella featuring the characters from Bradley P. Beaulieu&#8217;s &#8220;Shattered Sands&#8221; series. Premise:\u00a0 Ceda is a pit fighter who catches the eye of an ehrekh, an evil creature created ages ago by the god of chaos. She &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":4746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[904],"tags":[1235,166,822,47],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4735"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4747,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4735\/revisions\/4747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}