{"id":114,"date":"2017-04-28T17:13:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T17:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jessica.lorentzsmith\/?p=114"},"modified":"2017-04-28T17:13:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T17:13:00","slug":"kingdom-of-ash-and-briars-by-hannah-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jessica.lorentzsmith\/2017\/04\/28\/kingdom-of-ash-and-briars-by-hannah-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Kingdom of Ash and Briars by Hannah West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jessica.lorentzsmith\/files\/2017\/04\/ash-and-briar.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-115\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jessica.lorentzsmith\/files\/2017\/04\/ash-and-briar.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"412\" \/><\/a>The pages of this book are well done.\u00a0 At the beginning of each chapter there is a beautiful tree illustration.\u00a0 As far as fantasy books go, this one is readable and easy to follow.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t usually like fantasy at all, but I would put this one up there with <em>The Reader<\/em>, that I reviewed earlier this year, as one that you can just start reading and easily follow along without wondering about the genesis of the fantastical elements.<\/p>\n<p>Bristal thinks she is just an orphaned kitchen maid, but early in this story discovers that her fate is tied to something much more powerful.\u00a0 Legend has it that if you can find the mystical pond surrounded by trees and survive a baptisms of sorts, then you must be one of the infamous elicromancers; an ancient breed of immortal magic beings.\u00a0 Bristal is kidnapped and dunked in the water because her kidnappers are suspicious of Bristal&#8217;s ability.\u00a0 What she discovers from this baptism is that she is in fact an elicromancer, capable of transforming into animals and a master of disguises. Now she is tasked with deciding between immortality and protecting mortals, or follow the magnetism of her power to unknown terror.<\/p>\n<p>There is violence and war along with doses of classic tales interwoven into this story.\u00a0 Savvy readers might recognize elements of Cinderlla, Sleeping Beauty, and even Jane Austen.\u00a0\u00a0 If your readers are okay with violence, this book is fine for middle school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pages of this book are well done.\u00a0 At the beginning of each chapter there is a beautiful tree illustration.\u00a0 As far as fantasy books go, this one is readable and easy to follow.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t usually like fantasy at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jessica.lorentzsmith\/2017\/04\/28\/kingdom-of-ash-and-briars-by-hannah-west\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stc_notifier_status":"sent","_stc_notifier_sent_time":"2020-03-31 20:38:00","_stc_notifier_request":false,"_stc_notifier_prevent":false,"_stc_subscriber_keywords":"","_stc_subscriber_search_areas":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11499,48799],"tags":[48804,48809,48805],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-reviews","tag-48804","tag-ms","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jessica.lorentzsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jessica.lorentzsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jessica.lorentzsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jessica.lorentzsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jessica.lorentzsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jessica.lorentzsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jessica.lorentzsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jessica.lorentzsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jessica.lorentzsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/jessica.lorentzsmith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}