{"id":142534,"date":"2019-06-05T13:03:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=142534"},"modified":"2019-06-05T13:03:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T17:03:00","slug":"patron-recommendation-the-raven-tower-ann-leckie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=142534","title":{"rendered":"Patron Recommendation: The Raven Tower &#8211; Ann Leckie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-142535\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Raven-Tower-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Raven-Tower-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Raven-Tower.jpg 323w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/>&#8220;For centuries, the kingdom of Iraden has been protected by the god known as the Raven.<\/p>\n<p>He watches over his territory from atop a tower in the powerful port of Vastai. His will is enacted through the Raven&#8217;s Lease, a human ruler chosen by the god himself. His magic is sustained by the blood sacrifice that every Lease must offer. And under the Raven&#8217;s watch, the city flourishes.<\/p>\n<p>But the Raven&#8217;s tower holds a secret. Its foundations conceal a dark history that has been waiting to reveal itself&#8230;and to set in motion a chain of events that could destroy Iraden forever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The patron said: &#8220;It&#8217;s wonderful. Leckie&#8217;s mind is twisty. I like twisty. It&#8217;s written in second person present tense omniscient, and you don&#8217;t find too many of those!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For centuries, the kingdom of Iraden has been protected by the god known as the Raven. He watches over his territory from atop a tower in the powerful port of Vastai. His will is enacted through the Raven&#8217;s Lease, a human ruler chosen by the god himself. His magic is sustained by the blood sacrifice&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":142535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fantasy","category-patron-recommendations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Raven-Tower.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-B4W","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142534"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142537,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142534\/revisions\/142537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/142535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}