{"id":1297,"date":"2014-08-07T11:58:16","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T15:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=1297"},"modified":"2014-08-07T11:58:16","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T15:58:16","slug":"book-review-the-serpents-shadow-by-mercedes-lackey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=1297","title":{"rendered":"Book review:  The Serpent&#8217;s Shadow by Mercedes Lackey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/13997.The_Serpent_s_Shadow\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1406635564m\/13997.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"The Serpent's Shadow (Elemental Masters, #2)\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/13997.The_Serpent_s_Shadow\">The Serpent&#8217;s Shadow<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/8685.Mercedes_Lackey\">Mercedes Lackey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1019687617\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have not read any Mercedes Lackey in quite some time (I really loved her Valdemar books), and I was thrilled to discover that she was as good as ever in &#8220;The Serpent&#8217;s Shadow.&#8221; (Being OCD, I will have to go back and read the first book in the series.)<br \/>\nThe heroine of the book is Maya, a half-English, half-Indian doctor at a time when both were extremely rare. There are interesting interactions depicted by the author where Maya encounters discrimination on either or both counts, but it&#8217;s done with a light hand with little moralizing.<br \/>\nThe hero, Peter Scott, is a lovely man who respects Maya&#8217;s independence and intelligence (and magical capabilities).<br \/>\nFor those of you who enjoy Dorothy Sayer&#8217;s Lord Peter Wimsey stories, the author pays tribute to that character with a clone of her own.<br \/>\nAnd the fantasy\/magic interwoven in the story is done well, with consistent magical principles and terminology.<br \/>\nAll in all, this was a well done fantasy with interesting characters and a nicely done plot. I highly recommend it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/1396812-may\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Serpent&#8217;s Shadow by Mercedes Lackey My rating: 4 of 5 stars I have not read any Mercedes Lackey in quite some time (I really loved her Valdemar books), and I was thrilled to discover that she was as good as ever in &#8220;The Serpent&#8217;s Shadow.&#8221; (Being OCD, I will have to go back and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40],"tags":[336,229,231,230],"class_list":["post-1297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-books","tag-fantasy","tag-mercedes-lackey","tag-the-serpents-shadow"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p23QXm-kV","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1298,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions\/1298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}