{"id":3154,"date":"2019-08-13T13:50:48","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T17:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=3154"},"modified":"2019-08-13T13:50:48","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T17:50:48","slug":"book-review-masque-by-w-r-gingell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=3154","title":{"rendered":"Book review:  Masque by W.R. Gingell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/29481285-masque\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.gr-assets.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1457672816l\/29481285._SX98_.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"Masque (Two Monarchies Sequence)\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/29481285-masque\">Masque<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/7849833.W_R_Gingell\">W.R. Gingell<\/a><br><br>\nMy rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/2935829105\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><br><br><br>\nTo say that this book is the retelling of the Beauty and the Beast fairy tale does the author an injustice. So, yes, &#8220;Masque&#8221; is a retelling of the traditional fairy tale, but it is one of the most fun and original retellings I&#8217;ve ever read. To begin with, the story is set in a setting where both magic and technology exist. But, more interestingly, a murder happens, and the heroine decides she wants to solve the murder. The heroine (who is the narrator of the story) is, in turn, sarcastic, irreverent, funny, and perceptive. I love her. The hero is also a strong character in his own right, but it is the heroine whose story it is and who tells it as she wishes. <br>The secondary characters are fully formed and engaging in their own right, and the love story is reluctant and adorable.<br>The only minor flaw in the book is that the mystery is not that complicated&#8211;I figured it out shortly after the first murder (and I hate figuring out the murderer before the end). But this book is so much more than the murder mystery and well worth the read.<br>Note: this is the first book I&#8217;ve read by this author, and it looks like this is not a sequential part of but tangential to the Two Monarchies series. I am excited that I have 3 more books (and fairy tale retellings) to investigate!<br>I highly recommend this book!<br>\n<br><br><br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/1396812-may\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Masque by W.R. Gingell My rating: 4 of 5 stars To say that this book is the retelling of the Beauty and the Beast fairy tale does the author an injustice. So, yes, &#8220;Masque&#8221; is a retelling of the traditional fairy tale, but it is one of the most fun and original retellings I&#8217;ve ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":"","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}},"categories":[40],"tags":[336,229,549,548,199,550],"class_list":["post-3154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-books","tag-fantasy","tag-masque","tag-mystery","tag-romance","tag-w-r-gingell"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p23QXm-OS","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154","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=3154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3155,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154\/revisions\/3155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}