{"id":7832,"date":"2013-08-15T20:15:26","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T00:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=7832"},"modified":"2015-04-06T13:34:05","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T17:34:05","slug":"review-the-crippled-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2013\/08\/15\/review-the-crippled-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Crippled God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/8706730\" style=\"float: left;padding-right: 20px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net\/books\/1317066075m\/8706730.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Crippled God\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/8706730\">The Crippled God<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/31232\">Steven Erikson<\/a><br \/>\n      My rating: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/402644480\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      For a couple years a coworker told me to read this series. I bought the first book, but it sat on the shelf as a reminder. Finally, I caved, and he gave me the rest of the series. It started off confusing and complicated with dozens of main characters, strange magic systems, strange cultures, politics, and lots of deities. <\/p>\n<p>The series ended like it started with gritty and descriptive battle scenes. Even in wrapping everything with a pretty bow, the winners lost so much. I don&#8217;t feel exultant for them. More&#8230; Relief. Relief they can go home now and stop the trials. And I am happy this is a true good ending rather than either too much wrap up (100 pages in Lord of the Rings) or a sudden incomplete ending where we are left to our imaginations to end it.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite character is Kalam. I wished he had more time over the course of the series. <\/p>\n<p>It may be time to go off fantasy novels for a while.<\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/402644480\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Crippled God by Steven Erikson My rating: 4 of 5 stars For a couple years a coworker told me to read this series. I bought the first book, but it sat on the shelf as a reminder. Finally, I caved, and he gave me the rest of the series. It started off confusing and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","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":[256],"tags":[2706,2607],"class_list":["post-7832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-novels-writing","tag-book-review","tag-posted-2013"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-22k","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}