{"id":84,"date":"2010-03-03T23:14:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T07:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fionadarrow.com\/?p=84"},"modified":"2025-03-20T17:07:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T01:07:37","slug":"review-avempartha-by-michael-j-sullivan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fionadarrow.com\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"Review: Avempartha by Michael J. Sullivan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/6342483-avempartha\" style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Avempartha (The Riyria Revelations,#2)\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1266648176m\/6342483.jpg\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/6342483-avempartha\">Avempartha<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/2063919.Michael_J_Sullivan\">Michael J.  Sullivan<\/a><br \/>\nMy rating: 5 of 5 stars<br \/>\nI read the first book in this series because I wanted to help out a new author, and our Goodreads Fantasy Book Club was reading it. I enjoyed the first book, but was somewhat ambivalent about it.  I was interested in giving the series more of a chance so I nominated this book a couple of times and the rest of the group voted for something else. THEIR LOSS!! Avempartha is fantastic! It builds on the story set out in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/4345290.The_Crown_Conspiracy_The_Riyria_Revelations_1_\" title=\"The Crown Conspiracy (The Riyria Revelations, #1) by Michael J.  Sullivan\">The Crown Conspiracy<\/a> yet really takes off. I had a hard time putting it down and going to sleep each night I so wanted to find out what happened next. I felt Michael&#8217;s storytelling just blossomed. I loved the new characters and how they were introduced into the story. I love how he keeps peeling away new layers to the main characters, Hadrian and Royce, like an onion. I&#8217;m so glad I have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/6527941.Nyphron_Rising_The_Riyria_Revelations_3_\" title=\"Nyphron Rising (The Riyria Revelations, #3) by Michael J.  Sullivan\">Nyphron Rising<\/a> so I can tear right into it and have a feeling it&#8217;s going to be agonizing to wait for book 4, but I&#8217;m hanging on to this wild ride all the way to the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avempartha by Michael J. Sullivan My rating: 5 of 5 stars I read the first book in this series because I wanted to help out a new author, and our Goodreads Fantasy Book Club was reading it. I enjoyed the first book, but was somewhat ambivalent about it. I was interested in giving the series [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fionadarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fionadarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fionadarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fionadarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fionadarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/fionadarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/fionadarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fionadarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fionadarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fionadarrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}