{"id":13463,"date":"2010-04-27T20:12:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T01:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13463"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:45:45","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:45:45","slug":"hartman-rachel-amy-unbounded-belondweg-blossoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13463","title":{"rendered":"Hartman, Rachel &#8211; Amy Unbounded: Belondweg Blossoming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amy_Unbounded\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/amyunbounded1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"393\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0971790000\/xeroxarmy-20\">Amy  Unbounded: Belondweg Blossoming<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Add this to the list of books that I&#8217;m not sure what to think about.  The characters were all done well, the art was great, it was just a  bit&#8230; dull at times, I guess. Still, this has the feeling of a prologue  more than anything else, and time will tell whether or not this whole  series is worth getting. She&#8217;s off to a good start though, and I can see  where the Xeric grant came from. This is the story of Amy, in theory,  but it&#8217;s really about the whole town and all the people that Amy deals  with. There&#8217;s a vast array of characters and I found myself flipping  back to the character guide at the start of the book a couple of times,  and that&#8217;s rare. I don&#8217;t know who to recommend this to. If you like  fantasy, well, a lot of the fantasy elements are here (knights and  dragons, for example), but nothing much happens with them. This is about  the characters through and through. I don&#8217;t know, maybe the minis would  be of some help. You can get them at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amyunbounded.com\/\">website<\/a>, by the way, but  there doesn&#8217;t look to be much in the way of samples there. The heart of  any good story is good characters. If this really is a prologue, she&#8217;s  set herself up wonderfully. If it&#8217;s not, I don&#8217;t know if this is strong  enough to stand on its own. Talk to me in a few years when I have the  answer to that and I&#8217;ll be able to tell you more about it. Until then,  it&#8217;s still a fun story to read, if slightly puzzling.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/amyunbounded2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"388\" height=\"638\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Amy Unbounded: Belondweg Blossoming Add this to the list of books that I&#8217;m not sure what to think about. The characters were all done well, the art was great, it was just a bit&#8230; dull at times, I guess. Still, this has the feeling of a prologue more than anything else, and time will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1251,1252,3711],"class_list":["post-13463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-amy-unbounded","tag-belondweg-blossoming","tag-rachel-hartman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13463"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16745,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13463\/revisions\/16745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}