{"id":3064,"date":"2013-04-24T21:44:56","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T21:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nimsay.blackglass.org\/2013\/04\/24\/review-the-road-to-cordia\/"},"modified":"2013-04-24T21:44:56","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T21:44:56","slug":"review-the-road-to-cordia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/?p=3064","title":{"rendered":"review-the-road-to-cordia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/16157785%22\" style=&quot;float: left; padding-right: 20px&quot;><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/%22http:\/\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1364756450m\/16157785.jpg%22\" border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;The Road To Cordia,&quot; \/><\/a><br \/>\n      <a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/16157785%22\">The Road To Cordia,<\/a> by <a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/6582972%22\">Jess Allison<\/a><br \/>\n      My rating: <a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/586074429%22\">3 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      I wanted to hate this book.  I was halfway through and was convinced that nothing good would happen to the protagonist, 14 year old Ja&#8217;Nil of the Fisherfolk.  <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s this young girl, ostracized by her people and living with horrible memories of a tragic past, who&#8217;s thrust into this unwanted journey in search of a healer.  And pretty much every character she meets on her way to Cordia has ulterior motives when it comes to poor Ja&#8217;Nil.  Except for the potential love interest.  He&#8217;s not evil&#8230;yet.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the majority of the female characters are strong and smart and likeable.  I wonder if the author was trying to make a point.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, I liked what I read.  The second half of the book focused more on the overarching storyline versus Ja&#8217;Nil&#8217;s misfortunes, and this is where the writing is at its strongest.  <\/p>\n<p>I just don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s enough for me to want to read part 2.<\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/586074429%22\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Road To Cordia, by Jess Allison My rating: 3 of 5 stars I wanted to hate this book. I was halfway through and was convinced that nothing good would happen to the protagonist, 14 year old Ja&#8217;Nil of the Fisherfolk. Here&#8217;s this young girl, ostracized by her people and living with horrible memories of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}