{"id":1344,"date":"2009-09-08T19:10:13","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T00:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=1344"},"modified":"2021-05-31T07:45:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T11:45:44","slug":"bloodring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/1344","title":{"rendered":"Bloodring"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bloodring<\/em> (2006) Faith Hunter<\/a><\/p>\n

\"bloodring\"<\/a>Thorn is a neomage. But unlike the rest of her mage brethren, she does not live in a mage Enclave, but instead is hiding in the small town of Mineral City running a gem and jewelry show with her friends–none of who know she is a neomage in hiding. Unfortunately for Thorn, the kidnapping of her ex-husband brings law enforcement officials into town.<\/p>\n

The world in which Thorn lives is post-apocalyptic in a very interesting way: angels came and pretty much took humans to task for their misdeeds and misbehavior. There are three types of beings: humans, seraphs, and neomages. The relationship between the three is both complex and somewhat confusing, and I’m still not sure I’m clear.<\/p>\n

One thing that I did care for was the high boink possibility that went through the story. I don’t see why a humanoid species would develop estrus later in their evolution–it doesn’t make biological sense to me, but then we still don’t know how neomages came to be, so I suppose if they were engineered beings, that might serve to limit the population.<\/p>\n

Regardless, books that constantly dwell on sex tend not to be my favorites, so that took the book down a notch for me. <\/p>\n

Otherwise, I thought the character development was very good–and I quite liked many of the characters, though I thought some of them might be a little too good with not quite enough flaws, but this book was written from Throrn’s POV, so I don’t think the characters were actually perfect, only that Thorn idolized them a wee bit.<\/p>\n

This is the first book in a series, and although the main story arc did conclude in this book, if I’d bought this book before the following two books I probably would have been a little annoyed.
\nRating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bloodring (2006) Faith Hunter Thorn is a neomage. But unlike the rest of her mage brethren, she does not live in a mage Enclave, but instead is hiding in the small town of Mineral City running a gem and jewelry show with her friends–none of who know she is a neomage in hiding. Unfortunately for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,291],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-1344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-paper","tag-faith-hunter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-lG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1385,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/1385","url_meta":{"origin":1344,"position":0},"title":"Host","author":"Michelle","date":"October 1, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Host (2007) Faith Hunter This seems to be the conclusion of Faith Hunters Rogue Mage series. 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