{"id":4269,"date":"2013-12-27T09:03:12","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T14:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=4269"},"modified":"2026-03-22T10:37:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T14:37:53","slug":"the-shadow-pavilion-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/4269","title":{"rendered":"The Shadow Pavilion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00ETR2W56\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B00ETR2W56&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=randomreading-20\">The Shadow Pavilion<\/a><\/em> (2009) <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/williamsl.php\">Liz Williams<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00ETR2W56\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00ETR2W56&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=randomreading-20\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Shadow-Pavilion.jpg?resize=202%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6350\" \/><\/a>There are certain people who are not happy about the changes The Emperor of Heaven is making. But you&#8217;d think plotting assassination would be beyond Celestial Beings. <\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d be wrong.<\/p>\n<p>The assassin is a strange creature; a centuries old child of a demon and a human who lives Between, and is balanced between Male and Female, and this balance seems rather tenuous.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, a Tiger Demon who is also a top Bollywood star is starting to cause problems for her manager and agent&#8211;who are also the two who summoned her to earth to start in their films. <\/p>\n<p>Plus, Zhu Irzh and Jhai have a wedding to plan.<\/p>\n<p>But best of all, we spend a lot of time with Badger.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There were cockroaches, which the badger snapped up with a slight and surprising sensation of guilt: he wasn\u2019t sure that it was professional to snack on the job. Still, one had to keep up one\u2019s strength. And they were certainly tasty.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I was bundled into a bag,&#8221; the badger said, sourly. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bad luck. Come to think of it, they must have been pretty good to get you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you.&#8221; The badger was grateful at this attempt to save his face. Zhu Irzh wasn\u2019t such a bad sort, really.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And so much more. I really adore the Badger.<\/p>\n<p>But there are many other bits of wisdom, dropped seemingly randomly throughout the story.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pride was all very well, but pride was frequently expensive.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nanything. The depths of my personal ignorance are as yet unplumbed&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThis is how it begins. You start with the highest intentions, driven by the purest motives. You will not, you tell yourself, stoop from these elevated goals, because you can\u2019t afford to. You have to set an example, to yourself as much as to others. Once you let that go, it\u2019s a long downward slope, rocks gathering speed until you\u2019re caught up in the avalanche, falling, falling, with the lights of Hell speeding up below you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure you&#8217;d want to start here, but it&#8217;s a marvelous addition to the story.<br \/>\n<strong>Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Published by Open Road Media<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/avg_rating_widget\/18405990\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Shadow Pavilion (2009) Liz Williams There are certain people who are not happy about the changes The Emperor of Heaven is making. But you&#8217;d think plotting assassination would be beyond Celestial Beings. You&#8217;d be wrong. The assassin is a strange creature; a centuries old child of a demon and a human who lives Between, [&hellip;]<\/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":true,"_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":[12,31,2,8,291,42,16],"tags":[127,126,655],"class_list":["post-4269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8-10","category-asian","category-fantasy","category-mystery","category-paper","category-police","category-supernatural","tag-detective-inspector-chen","tag-liz-williams","tag-violence"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-16R","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1679,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/1679","url_meta":{"origin":4269,"position":0},"title":"The Shadow Pavilion","author":"Michelle","date":"April 4, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The Shadow Pavilion (2009) Liz Williams Detective Inspector Chen has multiple problems to deal with: his partner Zhu Irzh has disappeared, along with the badger, a Bollywood star\/tiger demon is on the rampage, and someone wants to kill the Emperor of Heaven. 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