{"id":5995,"date":"2016-08-06T09:55:37","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T13:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=5995"},"modified":"2020-06-08T15:31:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T19:31:53","slug":"jack-the-giant-killer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/5995","title":{"rendered":"Jack the Giant-Killer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2bqPOMc\">Jack the Giant-Killer<\/a><\/em> (1987) <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/delint.php\">Charles de Lint<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2bqPOMc\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Jack_the_Giant-Killer.jpg?resize=197%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Jack_the_Giant-Killer\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5996\" \/><\/a>Jackie Rowan is stunned when her boyfriend walks out on her, and stumbling home after a binge, she sees the unbelievable and is pulled into a world just under the surface of her own world, that she never knew existed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The map was of Ottawa, but all the names were changed. Parliament Hill was the Laird&#8217;s Manor and Court. The Market area was the Easting Fair. The Glebe became Cockle Tom&#8217;s Garve.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>There&#8217;s few that believe in the Lairdsfolk, that&#8217;s too true, but the Host \u2026 I&#8217;ve seen the books you read, the movies you see. They speak of the undead and of every horror that ever served in Gyre the Elder&#8217;s Court. Your people might not say they believe when you ask them, but just their reading those books, watching those movies \u2026 Jacky Rowan, every time they do, they strengthen our enemy and make us weak.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Once pulled in, she decides to save the princess and turn her own life around.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t my favorite Charles de Lint book, but it&#8217;s still very good.<br \/>\n<strong>Rating: 7.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Published by Triskell Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack the Giant-Killer (1987) Charles de Lint Jackie Rowan is stunned when her boyfriend walks out on her, and stumbling home after a binge, she sees the unbelievable and is pulled into a world just under the surface of her own world, that she never knew existed. The map was of Ottawa, but all the [&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":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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[194,2,48,34],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-5995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-5-10","category-fantasy","category-female","category-urban-fantasy","tag-charles-de-lint"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-1yH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":202,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/202","url_meta":{"origin":5995,"position":0},"title":"Jack of Kinrowan","author":"Michelle","date":"March 3, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Jack of Kinrowan (1995) Charles de Lint Jack of Kinrowan is actually two books: Jack the Giant Killer and Drink Down the Moon. 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I believe I have all of his mass published story anthologies, and several of the smaller press novellas, so I'd read most of the stories in this collection. Doesn't matter. 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