{"id":6199,"date":"2016-11-19T20:59:06","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T01:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=6199"},"modified":"2021-12-15T21:45:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T02:45:29","slug":"shades-of-milk-and-honey-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/6199","title":{"rendered":"Shades of Milk and Honey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shades of Milk and Honey<\/a><\/em> (2010) Mary Robinette Kowal<\/a><\/p>\n

\"milkhoney\"<\/a>Set in Alternate Regency England ~1814.<\/p>\n

The first time I read this, it was immediately following a Guy Gavriel Kay book, and so this story suffered in comparison. Nothing against Mary Robinette Kowal, it’s just that Guy Gavriel Kay is that good. <\/p>\n

So searching for something to read, I decided to give it another try, and was glad I did.<\/p>\n

Magic, or Glamour, exists but is frequently the purview of Ladies, seen as one of the arts acceptable to them, like painting and music. And a skilled Glamourist would be expected to combine glamour and music.<\/p>\n

But Glamour is also used to “enhance” the home, creating amazing scenes in ballrooms for the delight of visitors.<\/p>\n

Jane is quite on the shelf. She may be accomplished in music and painting and glamour, but she is quite plain looking, and so has resigned herself to being a spinster. Jane’s sister Melody, however, is beautiful and impetuous, and somehow the two manage to be jealous of each other.<\/p>\n

I have often thought that the juxtaposition of the perfect with the flawed is the only thing which allows us to appreciate perfection.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Although I didn’t like the magic quite as well as I did in Magic and Manners<\/a><\/em>, it was an enjoyable story, and I’m glad I re-read it.
\nRating: 7.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published by Tor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shades of Milk and Honey (2010) Mary Robinette Kowal Set in Alternate Regency England ~1814. The first time I read this, it was immediately following a Guy Gavriel Kay book, and so this story suffered in comparison. Nothing against Mary Robinette Kowal, it’s just that Guy Gavriel Kay is that good. So searching for something […]<\/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":[194,27,30,2,48,41,26],"tags":[239,547],"class_list":["post-6199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-5-10","category-alternate-history","category-british","category-fantasy","category-female","category-reread","category-romance","tag-mary-robinette-kowal","tag-napoleonic-era"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-1BZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2419,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/2419","url_meta":{"origin":6199,"position":0},"title":"Shades of Milk and Honey","author":"Michelle","date":"June 19, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Shades of Milk and Honey (2010) Mary Robinette Kowal Oddly, Shades of Milk and Honey is in some ways a parallel to Under Heaven, only set in an alternate England instead of an alternate China. 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