{"id":1100,"date":"2019-11-26T18:59:30","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T08:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcreid.net\/blog\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2019-11-26T18:59:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T08:59:30","slug":"capsule-review-storm-of-locusts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jcreid.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/26\/capsule-review-storm-of-locusts\/","title":{"rendered":"Capsule Review &#8211; Storm of Locusts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>She imprisoned a god, but her work&#8217;s not done&#8230;<\/em><span id='easy-footnote-1-1100' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.jcreid.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/26\/capsule-review-storm-of-locusts\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-1100' title='There has been a bit of a gap between when I read this and am reviewing it, so it is not fresh enough in my mind for a full review, instead, here is a quick review for a book that should not be overlooked. '><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I liked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jcreid.net\/blog\/2018\/12\/30\/review-trail-of-lightning\/\"><em>Trail of Lightning<\/em><\/a> quite a bit, but <em>Storm of Locusts<\/em> feels like the full realisation of Roanhorse&#8217;s vision.\u00a0 By taking us out of Navajo territory, we gain perspective on both the safety and austerity afforded by the four walls, and the translocation of Din\u00e9 gods into more conventional settings makes the world bigger by quelling any idea that they might be genius loci, rather than world spanning deities.<span id='easy-footnote-2-1100' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.jcreid.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/26\/capsule-review-storm-of-locusts\/#easy-footnote-bottom-2-1100' title=' An issue shared with any pantheon where the gods interact with a specific group of people.'><sup>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span>\u00a0 Indeed,\u00a0 while fundamentally built on the monster of the week format, <em>Storm of Locusts\u00a0<\/em>puts meat on it, with both interesting tangents and a strong plot, expanding upon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jcreid.net\/blog\/2018\/12\/30\/review-trail-of-lightning\/\"><em>Trail of Lighting<\/em><\/a> in almost every aspect.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>A stronger sequel to an already good book.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She imprisoned a god, but her work&#8217;s not done&#8230;I liked Trail of Lightning, quite a bit, but Storm of Locusts feels like the full realisation of Roanhorse&#8217;s vision.\u00a0 By taking us out of Navajo territory, we gain perspective on both the safety and austerity afforded by the four walls, and the translocation of Din\u00e9 gods into more conventional settings makes the world bigger by quelling any idea that they might be genius loci, rather than world spanning deities.\u00a0 Indeed,\u00a0 while fundamentally built on the monster of the week format, Storm of Locusts\u00a0puts meat on it, with both interesting tangents and a strong plot, expanding upon Trail of Lighting in almost every aspect.A stronger sequel to an already good book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,8],"tags":[13,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcreid.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcreid.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcreid.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcreid.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcreid.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcreid.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1108,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcreid.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions\/1108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcreid.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcreid.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcreid.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcreid.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}