{"id":1962,"date":"2013-07-10T20:42:59","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T20:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1962"},"modified":"2015-04-04T15:29:07","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T15:29:07","slug":"the-brides-of-rollrock-island-by-margo-lanagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1962","title":{"rendered":"The Brides of Rollrock Island by Margo Lanagan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2022 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/The-Brides-of-Rollrock-Island.jpg\" alt=\"The Brides of Rollrock Island\" width=\"136\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This book was *so* creepy, but so well done.\u00a0 Imagine Stepford wives drawn, by magic, from the bodies of seals.\u00a0 The basic storyline is that the men of Rollrock Island hire a witch named Miskaella who uses her magic to \u201cmake\u201d them wives from the seals who visit their beach.\u00a0 Once the woman has been drawn out of the seal, her husband only needs to keep her seal skin hidden away so that she cannot leave.\u00a0 The seal-women are beautiful and obedient, but they desperately miss their lives and families in the sea.\u00a0 The human-born women all leave the island in disgust, but the men don\u2019t seem to be\u00a0fazed because they would rather have the beautiful creatures who bow to their every whim.\u00a0 I loved how the story was told from the perspectives of multiple people, including Miskaella herself.\u00a0 Not quite as dark as Lanagan&#8217;s <em>Tender Morsels<\/em>, but a dark tale nonetheless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book was *so* creepy, but so well done.\u00a0 Imagine Stepford wives drawn, by magic, from the bodies of seals.\u00a0 The basic storyline is that the men of Rollrock Island hire a witch named Miskaella who uses her magic to \u201cmake\u201d them wives from the seals who visit their beach.\u00a0 Once the woman has been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1962\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Brides of Rollrock Island by Margo Lanagan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-young-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}