{"id":3081,"date":"2015-01-08T16:52:20","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T16:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=3081"},"modified":"2015-03-30T22:04:15","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T22:04:15","slug":"the-queen-of-the-tearling-by-erika-johansen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=3081","title":{"rendered":"The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I really enjoyed The Queen of the Tearling<\/em>.\u00a0 It has a heavy basis in fairy tale\u2014the young princess hidden deep in the woods, the evil queen, the magical jewel\u2014but it is fairy tale in a Snow White and the Huntsman<\/em> meets The Hunger Games<\/em> kind of way.\u00a0 The adventure rolled along from page one, and I had trouble putting it down.<\/p>\n

Amidst revolution and political strife, Princess Kelsea is hidden away in the woods until she reaches the age of nineteen, when she is to ascend the throne as Queen of the Tearling.\u00a0 But first she has to reach the castle alive, then overthrow her nasty uncle, the prince regent.\u00a0 On her nineteenth birthday, the Queen\u2019s guard, formerly sworn to protect Kelsea\u2019s mother, arrives to escort her to the land of the Tearling.\u00a0\u00a0Kelsea endures the guards\u2019 disrespect, treacherous travel conditions, and the constant threat of ambush and assassination to reach the castle and face her uncle, the fawning puppet of the powerful and nasty Red Queen of neighboring Mortmense.\u00a0 With the help of some allies (and the aforementioned magic jewel), but mostly by her own wits and courage, Kelsea comes into her own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I really enjoyed The Queen of the Tearling.\u00a0 It has a heavy basis in fairy tale\u2014the young princess hidden deep in the woods, the evil queen, the magical jewel\u2014but it is fairy tale in a Snow White and the Huntsman meets The Hunger Games kind of way.\u00a0 The adventure rolled along from page one, and … Continue reading The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen<\/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":[3,4,8,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-elizabeth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081","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=3081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}