{"id":4534,"date":"2022-10-10T14:23:08","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T14:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/?page_id=4534"},"modified":"2022-10-10T15:49:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T15:49:56","slug":"deeplight-by-frances-hardinge","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/writing\/book-reviews\/deeplight-by-frances-hardinge\/","title":{"rendered":"Deeplight, by Frances Hardinge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/deeplight.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/deeplight.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a>Deeplight<\/em>, by Frances Hardinge<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A positive yet gritty, enjoyable YA fantasy: a little bit Earthsea, a little bit steampunk, a little bit Cthulu. Why is it, I wonder, that slow transformation from human to fish \u2013 a fin here, a scale there \u2013 is such a horrific image? I can\u2019t and won\u2019t add to all the high praise Vikki gave it but I will mention its two stand-out points. One is that the author obviously groks the seaside, and I mean a proper seaside with cliffs and rocks and caves. Cornwall, basically, where I spent many happy holidays. Why places like Bournemouth even bother trying to be seaside I don\u2019t know. Just flat sand \u2013 where\u2019s the fun in that? Oh, and the other thing: the way the protagonist Hark slowly wakes up to the fact that he is essentially in an abusive relationship and takes steps to end it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deeplight, by Frances Hardinge A positive yet gritty, enjoyable YA fantasy: a little bit Earthsea, a little bit steampunk, a little bit Cthulu. Why is it, I wonder, that slow transformation from human to fish \u2013 a fin here, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/writing\/book-reviews\/deeplight-by-frances-hardinge\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":368,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4534","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4534"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4639,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4534\/revisions\/4639"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}