{"id":4547,"date":"2022-10-10T14:37:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T14:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/?page_id=4547"},"modified":"2022-10-10T15:53:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T15:53:52","slug":"4547-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/writing\/book-reviews\/4547-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/green-mans-foe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4615\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/green-mans-foe-192x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/green-mans-foe-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/green-mans-foe.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/a>The Green Man\u2019s Foe<\/em>, by Juliet McKenna<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary rural folk fantasy \/ horror. As regards her first in this series, <em>The Green Man\u2019s Heir<\/em>, I\u2019ll say the sequel is either better, if you didn\u2019t like the first one, or even better if you did. The itinerant woodworking half-dryad, half-mortal hero Daniel is hired to oversee the restoration of a gloomy, moldering old pile into a modern trendy spa hotel. Unfortunately there\u2019s something nasty in the water \u2013 literally. A nix, specifically, whose malign influence has corrupted the local Aleister Crowley wannabe, who in turn is corrupting the youth of the town. I liked that dealing with the nix takes time and effort, but is still over in a couple of chapters when they finally get to it; dealing realistically with the juvenile delinquents takes longer. Juliet does not subscribe to \u201cthe devil made me do it\u201d as a convincing excuse for wrong doing. The plot is more linear, the hero more likeable, showing unexpected maturity, depth and compassion when it comes to handling the kids. Worth a read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Green Man\u2019s Foe, by Juliet McKenna Contemporary rural folk fantasy \/ horror. As regards her first in this series, The Green Man\u2019s Heir, I\u2019ll say the sequel is either better, if you didn\u2019t like the first one, or even &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/writing\/book-reviews\/4547-2\/\">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-4547","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4547","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=4547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4646,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4547\/revisions\/4646"}],"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=4547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}