{"id":85075,"date":"2016-02-29T01:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T01:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=85075"},"modified":"2016-03-03T09:54:36","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T09:54:36","slug":"girl-on-the-liars-throne-by-den-patrick-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/reviews\/girl-on-the-liars-throne-by-den-patrick-book-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl On The Liar&#8217;s Throne by Den Patrick book review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Finally, the Silent<b> <\/b>Queen speaks. In the last instalment of the Erebus Sequence, Den Patrick lifts the veil on one of his most intriguing characters. <em><strong>The Girl On The Liar\u2019s Throne<\/strong> <\/em>focuses on Anea, who seemingly betrayed her ideals and her brothers at the end of the last book of this brooding fantasy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">It\u2019s hard to say much about the plot, as Patrick opens his final episode with a game-changing twist. But we can say that all is not as it seems, and when Anea\u2019s brother Lucien declares war against her, the evil Erebus&#8217; masterplan for the Italian Renaissance-like realm of Landfall is revealed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Anea proves to also be worth the wait, having evolved from a relative innocent into a warrior over the course of the trilogy. Though she\u2019s not as deft with a sword as previous series protagonists Lucien and Dino, her cool rationalism proves to be just as dangerous as their fiery tempers. Whereas they were fighting personal battles, Anea is waging a moral crusade, and will sacrifice anything to achieve it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">In a break from the other books in the series, Anea is not the only POV character. Rather stylistically, Patrick has set chapters up so plot threads parallel one another, with the novel\u2019s ending mirroring its beginning. But Patrick is an author that is chiefly concerned with character, and he does a surprisingly good job of rounding out every member of his enlarged cast. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">As the final book, nit-picking fans might be disappointed that Patrick doesn\u2019t reveal all of Landfall\u2019s secrets. But while we may never know why the seemingly medieval castle\u2019s catacombs are full of futuristic machines, <em><strong>The Girl On The Liar\u2019s Throne<\/strong><\/em> rounds off the series broad theme of flawed, outcast characters finding self-acceptance.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Den Patrick concludes The Erebus Sequence in Girl On The Liar&#8217;s Throne<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":85076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[1624,8],"tags":[3615,5024],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Girl-On-The-Liars-Throne.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}