{"id":242,"date":"2007-10-28T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2007-10-28T12:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=242"},"modified":"2010-04-23T14:57:07","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T18:57:07","slug":"its-just-a-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=242","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Just a Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Krondor, the Betrayal <\/em>by Raymond E. Feist<\/p>\n<p>Grade: D+<\/p>\n<p>In <em>Krondor, the Betrayal<\/em>, Feist returns to the world he introduced in the <em>Riftwar Saga<\/em>. Reading the afterword, I discovered that the story for this book was based on a video game, and thank goodness for that, because otherwise I might never have forgiven the author for this awful addition to the series. The characters were flat and spent way too much time plodding from one location to another. I&#8217;m glad that Feist decided to show another side to the moredhel, a race of beings he had previously described as evil, but I never learned to like the representative character.<\/p>\n<p>My opinion of the book plummeted as the author explained that magic was possible because of a substance called <em>mana<\/em>. Some of the characters found mana on the ground here and there. It looked like a golden plant. And then they started picking it up with their magical staves as they passed by. Ugh! Mana is for video games, not novels!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m in the middle of reading the sequel (<em>Krondor, the Assassins<\/em>), which is tolerable so far, but unless it turns out to be one heck of a read, both books are headed for the Chopping Block.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Krondor, the Betrayal by Raymond E. Feist Grade: D+ In Krondor, the Betrayal, Feist returns to the world he introduced in the Riftwar Saga. Reading the afterword, I discovered that the story for this book was based on a video &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=242\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[31,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2305,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/2305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}