{"id":212,"date":"2011-02-24T11:11:08","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T16:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/?p=212"},"modified":"2011-05-18T14:45:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T18:45:41","slug":"finnikin-of-the-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/2011\/02\/24\/finnikin-of-the-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Erin’s Pick of the Week (or so): Finnikin of the Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When Finnikin was nine years old he swore to protect the kingdom of Lumatere.\u00a0 Soon after, the royal family was murdered, and a curse has cast the kingdom into darkness.\u00a0 No one can pass through this boundary.\u00a0 Ten years later, Finnikin is a wanderer, looking for a new homeland for his people.\u00a0 His travels bring him to a temple where he meets a strange girl called Evanjalin.\u00a0 She believes the heir to Lumatere, Balthazar, still lives.\u00a0 But Evanjalin is clever, devious, and more than she seems.\u00a0 Can Finnikin trust her? If he does, will his people be able to return to Lumatere?<\/p>\n

This lovely tale of high fantasy uses all of the common themes of its genre, but adds depth, maturity, and an intriguingly complex plot.\u00a0 I enjoyed the interaction between the characters. Finnikin has a way with people and a true desire to do what is right.\u00a0 His relationship with Evanjalin is intense from the start and becomes more complex over the course of the story.\u00a0 No need for a sequel, this book tells a full story and comes to a satisfying conclusion, both romantically and politically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Finnikin was nine years old he swore to protect the kingdom of Lumatere.\u00a0 Soon after, the royal family was murdered, and a curse has cast the kingdom into darkness.\u00a0 No one can pass through this boundary.\u00a0 Ten years later, Finnikin is a wanderer, looking for a new homeland for his people.\u00a0 His travels bring … Continue reading “Erin’s Pick of the Week (or so): Finnikin of the Rock”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[21,20,19,17],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pick-of-the-week-2","tag-book-review","tag-finnikin-of-the-rock","tag-melina-marchetta","tag-pick-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org\/teenspot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}