{"id":3225,"date":"2024-04-03T19:07:20","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T03:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3225"},"modified":"2024-04-03T19:07:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T03:07:20","slug":"review-a-prayer-for-the-crown-shy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3225","title":{"rendered":"Review: A Prayer for the Crown-Shy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am a huge fan of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3186\">A Psalm for the Wild-Built<\/a><\/em>, the book that establishes the world of <em>A Prayer for the Crown-Shy<\/em>.  I definitely was excited to see how Becky Chambers built on that phenomenal start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Crown-Shy<\/em> takes us farther into the world and fills in more of how a society of sentients who are completely violence-blind works. The society is also cooperative at its root, which provides some interesting ideas on the economics. Even more interesting is how family dynamics evolve in such a world. It&#8217;s all interesting but I felt less of the awe of discovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I tend not to talk about plot details and characters in when I discuss these books, but that&#8217;s not because they&#8217;re dull.  This is a fun read with interesting characters and dramatic tension.  I want to keep turning the pages and follow the twists in the road.  But in the long term I find the world chewier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Strongly Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a huge fan of A Psalm for the Wild-Built, the book that establishes the world of A Prayer for the Crown-Shy. I definitely was excited to see how Becky Chambers built on that phenomenal start. Crown-Shy takes us farther into the world and fills in more of how a society of sentients who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3227,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225\/revisions\/3227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}