{"id":4331,"date":"2016-12-01T06:51:17","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T14:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=4331"},"modified":"2018-02-22T11:05:01","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T19:05:01","slug":"the-crown-conspiracy-by-michael-j-sullivan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/the-crown-conspiracy-by-michael-j-sullivan","title":{"rendered":"The Crown Conspiracy by Michael J. Sullivan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TheI picked up The Crown Conspiracy<\/em> on the Kindle for ninety-nine cents because I was looking for a fun, light-hearted fantasy novel. I was not disappointed. I would describe it as a lighter Fahfrd and the Grey Mouser, more akin to books by David Eddings, Terry Brooks, or Katherine Kurtz. You know the kind I mean, stories where the characters talk like us but wear period costumes and use magic.<\/p>\n

I know that some fantasy readers turn their noses up at such novels, but sometimes I just want to settle in for the night with an imaginative story that has a quick-paced plot and quick-witted characters, never mind the literary pretensions. And that’s exactly what you get with The Crown Conspiracy<\/em>. Sure, the dialogue is a little artificial at times, but the pace is good, the twists keep you guessing, and the characters are fun to hang around with.<\/p>\n

I especially recommend this for junior high students looking for a fun, quick read. I’ve already praised it to my 8th grade students, and I’ll be looking for a copy to add to my classroom library.<\/p>\n

I’m tempted to give this four stars because it was so fun, but I’m going to stick with three because it lacks a certain style and polish. However, I have a feeling the rest of the books in the series are only going to improve on this solid start, so I’ll be giving the next book a try.<\/p>\n

The Crown Conspiracy<\/em><\/a> by Michael J. Sullivan
\nRidan Publishing, 2008
\nPrint length: 324 pages<\/p>\n

[Note: This review was originally written on Goodreads in January of 2011 and reposted to One Catholic Life in November of 2016.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I picked up The Crown Conspiracy on the Kindle for ninety-nine cents because I was looking for a fun, light-hearted fantasy novel. I was not disappointed. I would describe it as a lighter Fahfrd and the Grey Mouser, more akin to books by David Eddings, Terry Brooks, or Katherine Kurtz. You know the kind I mean, stories where the characters talk like us but wear period costumes and use magic. I know that some fantasy readers turn their noses up at such novels, but sometimes I just want...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The Crown Conspiracy by Michael J. Sullivan","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1057,5],"tags":[36,842,158,859],"class_list":["post-4331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-review","category-books","tag-book-recommendations","tag-book-reviews","tag-fantasy-fiction","tag-michael-j-sullivan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/crown.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOucj-17R","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4331"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4336,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331\/revisions\/4336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}