{"id":22832,"date":"2024-02-01T19:45:10","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T00:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=22832"},"modified":"2024-02-01T19:45:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T00:45:10","slug":"the-ivory-tomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/the-ivory-tomb\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ivory Tomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Maybe someday she&#8217;ll break and cross a line that she can&#8217;t imagine crossing now. Maybe over the centuries she&#8217;ll lose her grip and descend into some darker place. Right now, I can tell you that we&#8217;d have three more demons devastating Eruvia without her help, and she&#8217;s not doing any more harm than you or I&#8230; We need her to get the job done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Ivory Tomb<\/strong> by Melissa Caruso, published in 2022<\/p>\n<p>Hunger let the remaining demons into the world, so now they&#8217;re all free. Three of them are on the side of humanity, more or less. Two of them are trapped in a castle, for now. That leaves four capable of unleashing unimaginable chaos. When Carnage shows up, the Rookery manages to drop her and the bridge she was standing on into a valley.<\/p>\n<p>This is the sequel to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/the-quicksilver-court\/\"><strong>The Quicksilver Court<\/strong><\/a> and completes the trilogy.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about working with helpful demons in order to defeat catastrophic demons. It&#8217;s about finding time between big events to fall in love.<\/p>\n<p>This is a trilogy that all fantasy fans will want to read.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read 6 books by Caruso.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Maybe someday she&#8217;ll break and cross a line that she can&#8217;t imagine crossing now. Maybe over the centuries she&#8217;ll lose her grip and descend into some darker place. Right now, I can tell you that we&#8217;d have three more demons devastating Eruvia without her help, and she&#8217;s not doing any more harm than you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,9,28,5],"class_list":["post-22832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-fantasy","tag-novels","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22832"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22835,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22832\/revisions\/22835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}