{"id":23861,"date":"2025-01-11T10:21:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T15:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=23861"},"modified":"2025-07-22T11:06:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T15:06:27","slug":"to-guard-against-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/to-guard-against-the-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"To Guard Against the Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;AllThereIs did not forget, nor forgive. There were &#8216;entities&#8217; within it, Sira&#8217;d warned, who reacted to threat. When the Hoveny breached their home with devices designed to feed from its energy, those entities responded. Their defense had ended the vast Hoveny Concentrix.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>To Guard Against the Dark<\/strong> by Julie E. Czerneda, published in 2017<\/p>\n<p>After some number of days the being upset at the loss of Sira, Jason finally comes out of his room to talk to his friend Huido. A Rugheran has visited him, but who knows what it wants. Lydia Bowman wants to know about all the Hoveny artifacts that have disappeared. Then Bowman gives him a new purpose &#8212; find out who&#8217;d been behind the Assemblers attacking the Clan.<\/p>\n<p>This is the sequel to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/the-gate-to-futures-past\/\"><strong>The Gate to Futures Past<\/strong><\/a>. It wraps up the novels in <strong>The Clan Chronicles<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about people pursuing mysteries and bad guys in, in one case, a new body.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a worthy conclusion, which everyone comes together for including the delightful Drapsk.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read 19 books by Czerneda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;AllThereIs did not forget, nor forgive. There were &#8216;entities&#8217; within it, Sira&#8217;d warned, who reacted to threat. When the Hoveny breached their home with devices designed to feed from its energy, those entities responded. Their defense had ended the vast Hoveny Concentrix.&#8221; To Guard Against the Dark by Julie E. Czerneda, published in 2017 [&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":[7,28,5,8],"class_list":["post-23861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-novels","tag-review","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23861","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=23861"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25205,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23861\/revisions\/25205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}