I forget at this point how I stumbled upon this book. I think it may have just floated by in my twitter feed and I was immediately enamored with Sarah’s art style. It’s a style I’ve long wished I could emulate, knowing full well that I just haven’t put in the time to really learn. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But the premise of Shimmerdark<\/a><\/em> drew me in immediately and she was having a sale for the book’s launch, so\u2026 the paper white had a new book to read within a few moments, even though I had no business loading it up with something else. I hadn’t finished Circe<\/em> but I just finished Season of Crows <\/em>(more on that later)<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’m not normally a fan of first person stories. It took me a little while to get used to, and the beginning felt slow. But that didn’t keep me from reading. By the middle of the book where we’ve gotten a bit more insight into what’s going on, who Xylia is and her family, the first person just worked<\/em> and I realized that I wasn’t going to stop reading this book at this point. I’m not a fast<\/em> reader, mind, but I knew I had to finish it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And it only got more intense and better from there. It came to a bit of a fast ending, I think, but nonetheless a satisfying one. Throughout the whole thing I imagined scenes and animation, which makes sense because Sarah is an illustrator and animator. When it was done I was kind of surprised she hadn’t <\/em>done this is a graphic novel, but then it worked just as well in my imagination. <\/p>\n\n\n\n There’s some muddy parts here and there; but that may have just been me reading while tired, unable to stop flicking to the next page. I hope she writes a sequel in this world she’s created. Meanwhile, I might pick up her other book Currently<\/a><\/em>, and study her art some more because I really love it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I forget at this point how I stumbled upon this book. I think it may have just floated by in my twitter feed and I was immediately enamored with Sarah’s art style. It’s a style I’ve long wished I could emulate, knowing full well that I just haven’t put in the time to really learn. … Continue reading Shimmerdark \u2014 Sarah Mensinga<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.iantm.com\/books\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-20-at-12.04.26-AM.png?fit=800%2C800&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paUyBu-6dT","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iantm.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iantm.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iantm.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iantm.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iantm.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iantm.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iantm.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iantm.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iantm.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iantm.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}