{"id":87,"date":"2007-11-16T23:41:02","date_gmt":"2007-11-17T07:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=87"},"modified":"2007-11-16T23:52:39","modified_gmt":"2007-11-17T07:52:39","slug":"mini-review-grander-than-the-sea-by-ta-pratt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/reviews\/mini-review-grander-than-the-sea-by-ta-pratt\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini-review | Grander than the Sea by T.A. Pratt"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TheGrander than the Sea<\/strong>
\nby T.A. Pratt<\/a><\/p>\n

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T.A. Pratt’s offering in The Solaris Book of New Fantasy<\/strong> is a charming, sarcastic romp of an Urban Fantasy. Chief sorcerer of the city of Felport, Marla Mason, and her partner Rondeau take an interesting and humourous approach to overcoming a loony, fatalistic sorcerer’s attempt to resurrect a non-existent God of the Sea who’s hellbent on destroying the world.
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\nPratt’s tongue-in-cheek approach to Urban Fantasy was a nice breath of fresh air and, though I’ve never read anything else by the author, I felt myself immediately drawn in to his world and comfortable with his characters. Sharp dialogue helped to flesh out the characters and gave just enough of a hint at the relationships and history between the characters that I’m curious to learn more. <\/p>\n

Most importantly, however, Pratt manages to inject serious, moral undertones to the story that hint that there’s more going on than he’s letting on. Particularly interesting is a revelation into the past of Dr. Husch, near the end of the story, that left me with a deeper appreciation for her character. Pratt did well with the pages given to him, injecting as much life, character and humour as I could reasonably expect from a short story and I’m definitely glad that Solaris decided to include his story in the anthology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Grander than the Sea by T.A. Pratt T.A. Pratt’s offering in The Solaris Book of New Fantasy is a charming, sarcastic romp of an Urban Fantasy. Chief sorcerer of the city of Felport, Marla Mason, and her partner Rondeau take an interesting and humourous approach to overcoming a loony, fatalistic sorcerer’s attempt to resurrect a… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n