{"id":910,"date":"2025-01-27T21:28:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T02:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/?p=910"},"modified":"2025-01-27T22:58:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T03:58:28","slug":"rating-to-a-darker-shore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/2025\/01\/27\/rating-to-a-darker-shore\/","title":{"rendered":"Rating: To A Darker Shore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/Clr6TQ1.jpeg\" alt=\"null\" \/><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span class=\"Formatted\">Plain, poor, plus-size, and autistic, Alesta grew up trying to convince her kingdom that she\u2019s too useful to be sacrificed like so many of their country\u2019s poor to appease the infernal monster across the poison sea in hell.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>When Alesta\u2019s attempt to prove herself with inventions goes awry, her best friend and heir to the throne, Kyrian, takes the blame expecting leniency\u2014and ends up tithed in her place.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>To end the sacrifices forever, Alesta plans to kill the monster that killed her friend. She travels to the depths of hell only to find Kyrian, alive, but monstrously transformed.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>There\u2019s no escaping hell or their deeper feelings for one another, and the farther they go, the closer they come to uncovering a truth about the tithings that threatens to invoke the wrath of not only monsters but the gods as well.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Genres<\/strong>: Fiction, Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, LGBT+ (Lesbian representation), Disability (Autism Spectrum Disorder representation)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ratings:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">3 \/ 5 \u2b50<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">1 \/ 5 \ud83c\udf36\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Star ratings weighed via Goodreads&#8217;s system<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Steam \/ Spice ratings weighed via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.romance.io\/steamrating\">Romance.io<\/a>&#8216;s system<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plain, poor, plus-size, and autistic, Alesta grew up trying to convince her kingdom that she\u2019s too useful to be sacrificed like so many of their country\u2019s poor to appease the infernal monster across the poison sea in hell. When Alesta\u2019s attempt to prove herself with inventions goes awry, her best friend and heir to the&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/2025\/01\/27\/rating-to-a-darker-shore\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rating: To A Darker Shore<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[348,51,86,106,111,347,176,260,308,342],"class_list":["post-910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-autism-spectrum-disorder","tag-book-rating","tag-disability","tag-fantasy","tag-fiction","tag-lesbian","tag-lgbt","tag-romance","tag-three-star-rating","tag-young-adult"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":915,"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions\/915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}