{"id":1707,"date":"2019-03-05T11:12:13","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T16:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/?p=1707"},"modified":"2019-02-12T15:18:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T20:18:19","slug":"book-review-damsel-by-elana-k-arnold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/?p=1707","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Damsel by Elana K. Arnold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/download.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1708 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/download.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"179\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/download.jpg 179w, https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/download-47x74.jpg 47w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 179px) 100vw, 179px\" \/><\/a>Content Warning: This book is a dark, deep fairy tale about Prince Charming (and his kingdom) grooming his damsel-in-distress for abuse.<\/p>\n<p>After rescuing Ama from a dragon as is the traditional rite for a king in this land, Prince Emory and his entire kingdom begin slowly and methodically training her to be an abused non-person fit only to be a sex toy and an incubator of the next king. This book has literal speeches about how a woman\/damsel is nothing but a vessel, a vase to hold the king&#8217;s seed\/glory.<\/p>\n<p>This book is beautifully written, poignant, and terrible. Lovely, but insidious, Arnold weaves a tale that readers know is going to go terribly wrong, and yet we still find ourselves surprised at how deep a hole Ama\/the reader ends up in.<\/p>\n<p>Definitely recommended, but only for older audiences.<\/p>\n<p>Contains: rape, sexual and emotional abuse, violence, animal abuse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Content Warning: This book is a dark, deep fairy tale about Prince Charming (and his kingdom) grooming his damsel-in-distress for abuse. After rescuing Ama from a dragon as is the traditional rite for a king in this land, Prince Emory and his entire kingdom begin slowly and methodically training her to be an abused non-person [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-fantasy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Eu9f-rx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1709,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions\/1709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}