{"id":5954,"date":"2017-06-01T20:20:16","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T02:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=5954"},"modified":"2017-06-01T20:20:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T02:20:16","slug":"deep-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=5954","title":{"rendered":"Deep Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"If you are paying a lot more attention than I would expect anyone to be paying, you would expect this review to cover the second Robin Hobb book. However, I ran into a pair of related problems. Maybe a trio of interrelated problems? You decide! See, thing one is that I’m still trying to read the series in conjunction with my wife. Thing two is that I went camping last weekend. The problem with that is that while I read a lot in the woods, she really does not. Thing three, which may or may not count as an actual thing, is that I didn’t want to deal with reading comics on my convertible laptop in the woods, because it’s quite a bit harder to handle \/ keep safe than a tablet in a case would have been. The relevance of this is that comics would have slowed me down quite a bit and made it at least mildly feasible that I could read the Farseer book without pulling irretrievably far ahead.<\/p>\n

So instead, I brought five Deathlands books. The theory being that I would be out for 5 days and read about a book a day. This math was largely correct, except that I was not there for the entirety of the bookend days, and also I was building \/ tearing down on those days.<\/p>\n

Enough inside baseball! You’re definitely here because you want to know how Deep Empire<\/a> was. And I have good news: the title actually makes sense[1] this time. See, they come out of the teleporter into the Keys, where they encounter pirates, undersea volcanoes (because, post-apocalypse), dolphins, and rogue marine biologists.<\/p>\n

[1] All three did, which makes me wonder if I missed something in Shockscape<\/a>. I probably didn’t, but the impostor syndrome is especially strong right now, since I noticed my reviews used to be a lot funnier than they are these days. Everyone not reading this because they left me behind long ago? I forgive you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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