{"id":2236,"date":"2025-10-13T16:43:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T16:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=2236"},"modified":"2025-10-13T16:43:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T16:43:21","slug":"summer-in-orcus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=2236","title":{"rendered":"Summer in Orcus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Oh, I love this book so much.  I was hooked from the first page (see below) and it just got better and better until the sheer perfection of the ending.  I don&#8217;t want to spoil anything for anyone who hasn&#8217;t read it yet, so suffice it to say than it is a very unusual, beautiful, funny, and touching portal fantasy.  <em>Orcus<\/em> and <em>The Last Unicorn <\/em>are the two books on this entire blog that I would implore you to read as soon as possible, regardless of whether you have a child to read them to.  And if you do have a child to read them to, you&#8217;re all in for a great treat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A tiny tangential note:  I wonder what it would have looked like if Ursula Vernon (aka T. Kingfisher) had done her own illustrations for this book.  I love her art work and Lauren Henderson&#8217;s illustrations of the main character come across as very young and delicate to me in a way that doesn&#8217;t quite jibe with my vision of her.  But reasonable minds can differ and it isn&#8217;t a flaw in the glorious book.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Author:  T. Kingfisher<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Illustrator:  Lauren Henderson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251013_120529-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251013_120529-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251013_120529-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251013_120529-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251013_120529-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251013_120529-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251013_120529-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251013_120529-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, I love this book so much. I was hooked from the first page (see below) and it just got better and better until the sheer perfection of the ending. I don&#8217;t want to spoil anything for anyone who hasn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/?p=2236\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[119,222,150,768,731,732,90,691],"class_list":["post-2236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-books","tag-animals","tag-fairy-tale","tag-fractured-fairy-tale","tag-portal-fantasy","tag-summer-in-orcus","tag-t-kingfisher","tag-the-last-unicorn","tag-ursula-vernon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2268,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions\/2268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside-of-a-dog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}