{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/678abf8916bc7a854524e06f/69864ca7e4c954d6d9273191?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"199: Forty Shades of Green - \"The Ground She Walks Upon\" by Meagan McKinney","description":"<p>And now we arrive in Ireland. Finally. To discuss THE GROUND SHE WALKS UPON by MEAGAN MCKINNEY (1994).</p><p>Ravenna is a social outcast who is also magically bound via geish to the Lord of her home, County Lir. Either Niall, at 20 years her senior, woos her, a lowly peasant, or his family looses the land they occupy in Ireland. </p><p>What is the point of magic if it is just friendship or whatever? Does good romance determine a good romance, or is it all the other stuff? Is there ever such a thing as a good aristocrat?</p><p>Trigger warnings: We talk about death and political violence.</p>","author_name":"Whoa!mance: Romance, Feminism, and Ourselves"}