{"id":547,"date":"2012-06-27T13:48:12","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T05:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/?p=547"},"modified":"2012-06-27T13:48:12","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T05:48:12","slug":"books-burn-me-deadly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/?p=547","title":{"rendered":"Books &#8211; Burn Me Deadly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The second Eddie LaCrosse novel following up <a title=\"Books \u2013 the Sword-Edged Blonde\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/?p=536\" target=\"_blank\">The Sword-Edged Blonde<\/a>. This is a slightly more assured book in style than the first. It&#8217;s a nice continuation of the character development while telling a fairly different kind of story. The magical mcGuffin of the first was a maybe-goddess incarnating amongst humans. This time it&#8217;s the perhaps mythical dragons of legend come back to haunt the waking world of &#8220;private sword jockey&#8221; Eddie. Some wry commentary on modern life slips in amongst the fantasy tropes here, adding a little bnit more depth to some pretty good escapism. Definitely worth a look if you like classic fantasy crossed with hard-boiled detective noir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second Eddie LaCrosse novel following up The Sword-Edged Blonde. This is a slightly more assured book in style than the first. It&#8217;s a nice continuation of the character development while telling a fairly different kind of story. The magical mcGuffin of the first was a maybe-goddess incarnating amongst humans. This time it&#8217;s the perhaps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,36,17,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sf-books","category-books","category-sf","category-books-sf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548,"href":"http:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions\/548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.a-cubed.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}