{"id":27564,"date":"2015-08-08T22:47:06","date_gmt":"2015-08-09T03:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/?p=27564"},"modified":"2024-03-08T22:47:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T04:47:27","slug":"heart-of-the-dragon-gena-showalter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/heart-of-the-dragon-gena-showalter\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Heart of the Dragon, by Gena Showalter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-27565 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/heart-of-the-dragon-cover.jpg\" alt=\"heart of the dragon cover\" width=\"178\" height=\"283\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Grace Carlyle&#8217;s world was about to change . . .<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Deep in the jungle on the trail of her missing brother, Grace never expected to find a secret world populated by mythological monsters &#8212; nor guarded by a sword-wielding being whose beauty put mortal men to shame.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Darius en Kragin belongs to a race of shape-shifting warriors sworn to guard Atlantis and kill all travelers who stray within its boundaries. Yet when Grace stumbles into his realm, he finds himself tempted to betray his centuries-old vow.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Now their forbidden love will either bring their worlds together &#8212; or tear them both apart.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Review:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Formatted\">Meh. It&#8217;s so cliche, predictable, and contains so many tropes and PNR repeats that I can&#8217;t even be bothered with a real review. I&#8217;m not particularly impressed, to say the least.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grace Carlyle&#8217;s world was about to change . . . Deep in the jungle on the trail of her missing brother, Grace never expected to find a secret world populated by mythological monsters &#8212; nor guarded by a sword-wielding being whose beauty put mortal men to shame. Darius en Kragin belongs to a race of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[231,3022,267,359,106,118],"class_list":["post-27564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booksbook-review","tag-book-review","tag-gena-showalter","tag-paranormal","tag-paranormal-romance","tag-pnr","tag-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27566,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27564\/revisions\/27566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}