{"id":9275,"date":"2015-03-22T18:15:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T00:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/?p=9275"},"modified":"2021-12-02T12:14:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T18:14:41","slug":"annoying-closeup-guy-reading-challenge-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/annoying-closeup-guy-reading-challenge-wrap-up\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Annoying close-up guy&#8217; reading challenge wrap-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-17-at-09.40.16.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9231 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-17-at-09.40.16.png\" alt=\"Annoying closeup guy\" width=\"946\" height=\"366\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So, that&#8217;s another reading <a title=\"This week\u2019s reading challenge\" href=\"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/?p=9230\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">challenge <\/a>under the belt. You can find the reviews here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a title=\"Review of Prophecy Foretold (The Prophecy Chronicles #1), by Ron Hartman\" href=\"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/?p=9239\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prophecy Foretold<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Review of Shadewright &amp; Shadowslave (Shadewright Cycle, #1-2), by Dean McMillin\" href=\"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/?p=9245\">Shadewright<\/a> (along with <em>Shadowslave<\/em>)<br \/>\n<a title=\"Review of Living Dead Girl &amp; Stalking Dead (The Vampire Hunter #1-2), by S. C. Reynolds\" href=\"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/?p=9260\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stalking Dead<\/a> (along with <em>Living Dead Girl<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You&#8217;ll notice that <em>The Mark of Saturn<\/em> is not listed. I&#8217;m afraid that I wasn&#8217;t able to finish that one. You can find my DNF &#8216;review&#8217; <a title=\"here\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/457994472?book_show_action=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>, on Goodreads. It turns out I have an early edition, which was titled <em>Lumen: Blood Luminary<\/em> but was the first edition of the same book. However, I can only assume (or desperately hope) that the subsequent editions improved on that first one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of the three books\u00a0that I read (five if you include the tag alongs),\u00a0<em>Shadewright<\/em> was the star. It was a tad slow and ended on a cliffhanger, but it had one really cute character, strong writing and an interesting plot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All in all, I&#8217;ll call it a success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, that&#8217;s another reading challenge under the belt. You can find the reviews here: Prophecy Foretold Shadewright (along with Shadowslave) Stalking Dead (along with Living Dead Girl) You&#8217;ll notice that The Mark of Saturn is not listed. I&#8217;m afraid that I wasn&#8217;t able to finish that one. You can find my DNF &#8216;review&#8217; here, on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[205,231,37],"class_list":["post-9275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-challenges","tag-annoying-closeup-guy-challenge","tag-book-review","tag-challenges-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9275","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9275"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22978,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9275\/revisions\/22978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}