{"id":2278,"date":"2013-01-04T09:34:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T16:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=2278"},"modified":"2013-01-04T09:34:19","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T16:34:19","slug":"beauty-in-ruins-reviews-the-millennial-sword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=2278","title":{"rendered":"<em>Beauty in Ruins<\/em> Reviews <em>The Millennial Sword<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to throw up a quick link to the <em>Beauty in Ruins<\/em> book review blog, which has posted <a href=\"http:\/\/beauty-in-ruins.blogspot.ca\/2013\/01\/the-millennial-sword-by-shannon.html\">a very kind review<\/a> of <em>The Millennial Sword<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s a fun story, lighthearted and humorous where it can be, but serious and action-packed where it needs to be. Given the rather fantastic premise, it&#8217;s a remarkably believable story, owing as much to Viv&#8217;s character as to the way in which Phillips pays equal attention to both worlds. In that respect, she makes the most of her setting, using the real San Francisco as a solid backdrop, as opposed to just going with a generic big city. I&#8217;ve never been, but the setting feels genuine, as if you could use the story as a roadmap around town.<\/p>\n<p>It also needs to be said that despite Viv being armed and designated for a special role, she&#8217;s no victim of prophecy or destiny. This is not one of those stories where things happen despite the characters, but because of them. Well-told, with engaging characters, and a generous mix of humour, romance, and adventure, this is a book that I suspect will have a lot of cross-genre appeal. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to throw up a quick link to the Beauty in Ruins book review blog, which has posted a very kind review of The Millennial Sword: It&#8217;s a fun story, lighthearted and humorous where it can be, but serious and action-packed where it needs to be. Given the rather fantastic premise, it&#8217;s a remarkably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2279,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions\/2279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}