{"id":4484,"date":"2018-07-10T13:57:20","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T18:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/?p=4484"},"modified":"2018-07-10T13:57:20","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T18:57:20","slug":"jen-reads-trail-of-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/2018\/07\/10\/jen-reads-trail-of-lightning\/","title":{"rendered":"Jen reads: Trail of Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/37864158-trail-of-lightning\" style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Trail of Lightning (The Sixth World, #1)\" src=\"https:\/\/images.gr-assets.com\/books\/1522788916m\/37864158.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/37864158-trail-of-lightning\">Trail of Lightning<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/15862877.Rebecca_Roanhorse\">Rebecca Roanhorse<\/a><br \/>\nMy rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/2241270294\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A gritty, well-written debut novel! Full of imagery, this is a post-apocalyptic novel I wasn&#8217;t dreading to read (I&#8217;m not a dystopian fan), even if I was sad to hear that [spoiler title=&#8217;spoiler about TRAIL OF LIGHTNING&#8217;]my hometown of St. Louis didn&#8217;t make it through the big flood[\/spoiler]. This came in my June <a href=\"https:\/\/pagehabit.com\/accept-invite?inviter=112155&#038;platform_id=00&#038;product_id=936&#038;utm_source=referral&#038;utm_medium=link\">PageHabit<\/a> box, and it had been on my list for a while, so I was happy to open the box and find this! It&#8217;s a pretty quick read, and now I face the long wait for the next book. For all that I&#8217;ve been told I have Native American roots way, way back, I know very little about the culture or mythology, and this book introduced some really interesting characters drawing on that culture. I do wish there was a pronunciation guide somewhere, because I know the way I&#8217;m saying the names in my head isn&#8217;t right. Also, I&#8217;d like to see a map of the land that is left (though the city names give me a good idea). This is a good mix of mythological magic and broken characters trying to find their way in an unforgiving world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/76111-jennifer\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In which Jen reads TRAIL OF LIGHTNING and actually likes a post-apocalyptic novel for once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"In which Jen reads TRAIL OF LIGHTNING and actually likes a post-apocalyptic novel for once.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[71,99,73,38,41,105,51],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","has-excerpt","post-4484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-reviews","tag-debut","tag-ebook","tag-library-book","tag-magic","tag-mythology","tag-pagehabit","tag-post-apocalyptic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3A5W1-1ak","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4486,"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484\/revisions\/4486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/etoiline.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}