{"id":2354,"date":"2015-05-29T14:27:51","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T14:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2354"},"modified":"2015-05-29T14:27:51","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T14:27:51","slug":"book-log-mogworld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2354","title":{"rendered":"Book Log &#8211; Mogworld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Mogworld<\/em> by\u00a0<span class=\"contributorNameTrigger\"><a id=\"contributorNameTriggerB003ERFI62B00A7H2EI2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Yahtzee-Croshaw\/e\/B003ERFI62\/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1\">Yahtzee Croshaw<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I downloaded this from Amazon thinking it was a self-published type of book, but on further research, the book is published by Dark Horse, so it&#8217;s legit. \u00a0The author is a game designer and a game reviewer. \u00a0So he&#8217;s got some writing cred.<\/p>\n<p>The story is comfortably whimsical without being wacky, and feels like a fresh perspective. \u00a0Our protagonist is an undead minion, pulled from a place of light back into the world to be a grotesque henchman for an evil wizard.<\/p>\n<p>The prose flows well, and the world-building is entertaining. \u00a0I recommend this one for a somewhat Terry Pratchett-like read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mogworld by\u00a0Yahtzee Croshaw I downloaded this from Amazon thinking it was a self-published type of book, but on further research, the book is published by Dark Horse, so it&#8217;s legit. \u00a0The author is a game designer and a game reviewer. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2354\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[481,513],"tags":[507],"class_list":["post-2354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-log","category-books","tag-book-log-2015"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2355,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354\/revisions\/2355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}