{"id":2434,"date":"2016-02-08T02:43:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T02:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2434"},"modified":"2016-02-08T02:43:33","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T02:43:33","slug":"book-log-9-the-magician-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2434","title":{"rendered":"Book Log #9 &#8211; The Magician King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Magician King by Lev Grossman [<em>Paperback, Little Shop of Stories<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>The sequel to <em>The Magicians<\/em>, this is another sharp fantasy novel.  It continues to be a blend of post-graduate <em>Harry Potter<\/em> and <em>Narnia<\/em>.  Couldn&#8217;t put it down.<\/p>\n<p>There was one scene that was difficult to read in its darkness, and it gives me hesitation to recommend it to my almost-13 year old because of it.  But&#8230; it does succeed in being seriously dark and gritty fantasy as a result.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve already got the next one on hand to start.  No break in continuity!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Magician King by Lev Grossman [Paperback, Little Shop of Stories] The sequel to The Magicians, this is another sharp fantasy novel. It continues to be a blend of post-graduate Harry Potter and Narnia. Couldn&#8217;t put it down. There was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2434\">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":[481,513,511],"tags":[509],"class_list":["post-2434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-log","category-books","category-little-shop-of-stories","tag-book-log-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434","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=2434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2435,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434\/revisions\/2435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}