{"id":2449,"date":"2016-02-19T02:42:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T02:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2449"},"modified":"2016-02-23T12:14:19","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T12:14:19","slug":"book-log-15-hells-super-circles-in-hell-book-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2449","title":{"rendered":"Book Log #15 &#8211; Hell&#8217;s Super (Circles in Hell Book 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Hell&#8217;s Super (Circles in Hell Book 1)<\/em> by Mark Cain [Amazon, Kindle]<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea why I bought this book.  Maybe it was a &#8220;If you liked X, you might like this!&#8221; kind of thing on Amazon.  Possibly because I like Scott Meyer, they directed me to this other whimsical, science fiction-y, self-published author.<\/p>\n<p>And for some reason, I bought the whole four-book series.  Possibly because it was $11 for all four.  To paraphrase Dennis Miller, if they&#8217;d really wanted to screw me, they could&#8217;ve given me <em>5<\/em> books for $11.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of the reviews on Amazon are 5 stars.  I guess the author has a lot of friends.<\/p>\n<p>The book is amateurish, and not particularly clever.  Most of the characters are famous people, which is kind of a pet peeve of mine.  There is a romance that is incredibly one dimensional.  The story has no stakes, no tension. I don&#8217;t understand the protagonist&#8217;s motivations. Nothing matters in Hell, and nothing matters to the reader.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m guessing that Mark Cain is a pseudonym.  Mark of Cain.  Get it?  That&#8217;s what this book is like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hell&#8217;s Super (Circles in Hell Book 1) by Mark Cain [Amazon, Kindle] I have no idea why I bought this book. Maybe it was a &#8220;If you liked X, you might like this!&#8221; kind of thing on Amazon. Possibly because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=2449\">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":[512,513,510],"tags":[509],"class_list":["post-2449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-books","category-kindle","tag-book-log-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449","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=2449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2455,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions\/2455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}