{"id":202,"date":"2003-03-23T22:42:42","date_gmt":"2003-03-24T03:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=202"},"modified":"2003-03-23T22:42:42","modified_gmt":"2003-03-24T03:42:42","slug":"elrod_pn_03-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2003\/03\/elrod_pn_03-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Elrod, P.N.: (03-04) Bloodcircle; Art in the Blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"200034796\"><\/a> <a name=\"link_200034796\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I picked up <strong><cite>Bloodcircle<\/cite>, the third book in P.N. Elrod&#8217;s Vampire Files<\/strong>, one night when I was waiting for the dregs of a horrible headache to pass so I could sleep. It&#8217;s short, it moves quickly, and Jack gets beat up routinely, so he feels worse than I did. In this book, Jack continues his search for the woman who made him a vampire, and we meet Jonathan Barrett, another vampire who has his own series. I have no interest in reading historical novels with Barrett, but I was interested enough in what happens to him in this time frame to pick up the next book the day after, <a id=\"vf_art\" name=\"vf_art\"><\/a><strong><cite>Art in the Blood<\/cite><\/strong>. However, Barrett doesn&#8217;t actually appear in this one; we seemed to have moved off of the beginning arc in the series (Jack is turned into a vampire and deals with it) into, possibly, one-shot mysteries. The plot of this one is basically unrelated to the prior books (though the emotional resonances from prior books remain), and a fairly standard, perfectly serviceable murder mystery it is. I have no great urge to read the next one, but I will someday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up Bloodcircle, the third book in P.N. Elrod&#8217;s Vampire Files, one night when I was waiting for the dregs of a horrible headache to pass so I could sleep. It&#8217;s short, it moves quickly, and Jack gets beat up routinely, so he feels worse than I did. In this book, Jack continues his &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2003\/03\/elrod_pn_03-04\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Elrod, P.N.: (03-04) Bloodcircle; Art in the Blood&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,15,31],"tags":[205],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-sf-and-fantasy","category-vampire-files","tag-elrod-p-n"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}