{"id":266,"date":"2004-05-14T18:48:40","date_gmt":"2004-05-14T22:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=266"},"modified":"2004-05-14T18:48:40","modified_gmt":"2004-05-14T22:48:40","slug":"roberts_nora_bi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2004\/05\/roberts_nora_bi\/","title":{"rendered":"Roberts, Nora: Birthright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"link_birthright\" name=\"link_birthright\"><\/a>Another lunchtime read: <strong>Nora Roberts&#8217; <cite>Birthright<\/cite><\/strong>. I&#8217;d basically stopped reading Roberts&#8217; mainstream hardcovers, as she&#8217;s best at people forming relationships and living their lives, and I found the ObVillains distractions from that. (Her mainstream paperbacks have lately tended towards dopey New Age plots, alas, so I haven&#8217;t read the latest sets of those either.) Somewhere I saw a favorable review of <cite>Birthright<\/cite>, however, and when it turned up in the paperback exchange, I decided to give it a try.<\/p>\n<p>It started out fairly well: there were only two couples instead of the three Roberts tends toward, which kept the focus tighter; and the fallout from one character&#8217;s secret adoption is nicely nuanced, even to my hyper-sensitive reading. But the villain is really just tedious. Can&#8217;t I please get some rational bad guys for a change?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another lunchtime read: Nora Roberts&#8217; Birthright. I&#8217;d basically stopped reading Roberts&#8217; mainstream hardcovers, as she&#8217;s best at people forming relationships and living their lives, and I found the ObVillains distractions from that. (Her mainstream paperbacks have lately tended towards dopey New Age plots, alas, so I haven&#8217;t read the latest sets of those either.) Somewhere &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2004\/05\/roberts_nora_bi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Roberts, Nora: Birthright&#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":[48,12],"tags":[362],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-romance","tag-roberts-nora"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","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=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}