{"id":362,"date":"2005-10-03T21:05:30","date_gmt":"2005-10-04T01:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=362"},"modified":"2005-10-03T21:05:30","modified_gmt":"2005-10-04T01:05:30","slug":"james_muchado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2005\/10\/james_muchado\/","title":{"rendered":"James, Eloisa: (01) Much Ado About You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Eloisa James&#8217; <cite>Much Ado About You<\/cite><\/strong> was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/rachelmanija\/207454.html\">mentioned favorably by Rachel Brown<\/a> recently, and I picked it up as a lunchtime book while I was getting the new Diana Gabaldon (because I am not hauling a 980 page book back and forth to work). As light lunchtime reading, I have no complaints.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first in a Regency romance series about four sisters; those sibling relationships are the distinguishing characteristic of the book. The romance moves a touch faster than I&#8217;d like, but has its good points; the overall plot also had a few elements that didn&#8217;t go as I&#8217;d expected, which is particularly a plus in the romance genre. A number of the secondary characters are also very interesting and I look forward to seeing more of them, though I suspect that a couple of them are going to be taken in a direction that strikes me as awfully tricky (I&#8217;ll still read the story even if I&#8217;m right; James seems a lot less frothy than Regency authors can be&mdash;and while frothy is all well and good for certain moods, it&#8217;s not what would be called for in that case). I&#8217;ll be checking out James&#8217; backlist from the library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eloisa James&#8217; Much Ado About You was mentioned favorably by Rachel Brown recently, and I picked it up as a lunchtime book while I was getting the new Diana Gabaldon (because I am not hauling a 980 page book back and forth to work). As light lunchtime reading, I have no complaints. This is the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2005\/10\/james_muchado\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;James, Eloisa: (01) Much Ado About You&#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":[48,75,12],"tags":[252],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-four-sisters","category-romance","tag-james-eloisa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","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=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}