{"id":563,"date":"2007-11-28T18:38:16","date_gmt":"2007-11-28T18:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=563"},"modified":"2024-02-04T17:21:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T22:21:21","slug":"wilks_02","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2007\/11\/wilks_02\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilks, Eileen: (02) <cite>Mortal Danger<\/cite>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading <strong>Eileen Wilks&#8217; <cite>Mortal Danger<\/cite><\/strong>, the sequel to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/weblog\/2007\/10\/wilks_01.php\"><cite>Tempting Danger<\/cite><\/a>, I&#8217;m doing something unprecedented on this booklog and moving the series out of the category where it&#8217;s shelved in bookstores. Yes, if you&#8217;re looking for these, you&#8217;ll have to go into the romance section, but with this book the series moves firmly into fantasy territory, and continuing to call it a romance would create incorrect reader expectations.<\/p>\n<p>(I realize the covers have, as Chad said, girl cooties all over them. Nevertheless: not a romance novel.)<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to loose ends from the last book, Lily Yu finds herself the victim of a puzzling demonic attack. This kicks off a fantasy\/adventure plot which moves along nicely and allows additional worldbuilding, including more about the lupi&#8217;s culture and an interestingly different Dis. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll be putting these on any best-of lists, but they&#8217;re competently entertaining and if you&#8217;re in the mood for something urban or paranormal, you could do far worse than to give them a try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading Eileen Wilks&#8217; Mortal Danger, the sequel to Tempting Danger, I&#8217;m doing something unprecedented on this booklog and moving the series out of the category where it&#8217;s shelved in bookstores. Yes, if you&#8217;re looking for these, you&#8217;ll have to go into the romance section, but with this book the series moves firmly into fantasy &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2007\/11\/wilks_02\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wilks, Eileen: (02) <cite>Mortal Danger<\/cite>&#8220;<\/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":[48,15,35],"tags":[438],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-sf-and-fantasy","category-world-of-the-lupi","tag-wilks-eileen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","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=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2766,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions\/2766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}