{"id":1371,"date":"2010-02-06T09:22:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T09:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2011-10-29T14:03:13","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T19:03:13","slug":"yafantasy_the_p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2010\/02\/yafantasy_the_p.html","title":{"rendered":"YA\/Fantasy: The Prophecy of the Sisters, by Michelle Zink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not badly written. The stuff with the little brother is poignantly told.  Some of it is quite spooky.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, this felt like a book in which very little happens other than the reveal of the ancient curse\/prophecy&#8230;and it just&#8230;ENDS.  Very much a &#8220;book 1&#8221; but even in a series, shouldn&#8217;t each book have its own purpose?  I felt like this one really tailed off at the end in setup for book 2.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s something to be said for cliffhangers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not badly written. The stuff with the little brother is poignantly told. Some of it is quite spooky. On the other hand, this felt like a book in which very little happens other than the reveal of the ancient curse\/prophecy&#8230;and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2010\/02\/yafantasy_the_p.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-readin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2226,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions\/2226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}