{"id":1507,"date":"2011-06-03T09:27:18","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T09:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1507"},"modified":"2011-08-25T14:58:39","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T19:58:39","slug":"sci_fi_aftertim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2011\/06\/sci_fi_aftertim.html","title":{"rendered":"Sci Fi: Aftertime, by Sophie Littlefield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. <strong>Really good<\/strong>. Really. <\/p>\n<p>Is this being marketed as YA though? Both the sex and the violence are, I would say, significantly more graphic than anything in, for example, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/04\/fantasy_the_for.html\">Carrie Ryan<\/a> books, or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2010\/12\/fantasy_mocking.html\">Hunger Games<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/11\/yafantasy_twili.html\">Twilight<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I thought it was great but I did find myself pondering whether it could be recommended to my future 6th graders, who could read all of those others mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>EDITED TO ADD: Steph assures me this is being marketed as adult. And who doesn&#8217;t want an adult version of all the dystopian YA that&#8217;s out there now? Go read it. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. Really good. Really. Is this being marketed as YA though? Both the sex and the violence are, I would say, significantly more graphic than anything in, for example, the Carrie Ryan books, or the Hunger Games or Twilight. I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2011\/06\/sci_fi_aftertim.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":[13,27,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-readin","category-recommending"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507","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=1507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1702,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions\/1702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}