{"id":1099,"date":"2026-07-03T16:13:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T20:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=1099"},"modified":"2026-07-03T16:13:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T20:13:16","slug":"review-apprentice-of-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=1099","title":{"rendered":"Review: Apprentice of the Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DNF<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/anubis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/anubis-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/anubis-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/anubis-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/anubis-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/anubis-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/anubis-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/anubis.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I didn&#8217;t realize this was YA until I started reading it. I&#8217;ve read YA&#8211;and wrote it. They&#8217;re fast reads, so I decided to stick with it for a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Imagine contemporary technology used with an Egyptian backdrop? I had a hard time with that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The writing is pretty good, crisp and tight. But it&#8217;s a female protag, a Romantasy element, present tense, and first person who seems to accept everything as it happens. These are red lines for me. When a mystery is added to the story, I didn&#8217;t care. Too much stuff going on, and I know she&#8217;s not going to solve everything in 80 or so pages. This was a good teaser novel for the first book in the series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I don&#8217;t have time for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNF I didn&#8217;t realize this was YA until I started reading it. I&#8217;ve read YA&#8211;and wrote it. They&#8217;re fast reads, so I decided to stick with it for a while. Imagine contemporary technology used with an Egyptian backdrop? I had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=1099\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1101,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions\/1101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}