{"id":682,"date":"2019-01-09T11:20:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T15:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=682"},"modified":"2019-01-09T11:21:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T15:21:00","slug":"reading-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=682","title":{"rendered":"Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Books I&#8217;ve read this week (or tried to)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Elemental Magick<\/strong> &#8211; Jacki James<br>I liked the prologue, from the book&#8217;s point of view. Then we got to the character, and at first I liked him, too. I already predicted the story: the book would provide the MC with his HEA (Happily Ever After). However, the first chapter happened so fast, and so wild, that I didn&#8217;t like it. So&#8230;.I returned it to Kindle Unlimited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hell on Earth<\/strong> &#8211; Macy Blake<br>By page four, I hated the main character for calling the cardboard waitress, &#8220;woman&#8221;. Asshole. Returned it immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Course Correction<\/strong> &#8211; Mia West<br>I liked this at first. I liked the idea of fish shifters being rescuers. But for some reason, I got bored pretty quickly. The writer knew what it was like to be on a Coast Guard cutter I suppose&#8230;but the character whose point of view the second chapter was in, he disappeared for a mysterious reason and he wouldn&#8217;t talk about it AT ALL. Did it have to do with the first chapter&#8217;s character? Not even an allusion. Returned it after the second chapter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ended up going back to <em>Shiver<\/em> after a hiatus. I&#8217;m watching as Lucus slowly starts to break down with Andrei, who&#8217;s accepting his place in Lucas&#8217; life. I&#8217;m guessing it&#8217;ll be an HEA? But the story is well-written. The characters are starting to grow on me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Started <em>Steele My Heart<\/em>, and I&#8217;m up to chapter two on that one. What is it with the differing POV&#8217;s on every chapter? This is obviously part of the romance formula. Maybe that&#8217;s why my romance stories are getting two stars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Books I&#8217;ve read this week (or tried to) Elemental Magick &#8211; Jacki JamesI liked the prologue, from the book&#8217;s point of view. Then we got to the character, and at first I liked him, too. I already predicted the story: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=682\">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":[23,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading","category-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","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=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":683,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions\/683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}