{"id":3625,"date":"2014-05-20T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=3625"},"modified":"2014-05-19T12:05:23","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T17:05:23","slug":"3625","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=3625","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Reaver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1380743471l\/11512718.jpg\" alt=\"Reaver  (Lords of Deliverance, #5; Demonica, #10)\" \/><span style=\"color: #181818;\">This was another entertaining story in the Demonica world, this time involving Reaver &#8212; a fallen, reelevated, refallen, re&#8230; agenl who likes to break the rules. He goes after Harvester, a spy who is being tortured by Satan (a mission that is also against the rules).\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #181818;\" \/><br style=\"color: #181818;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed reading this book. I&#8217;ve enjoyed this whole series, which I&#8217;ve read back to back for the past couple of weeks. I can see why it has an average rating of well over 4 stars, even if my personal feelings about the series were 3.5. To the right person &#8212; someone who enjoys steamy supernatural romance with high action, bad-ass heroes and heroines, etc., this is probably a real jewel.<\/p>\n<p>If I had to take a guess as to why I enjoyed it without loving it the way others have, I&#8217;d say there are a two main reasons. First, these books are crass. Lots of cussing and the romantic scenes are way on the erotic side &#8212; very hard core. Second, I like heroes and heroines with a degree of relateability that was never achieved in this series. That is to say, as much fun as it was to read about demons and angels and bad-ass humans, I couldn&#8217;t picture myself in any of their places.<\/p>\n<p>Neither of these things are a failing of the books. They&#8217;re not a failing on my part either, they are just the reasons that I&#8217;m feeling 3.5 while the average is closer to 4.5. It may help other readers decide if these books are for them because if they are, you&#8217;re in for a treat.<\/p>\n<p>Rating: 3\/5<br \/>\nTitle: Reaver<br \/>\nAuthor: Larissa Ione<br \/>\nPublished December 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was another entertaining story in the Demonica world, this time involving Reaver &#8212; a fallen, reelevated, refallen, re&#8230; agenl who likes to break the rules. He goes after Harvester, a spy who is being tortured by Satan (a mission that is also against the rules).\u00a0 I enjoyed reading this book. I&#8217;ve enjoyed this whole [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,57,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-im-reading","category-fantasy-what-im-reading","category-romance-what-im-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3625"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3645,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3625\/revisions\/3645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}