{"id":4169,"date":"2015-06-25T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=4169"},"modified":"2015-05-21T16:53:31","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T21:53:31","slug":"book-review-wanted-undead-or-alive-love-at-stake-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=4169","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Wanted: Undead or Alive (Love at Stake #12)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1358731112l\/11437971.jpg\" alt=\"Wanted: Undead or Alive (Love at Stake, #12)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When I saw that this would be the story of Phineas and Brynley, I have to admit I wasn&#8217;t excited. Phineas, though quite a characters, has always struck me as very immature. And Brynley is prickly. <\/p>\n<p>BUT &#8230; I actually liked it. There was better characterization in this story than I&#8217;ve seen in many of the prequels, and these two managed to set themselves apart. Turns out, Phineas has grown up in the 5 years since he was turned into a vampire and wants to be taken more seriously. And Brynley has extremely good reasons for being so prickly. <\/p>\n<p>We dove further into the shifter world in this volume, with Brynley, the daughter of a pack alpha, having to deal with the fact that apparently alpha werewolves are complete a@@($)*@. This was a different view of shifters than I&#8217;ve previously run into. I&#8217;m still not sure what I think of it. <\/p>\n<p>At any rate, after a few wobbly books, this series is back on track. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I saw that this would be the story of Phineas and Brynley, I have to admit I wasn&#8217;t excited. Phineas, though quite a characters, has always struck me as very immature. And Brynley is prickly. BUT &#8230; I actually liked it. There was better characterization in this story than I&#8217;ve seen in many of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,57,62,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-im-reading","category-fantasy-what-im-reading","category-mysterysuspense","category-romance-what-im-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4169","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=4169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4170,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4169\/revisions\/4170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}