{"id":1509,"date":"2018-10-02T19:08:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T23:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/?p=1509"},"modified":"2018-06-17T19:09:52","modified_gmt":"2018-06-17T23:09:52","slug":"book-review-the-legend-of-the-pumpkin-thief-by-charles-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/?p=1509","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: The Legend of the Pumpkin Thief by Charles Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/legendofthepumpkintheir.JPG\" width=\"125\" height=\"193\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Noble Romance Publishing LLC, 2012<br \/>\nISBN-13: 978-1605923994<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Available: New<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although the publisher appears by name to be a romance book publishing company, this book is far from it. \u00a0Part mystery and part horror,\u00a0<em>The Legend of the Pumpkin Thief<\/em>\u00a0keeps the reader guessing and on the edge of her seat throughout the entire book. \u00a0Is there really a pumpkin thief in town stealing pumpkins, could it really just be the neighborhood bullies, or is something else going on? \u00a0As Nick tries to play detective and investigate, he has to deal with Mrs. Needlewhitter, the elderly lady that every one fears,\u00a0 as well as the bullies from school that torment him. \u00a0It seems like Nick has to put up with a lot just to find a few answers about the so-called Pumpkin Thief.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Day does a fine job keeping up the suspense and pacing the book to keep the reader wanting to keep turning pages. \u00a0There were some editing issues that could&#8217;ve been helped with another pair of eyes reading through the book, but not enough to distract me from the story at hand. \u00a0I would highly recommend reading this during the Halloween season, but it makes for a fun read year round. \u00a0This book may be aimed at tweens, but it makes a fun read for all ages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Contains: \u00a0Adult Language<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reviewed by: \u00a0Rhonda Wilson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noble Romance Publishing LLC, 2012 ISBN-13: 978-1605923994 Available: New Although the publisher appears by name to be a romance book publishing company, this book is far from it. \u00a0Part mystery and part horror,\u00a0The Legend of the Pumpkin Thief\u00a0keeps the reader guessing and on the edge of her seat throughout the entire book. \u00a0Is there really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-paranormalsupernatural"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Eu9f-ol","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1510,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions\/1510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}