{"id":466,"date":"2013-08-14T02:43:15","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T02:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/?p=466"},"modified":"2013-07-26T02:45:13","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T02:45:13","slug":"the-blue-mirror-by-kathe-koja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/?p=466","title":{"rendered":"The Blue Mirror by Kathe Koja"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a style=\"font-size: 12px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.booksamillion.com\/product\/9780374308490?id=4375800262219\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"The Blue Mirror by Kathe Koja\" alt=\"Click to Buy\" src=\"http:\/\/sicacaelestas.home.insightbb.com\/booklove\/2009\/thebluemirror.jpg\" width=\"126\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Maggie flees to The Blue Mirror, a caf\u00e9 that serves as her sacred space, nightly to escape her drunk, depressed mother. There she nurses a drink and spends most of her time drawing the things and people around her, translating them into her own world, which shares a name with her caf\u00e9 hide out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s there that she meets Cole, a dreamy stranger who makes something inside her sing. Leader of a small band of street kids he\u2019s exciting, dangerous and manipulative. And he swears he loves her.<\/p>\n<p>After the questionable, uncomfortable love story of the Twilight books it\u2019s refreshing to have a fictional voyage into twisted love, framed by adult issues that teens are being forced to face more and more, and dreamy, hyper-flowing prose. This is one powerful book, despite it\u2019s short length and should be a must read in the modern overload of relationship dramas in young adult fiction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maggie flees to The Blue Mirror, a caf\u00e9 that serves as her sacred space, nightly to escape her drunk, depressed mother. There she nurses a drink and spends most of her time drawing the things and people around her, translating them into her own world, which shares a name with her caf\u00e9 hide out. It\u2019s [&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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-ya-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Eu9f-7w","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","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=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}