{"id":506,"date":"2013-09-20T19:36:02","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T19:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/?p=506"},"modified":"2013-09-17T19:39:19","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T19:39:19","slug":"frozen-by-melissa-de-la-cruz-and-michael-johnston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/?p=506","title":{"rendered":"Frozen by Melissa de la Cruz and Michael Johnston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/frozen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-507\" alt=\"frozen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/frozen.jpg\" width=\"194\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a>Can I just start with: I absolutely loved this book? It&#8217;s not perfect, the pace is off, more heavily loaded in the back end making it feel rushed. The leads are a little too perfect and powerful at times.<\/p>\n<p>But there are pirates, and dragons, and psychic\/magical powers, fae, and it&#8217;s all set in a dystopian world where ice almost completely covers the world.<\/p>\n<p>Nat escaped from a program for \u201cspecial\u201d kids (aka a military training complex\/asylum for kids with manifested powers) and now hides as a blackjack dealer in New Vegas, where she&#8217;s not the only one with secrets. Wes is a military vet, very Han Solo, at the ripe old age of 16. He has a team to support, and the last thing he needs is a job smuggling another mutant out on a wild goose chase for \u201cThe Blue\u201d, some epic fantasy land where food is plentiful and the sun still shines on grass not ice. But he can&#8217;t help thinking there&#8217;s something other about Nat.<\/p>\n<p>Frozen is a wild mash up of fantasy and end-of-the-world with a good dose of hardened teens, old before their time. Harsher and darker than Cruz&#8217; Blue Bloods books, it&#8217;s also a more delicately beautiful tale.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t wait for the next book!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can I just start with: I absolutely loved this book? It&#8217;s not perfect, the pace is off, more heavily loaded in the back end making it feel rushed. The leads are a little too perfect and powerful at times. But there are pirates, and dragons, and psychic\/magical powers, fae, and it&#8217;s all set in a [&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":[18,65,20],"tags":[91,40],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-fae","category-ya-books","tag-heart-of-dread-series","tag-melissa-de-la-cruz"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Eu9f-8a","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","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=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}