{"id":2103,"date":"2018-04-04T16:01:08","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T21:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=2103"},"modified":"2018-04-04T16:01:21","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T21:01:21","slug":"scarlett-hart-monster-hunter-by-marcus-sedgwick-and-thomas-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=2103","title":{"rendered":"Scarlett Hart, Monster Hunter, by Marcus Sedgwick and Thomas Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Review copy provided by First Second Books.<\/p>\n<p>Scarlett Hart lives in an Edwardian-esque world filled with monsters and horrors. Ghosts, mummies, tentacle beasts, it&#8217;s all there. Underage people aren&#8217;t supposed to be monster hunters, but since the death of her parents, she and her butler Napoleon White have been carrying on the family business, with Napoleon delivering their catches\/kills to the Academy. (The acronym for the monster hunting academy convolutes itself to be TRAPEZE, which tells you a lot about the convolutions in this book and which ones the author considers clever.)<\/p>\n<p>This is a graphic novel aimed at young readers. It&#8217;s adventure fantasy. There are gadgets, there is loyalty and frustration at the establishment, there are conveniently absent parents to be avenged. There are a lot of stock elements, which is not wrong, just&#8230;not a lot that is new here. Which perhaps its young audience won&#8217;t mind, and it goes quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Please consider using our link to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1626720266\/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=novegazi-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=1626720266&amp;linkId=18de83dc6d3859537268e3772ba52d27\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">buy <em>Scarlett Hart, Monster Hunter<\/em> from Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review copy provided by First Second Books. Scarlett Hart lives in an Edwardian-esque world filled with monsters and horrors. Ghosts, mummies, tentacle beasts, it&#8217;s all there. Underage people aren&#8217;t supposed to be monster hunters, but since the death of her parents, she and her butler Napoleon White have been carrying on the family business, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-2103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bookses-precious"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2103"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2110,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions\/2110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}