{"id":2743,"date":"2020-03-26T09:59:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T14:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=2743"},"modified":"2020-03-26T09:59:22","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T14:59:22","slug":"lady-of-shadows-by-breanna-teintze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=2743","title":{"rendered":"Lady of Shadows, by Breanna Teintze"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Review copy provided by the author, who is a personal friend\nand shares an agent with me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lady of Shadows catches up with Gray and Brix not long after\nthe events of Breanna&#8217;s first book, <em>Lord of Secrets<\/em>. They have settled\ninto a peaceful life, everything is fine, and this book is basically them\nhaving fancy iced cakes with friends while they contemplate which traveling\nmusicians should play for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wait, no. It&#8217;s not. Actually it&#8217;s not at all. Because <em>magical\nplague<\/em> and also <em>Brix&#8217;s relatives<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(I should note here that the magical plague is not at all\nlike the real plague we are dealing with right now, and I don&#8217;t think it will\nbe the least bit triggering. It is very magical and very, very different. There&#8217;s\nno way around the fact that there is a plague in this book, but it is not\nstressful, honestly.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also wanted to get Alan Rickman in this book to do the bit\nfrom <em>Galaxy Quest<\/em> where he yells at Tim Allen&#8217;s character for always\nmanaging to get his shirt off. Because Gray? Is <em>always<\/em>. Managing to get\nhis shirt off. And sometimes the rest of his clothes with it. So many magical\ntattoo moments! So much naked magician!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The thing about Breanna&#8217;s books is that they have heart,\nthey have plot, but they also have just a ridiculous amount of fun packed in.\nThis came at just the right time for me, but I suspect that any time would have\nbeen the right time, and I suspect it will be for you too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review copy provided by the author, who is a personal friend and shares an agent with me. Lady of Shadows catches up with Gray and Brix not long after the events of Breanna&#8217;s first book, Lord of Secrets. They have settled into a peaceful life, everything is fine, and this book is basically them having [&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-2743","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\/2743","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=2743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2744,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743\/revisions\/2744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}