{"id":838,"date":"2015-05-04T16:03:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T21:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=838"},"modified":"2015-05-04T16:04:54","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T21:04:54","slug":"dragons-beware-by-rafael-rosado-and-jorge-aguirre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=838","title":{"rendered":"Dragons Beware! By Rafael Rosado and Jorge Aguirre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Review copy provided by First Second Books.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dragons Beware!<\/em> has strong messages of teamwork, loyalty, and self-acceptance. Sometimes they&#8217;re strong enough to overwhelm the actual story, which doesn&#8217;t do very much that&#8217;s new with its team of varied dragon-slayers. The art is cute, there are some cute asides, and generally&#8230;yep, cute. I think this is one of the graphic novels that probably has a strong age component to its audience, because people who haven&#8217;t read a quest tale of this type before are more likely to find it interesting\/less predictable. And the age this series is aimed it is the age that can&#8217;t have read much of anything before, because they haven&#8217;t been on the planet long.<\/p>\n<p>A note: this is the second book in a series, apparently, but I haven&#8217;t read the first one and did not find that I was missing much. All of the backstory was filled in quite clearly.<\/p>\n<p>Please consider using our link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1596438789\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1596438789&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=novegazi-20&amp;linkId=RHWBFNJN3EKIMUZX\">buy <em>Dragons Beware!<\/em> from Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review copy provided by First Second Books. Dragons Beware! has strong messages of teamwork, loyalty, and self-acceptance. Sometimes they&#8217;re strong enough to overwhelm the actual story, which doesn&#8217;t do very much that&#8217;s new with its team of varied dragon-slayers. The art is cute, there are some cute asides, and generally&#8230;yep, cute. I think this is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-838","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\/838","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=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":841,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions\/841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}