{"id":5559,"date":"2013-09-01T08:43:44","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T00:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=5559"},"modified":"2013-09-01T08:43:44","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T00:43:44","slug":"dont-miss-this-engrossing-novel-about-the-science-of-dragons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2013\/09\/01\/dont-miss-this-engrossing-novel-about-the-science-of-dragons\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#039;t miss this engrossing novel about the science of dragons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though the novel starts a bit slowly, the adventure heats up once our characters arrive in dragon country and Isabella starts to come into her own. This is the first book in a trilogy, and Brennan isn&#8217;t afraid to take major risks with beloved characters you might be hoping to have around for a while \u2014 and that is a good sign.<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s truly great about this novel is the seamless merging of fantasy themes and incredibly realistic scientific and social details. Come for the dragon adventure \u2014 because there&#8217;s a lot of it. But stay for characters whose stories feel as real as Marie Curie&#8217;s.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/dont-miss-this-engrossing-novel-about-the-science-of-d-1214611710\">Don&#8217;t miss this engrossing novel about the science of dragons<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though the novel starts a bit slowly, the adventure heats up once our characters arrive in dragon country and Isabella starts to come into her own. This is the first book in a trilogy, and Brennan isn&#8217;t afraid to take major risks with beloved characters you might be hoping to have around for a while &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2013\/09\/01\/dont-miss-this-engrossing-novel-about-the-science-of-dragons\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Don&#039;t miss this engrossing novel about the science of dragons&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}