{"id":123,"date":"2010-01-05T15:43:50","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T23:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=123"},"modified":"2010-11-13T18:31:44","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T02:31:44","slug":"the-barbed-coil-by-j-v-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"The Barbed Coil  by J. V. Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"workCoverImage alignleft\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0446606235.01._SX140_SY225_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg\" alt=\"The Barbed Coil by J.V. Jones\" width=\"108\" height=\"180\" \/>This book is set in a fantasy world where magic comes through illuminations.  The idea is interesting, the text involving the illuminations is well told and interesting.  The rest of the book is a bit bland.<\/p>\n<p>The main character, Tessa, is from our world, who is drawn into another world and drawn into a quest to free a magical device, I&#8217;m being vague to avoid giving away too much.  The characters are rather one-dimensional.  Tessa seems all to accepting of her situation n this new world.  Most of hte minor characters seem focused on one objective.<\/p>\n<p>The plot is a simple plot rehashed in many other fantasy stories, but does come to life when the illuminations are drawn.  I felt the book was just a device to carry off the idea.  As it is, the story isn&#8217;t badly told, but it does seem like it could be a lot more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book is set in a fantasy world where magic comes through illuminations. The idea is interesting, the text involving the illuminations is well told and interesting. The rest of the book is a bit bland. The main character, Tessa, is from our world, who is drawn into another world and drawn into a quest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}